Application Analyzer
The Application Analyzer is a comprehensive solution designed to provide AppSec teams with critical visibility and actionable insights into the security and compliance posture of business-critical applications. It identifies applications whose security profiles have changed—whether due to new deployments, code modifications, third-party updates, or scanning tool findings—allowing security teams to proactively investigate, correlate changes with development and infrastructure events, and prioritize remediation efforts to prevent risk drift and emerging vulnerabilities. By highlighting high-risk business-critical applications, Application Analyzer enables organizations to focus remediation and mitigation efforts on the assets that represent the highest combination of threat likelihood and business impact, thereby maximizing the return on security investments and aligning closely with risk-based governance practices. Furthermore, the platform monitors compliance risks within critical applications, providing detailed insights into gaps against internal and external standards such as PCI, HIPAA, or SOC 2, and facilitating collaborative remediation with GRC teams to ensure audit readiness and minimize regulatory exposure. Application Analyzer also ensures that newly deployed applications are promptly incorporated into security programs, enforcing baseline security requirements and preventing the emergence of unmanaged or non-compliant applications that could introduce unseen vulnerabilities. Finally, it identifies applications lacking Static Application Security Testing (SAST) coverage, enabling security teams to close critical gaps in the development pipeline, promote secure coding practices, and reduce vulnerabilities early in the software development lifecycle. Through these capabilities, Application Analyzer empowers organizations to achieve continuous security assurance, maintain regulatory compliance, reduce operational risk, and foster a secure-by-design approach across the entire application landscape.
Sightline: Applications
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Description
1. Business Critical Apps Whose Security Profile Changed
Changes in the security profile of business-critical applications — whether due to deployments, code updates, third-party libraries, or new scan findings — can introduce unexpected risks. AppSec engineers investigate these changes by correlating them with CI/CD activities or infrastructure modifications to quickly assess and prioritize necessary remediation. Early detection of these shifts ensures critical assets remain protected, preventing vulnerabilities from silently escalating.
2. High Risk Business Critical Apps
This identifies apps that combine high technical risk (like vulnerabilities or misconfigurations) with high business impact, making them urgent priorities. AppSec engineers focus their limited resources on mitigating these threats quickly by patching, hardening configurations, or isolating apps. Addressing these risks helps prevent major breaches and aligns security efforts with business-critical needs, improving compliance and risk management strategies.
3. Business Critical Apps with Compliance Risk
Business-critical apps that violate internal or external compliance standards (like PCI, HIPAA, or SOC 2) pose regulatory and financial risks. AppSec engineers work to pinpoint and remediate these gaps by collaborating with GRC teams and ensuring policy adherence. Addressing these issues supports audit readiness, avoids legal penalties, and enhances trust with customers and stakeholders.
4. New Apps Deployed
Each new app deployment potentially expands the attack surface, making early security intervention crucial. AppSec engineers proactively onboard new apps into scanning, threat modeling, and policy enforcement workflows, ensuring they meet security baselines from the start. This approach prevents unmanaged risks, supports secure development practices, and reduces technical debt later in the app’s lifecycle.
5. Apps with No SAST
Applications lacking Static Application Security Testing (SAST) are at higher risk of harboring undetected vulnerabilities. AppSec teams identify these gaps in coverage, work with development teams to enable SAST tooling, and monitor adoption trends. Establishing consistent SAST practices improves developer security awareness, catches critical issues earlier, and enhances overall security posture.
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Sightline: API BOM
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Detailed Description of the Chart
This view consists of three stat cards summarizing critical insights from the API BOM:
Apps w/ Critical API Vuln
Number of applications that currently have at least one API endpoint with a critical vulnerability.
Critical Vuln
Total count of critical severity vulnerabilities detected across the API layer.
Vuln API End Points
Total number of unique API endpoints affected by at least one vulnerability.
Impact on AppSec Operations
This card directly supports API risk governance and operational security:
Improved API Posture Awareness:
Offers quick visibility into API layer attack surfaces, enabling faster detection of exposed functionality.
Shift-Left on API Design:
Drives upstream improvement in secure API design, spec validation, and schema hygiene.
Enables Focused Testing:
Security testing resources can be concentrated on critical, vulnerable APIs, optimizing effort and reducing false positives.
Improves App/API Inventory Hygiene:
Enforces better tracking of API-to-application mapping, foundational for API BOM (Bill of Materials) integrity.
What Are the Decisions It Drives?
Which apps and APIs need immediate remediation?
The 3 apps with critical API vulnerabilities must be prioritized for hotfixes or mitigations.
How widespread are critical API vulnerabilities?
With 30 vulnerable endpoints, the decision may be to prioritize remediation by usage, exposure (public/internal), and criticality.
Should runtime protection be enabled for vulnerable APIs?
If patching is delayed, AppSec may recommend virtual patching via WAFs, API gateways, or RASP tools.
Are API security policies working?
A growing trend in this card would prompt review of API scanning tools, testing depth, and pre-deployment guardrails.
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Sightline: Dynamic Application Security
This sightline provides visibility into the dynamic security posture of applications by surfacing key DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing) metrics and trends. It enables IT and Security teams to monitor, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities discovered during runtime analysis.
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Alerts
Apps With Critical API Vulnerabilities
The Apps With Critical API Vulnerabilities alert highlights applications with API endpoints that have critical vulnerabilities, enabling AppSec teams to prioritize remediation efforts. By identifying these high-risk APIs, teams can focus on mitigating threats that pose the greatest potential impact. This alert supports proactive risk reduction by driving immediate actions such as patching, virtual patching, or isolating vulnerable APIs. Additionally, it helps organizations maintain compliance with security policies and improve the overall resilience of their API ecosystem.
Critical Vulnerabilities Discovered in API Endpoints
The Critical Vulnerabilities Discovered in API Endpoints alert identifies API endpoints with critical vulnerabilities, enabling AppSec teams to take immediate action to mitigate risks. By focusing on these high-severity issues, teams can prioritize patching, apply virtual patches, or isolate affected endpoints to prevent exploitation. This alert enhances the organization's ability to address critical threats, maintain compliance, and strengthen the overall security posture of the API ecosystem.
Vulnerable API Endpoints
The Vulnerable API Endpoints alert identifies API endpoints affected by vulnerabilities of varying severities, providing AppSec teams with a clear view of the attack surface. By pinpointing these endpoints, teams can prioritize remediation efforts based on severity, exposure, and business impact. This alert supports proactive risk management by enabling targeted patching, enhanced testing, or runtime protections, ensuring the security and resilience of critical API functionalities.
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