Application Overview

Application Overview

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🎯 1. Day in the Life of an AppSec Engineer Using This Chart

An AppSec engineer will:

• Morning check-in:

  • Review all applications, their Business Ratings, and vulnerability counts at a glance.

  • Focus first on high-business-impact apps (e.g., Application Name 1 with score 98).

• Prioritize triage:

  • Investigate applications and repositories with the highest number of Critical (red) and High (orange) issues.

• Pipeline health review:

  • Quickly verify which PBOM scans (e.g., SAST, Secrets, PII, Cloud security) are active for each app and repo via the icons.

• Assign actions:

  • If an app or repo has critical issues and incomplete PBOM coverage, escalate for immediate remediation, or flag for security champions.

• Prepare reports:

  • Pull quick numbers for weekly reporting to AppSec leadership or development teams — "Top 5 apps with most criticals."

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⚙️ 2. Impact on AppSec Operation

This dashboard view enables:

• Unified Risk Visibility:

  • Shows the risk posture at the application level with repo drill-down — allowing aggregation and prioritization.

• Faster SLA tracking:

  • Instantly detect apps that may violate vulnerability remediation SLA based on open critical/high findings.

• Pipeline Assurance:

  • AppSec engineers can easily validate whether full security testing is integrated across Dev → Build → Deploy pipelines.

• Business-Context Prioritization:

  • Business rating ensures security teams focus on high-value or customer-facing apps first, not just tech debt.

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🚀 3. What Decisions This Chart Drives

• Which apps are most at risk?

  • Based on critical vulnerability counts combined with Business Rating.

• Where is PBOM coverage incomplete?

  • Missing icons for phases (e.g., no cloud security scan) triggers follow-up.

• Which repos under an app need immediate action?

  • Repo-level breakdown shows how risk is distributed internally.

• Where should resources be allocated?

  • High-risk, business-critical apps (98 rating) take priority for AppSec escalations or audits.

• Are pipeline security gates working?

  • If PBOM icons show gaps (e.g., no SAST, no IaC scan), need engineering fixes.

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🗂️ 5. Detailed Description of the Chart

Field	Meaning
Business Rating	A score (likely 0–100) reflecting app's importance to business. Higher = more critical.
App Name	Application under management. Expanding shows associated repositories.
Issues (Critical, High, Medium)	Colored dots (🔴 critical, 🟠 high, 🟡 medium) with counts for each severity.
PBOM (Pipeline Bill of Materials) Icons	Small icons representing security scans integrated at different phases (e.g., SAST, Secrets detection, PII scan, Cloud security).

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🔵 PBOM Icon Interpretation (based on common ASPM practices):

Icon	Likely Represents
Shield	SAST (Static code analysis)
Shield + Lock	Dependency/Package Analysis (SCA)
Expansion Arrows	PII/Secrets scanning
Document	Build Artifact Security (e.g., SBOM generation)
Magnifying Glass	DAST or API Security Scan
Eye Mask	Secrets Management (runtime secrets scan)
Package Shield	Container Security
Cloud Icon	Cloud/IaC Security

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🎨 Color Coding for Issue Severity:

Color	Meaning
🔴 Red	Critical vulnerabilities
🟠 Orange	High severity vulnerabilities
🟡 Yellow	Medium severity vulnerabilities

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🛠️ Probable Data Sources Feeding This View

(Just briefly, as you asked to exclude deep details)

• Vulnerability scanners (SAST, DAST, SCA)

• Secrets scanners

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scanners

• Cloud posture management tools

• Repository metadata (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket)

• Business metadata from CMDB, Jira, or internal app catalogs

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📌 Summary

The Application Overview chart gives AppSec engineers a single pane of glass to:

• Prioritize applications by business risk and security risk.

• Audit PBOM coverage across dev-build-deploy phases.

• Triage open criticals quickly across applications and repos.

• Drive data-driven, business-aligned security decisions — not just fix findings randomly.