Most legacy applications were not developed with security in mind. However, modern businesses and organizations are continuing to undergo digital transformation in order to pursue new business models and revenue channels, as well as giving their customers or constituents a simplified experience. This often means selecting cloud-based tools and solutions that allow for the scalability necessary to provide applications and services to a broad customer base.
For example, in 2013, the UK government adopted a Cloud First, or Cloud Native, policy for all technology decisions, making it mandatory to consider cloud solutions before alternatives. This means that government IT professionals must first consider public cloud options, including SaaS models for enterprise IT and back-office functions, as well as Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service.
But this dramatic expansion of the application layer introduces new security challenges. In one engagement, Veracode worked with a High Street bank to secure its web application portfolio and uncovered 1,800 websites that had not been inventoried – making its attack surface 50 percent bigger than originally thought.
With the growing complexity of IT infrastructures and a shortage of qualified security experts, businesses and government agencies alike need to enlist application security specialists with a deep understanding of the complexity of modern applications.
Veracode pioneered static binary analysis to address the security of modern applications, which are often comprised from different teams, languages, frameworks and third-party libraries. This approach allows security and development teams to assess the security posture of entire applications once they’ve been built, rather than analyzing individual pieces of source code and missing some of the potential “cross-platform” exploits.
Yet the Veracode Platform offers so much more than its signature static binary analysis.
“With a growing number of integrations with CI/CD tools and development environments and expanding its coverage to the full software supply chain, Veracode clearly shows the commitment to fully embrace the modern DevOps and DevSecOps methodologies and to address the latest security and compliance challenges,” writes KuppingerCole Lead Analyst Alexei Balaganski. “With the SaaS approach, the company can ensure that customers can start using the platform within hours, and a wide range of support, consulting and training services means they are ready to guide every customer towards the application security best practices as quickly as possible.”
To learn more about our approach to supporting modern DevOps and DevSecOps methodologies, and how the Veracode Platform is even easier for software developers to use, download the KuppingerCole Report, Executive View: Veracode Application Security Platform.