How Edgescan delivers Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)

ASPM continuously assesses, manages, and enhances application security throughout the software development lifecycle, integrating various security approaches.

Version Number: v1.0.0

Published Date: 13th November 2024

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Below are typical Key Outputs from any ASPM solution and how edgescan maps and surpasses such requirements.

Vulnerability Reports

Detailed reports on identified vulnerabilities, including their severity, potential impact, and recommended remediation steps.

Edgescan provides such metrics and more such as attack surface, SLA violations, MTTR, Prioritization and potential training recommendations which may prevent such vulnerabilities from being introduced in the first place.

Compliance Reports

Assessments of how well applications adhere to security policies and regulatory requirements.

Edgescan provides PCI-DSS, CISA, CIS compliance mapping. Edgescan’s AI insights also maps discovered vulnerabilities to compliance standards such to frame how the vulnerability will impact compliance efforts

Risk Scores

Quantitative scores that represent the overall security risk of an application based on identified vulnerabilities and their potential impact.

Edgescan provides both breach and risk metrics to easily help prioritize remediation efforts such as EPSS, CISA KEV, CVSS, EXF

Security Posture Dashboards

Visual dashboards that provide an at-a-glance view of the security status of all applications within the organization.

Edgescan provides “Asset Risk” metrics highlighting full stack security posture information to help focus on assets with most severe exposures.

Below are typical Key features in Edgescan and how they map to Key Metrics as an ASPM solution.

• Number of Vulnerabilities: The total count of vulnerabilities identified in the application, business unit or geography. Tagging of assets and application of contextual metadata to aid filtering and reporting.
• Vulnerability Severity: Classification of vulnerabilities based on their severity (e.g., critical, high, medium, low). Severity can be judged not only by the vulnerability type but by its exploitability and breach probability.
• Time to Remediation: The average time taken to fix identified vulnerabilities. By virtue of date discovered and date closed via on demand retesting to verify the vulnerability has been mitigated. Also self-imposed SLA’s to keep track of MTTR and address severe exposures fast!
• Compliance Score: A metric indicating the degree to which applications comply with security policies and standards. Edgescan uses our AI Insights to achieve compliance mapping. This keep pace with both the every changing vulnerability taxonomy and compliance requirements.
• Risk Exposure: The potential risk exposure based on the identified vulnerabilities and their severity. As above, breach predictability and public knowledge of breach attempts or ransomware leveraging a specific vulnerability can be gleamed via the edgescan platform.
• Patch Management Efficiency: Metrics related to the efficiency and timeliness of applying security patches. Self-imposed SLA’ trackers can notify and alert the occurrence of exposures not being attended to in a timely manner.
• Security Posture Trends: Trends over time showing improvements or declines in the security posture of applications. Dashboard metrics and reporting demonstrating risk posture, improvements or otherwise. AI Insights providing more context in terms of MTTR, priority and compliance issues.

The outputs and metrics above help organizations maintain a strong security posture by providing continuous visibility into the security status of their networks, API’s & applications and enabling proactive management of security.