Why a platform approach? 

Digital transformation demands velocity
Modern software development must match the speed of the business. But the modern AppSec tool soup lacks integration and creates complexity that slows software development life cycles. Contrast simplifies the complexity that impedes today’s development teams.

Prioritization of the best analysis techniques
Legacy AppSec employs a one-size-fits-all vulnerability detection and remediation approach that is inefficient and costly. Contrast automatically applies the best analysis and remediation technique—dramatically improving efficiencies and efficacy.

Software requires full security observability
Separate AppSec tools create silos that obfuscate the gathering of actionable intelligence across the application attack surface. Contrast delivers centralized observability that is critical to managing risks and capitalizing on operational efficiencies— both for security and development teams.

Through instrumentation, embedded sensors are woven into the code at runtime to provide continuous security observation. 

This instrumentation detects critical vulnerabilities in custom code with an exceptionally high degree of accuracy. 

This instrumentation also inventories open source libraries and identifies critical vulnerabilities in third party code. 

This instrumentation continues into apps in production to identify critical attacks that traditional solutions such as a WAF can miss. 

The Contrast Platform, through instrumentation, effectively enables continuous observability and automates vulnerability identification and attack prevention throughout the entire SDLC. One platform to meet the needs of security and development. 

At the scale required to provide comprehensive security across the entire application ecosystem of a business.