In today’s ever-evolving landscape, organisations recognise that software risk directly impacts their business. To effectively handle this risk, the focus is on creating scalable and efficient application security programmes. With the threat landscape becoming more challenging, the demand for streamlined testing, triage, and risk management is rising to match the rapidly expanding software footprint.
This is why Synopsys has launched Software Risk Manager, a comprehensive, powerful, on-premises application security posture management (ASPM) solution that empowers security and development teams to prioritise risk effectively and concentrate on critical areas. This unified platform combines policy, orchestration, correlation, and integrated static application security testing (SAST) and software composition analysis (SCA) engines, seamlessly integrating security activities throughout the software development life cycle. By leveraging Software Risk Manager, teams gain access to a centralised source of truth, enabling them to make informed decisions and deliver robust and resilient applications.
It aligns intelligent policy-driven orchestration and vulnerability management capabilities with the Synopsys Software Integrity Group’s market-leading SAST and SCA engines, with broad support for other open-source and commercial AST tools. In combination, Synopsys’ ASPM solution delivers an enhanced ability to implement application security consistently across any organization.
“Application security programs need to be effective and efficient at reducing software risk in order to deliver value,” said Jason Schmitt, general manager of the Synopsys Software Integrity Group. “Many organizations embracing digital transformation are struggling with the complexity and operational costs of managing their software risk at scale. Synopsys Software Risk Manager provides teams with a holistic view of their application security posture while accelerating time to value and reducing the overall cost of their AppSec programs.”
According to Gartner, “Application security posture management analyses security signals across software development, deployment, and operations to improve visibility, better manage vulnerabilities, and enforce controls. Security leaders can use ASPM to improve application security efficacy and better manage risk.”
Gartner predicts that by 2026, more than 40% of organisations developing proprietary applications will adopt ASPM to rapidly identify and resolve application security issues.
Software Risk Manager is built on the core technologies of Synopsys’ Code Dx and Intelligent Orchestration products, redesigned and enhanced to deliver a comprehensive ASPM solution that enables teams to:
- Implement policy driven AppSec at scale. Centrally define and enforce universal security policies which specify parameters for test execution and vulnerability management.
- Unify user experience across disparate application security testing tools. Maximise the value of existing security investments while simplifying resourcing and operations. Improve ability to transition and consolidate tooling across teams.
- Consolidate vulnerability reporting and management across projects, teams and tools. Obtain a complete picture of security risks that is normalised, deduplicated and prioritised across tools.
- Simplify AppSec integration and orchestration in development workflows. Integrate security workflows within existing developer toolchains and systems and enable quick onboarding for existing projects and builds.
- Optimise core application security testing with a single, unified solution. Efficiently deploy, manage and report on core application security testing functions leveraging the same market-leading SAST and SCA engines that power Synopsys’ Coverity® and Black Duck® offerings.
