Why ASPM Requires an Independent Approach: Exploring the Role of ASPM vs. CNAPP
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024
Exponential growth in code in the age of AI, an unmanageable attack surface as a result of Cloud + DevOps, accelerated development cycles, and tool sprawl have overwhelmed both development and security teams, making it impossible to effectively pinpoint and fix the most critical issues that have the highest impact with the limited amount of time and resources organizations have.
Application security continues to evolve as modern development practices and cloud native adoption such as containerization, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and GitOps have blurred the line between application and infrastructure. As a result, application security continues to converge with cloud security.
Point solutions that only provide partial capabilities - like scanning custom code and open source libraries - will no longer be sufficient to identify and analyze risk holistically in context across the software development lifecycle (SDLC), leaving critical gaps in security coverage. Having multiple point solutions, often owned by different teams, also leads to duplication of efforts, causing developers to drown in confusion on what to fix and who to trust.