Application Security
Introduction
The penalty for a security breach is high. A lack of focus on cybersecurity can be incredibly damaging to an organization. There is a direct financial impact such as theft of confidential information, disruption to trading or even having to repair affected systems all resulting in financial loss. Additionally, cybersecurity breaches also cause reputational damage which sometimes has far bigger impact than just the financial loss and can be fatal to an organization.
The moment an application is deployed to production, new security holes and zero-day exploits make the Application vulnerable despite all the efforts of the pre-production testing. In a siloed world where Security Team is focussed on Vulnerabilities and Threats, and App Team is focussed on Application Topologies, Savi (Sr. Director, Cyberdefense, Bridge to Possibili-Tea) wondered if it was possible to have a Security Solution that could bring multiple teams together and reduce MTTD and the MTTR.
A New Approach
With applications running anywhere, changing constantly, and being unique, Savi needed to take a new approach to security. She wanted a solution that offers ‘Inside-Out Security’. It should:
- Be closer to the application runtime
- Continuously evaluate the Application for security
- Share context with different teams based on metrices from Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Business Intelligence (BiQ) and
- Be adaptive for the Application
Next
We’ll look at the challenges that keep Savi awake at night.