Cisco Secure Application protects while achieving peak app performance

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AppDynamics, a part of Cisco, has announced Cisco Secure Application, the industry’s first solution to drastically simplify vulnerability management, defend against attacks and protect applications.

Co-innovated with the Cisco Security business, this new solution is built natively into the AppDynamics platform, and enables users to benefit from reduced alert fatigue, real-time threat detection, and automatic breach prevention. The result is business confidence in application performance without the fear of significant damage to brand reputation and customer trust.

Organisations are increasingly reliant on applications to engage with and deliver services to customers, which leads to huge volumes of personal user data being housed within each application. As a result, organisations face increased vulnerability to cyberthreats and security incidents.

This challenge is further exacerbated as employees working from home use laptops and devices connected to the public Internet. This is testing the limits of monitoring practices and vastly expanding the IT perimeter, creating new weaknesses and vulnerabilities in even the most secure IT estates.

The need for an application-led approach to security is paramount with applications now running anywhere from on-premise to multicloud and cloud-native microservices, combined with accelerated innovation, AppDynamics said. Such a shift would enable organisations to identify vulnerabilities within the application during production, correlate vulnerabilities and breaches with business impact, and bring together application and security teams to facilitate speedy remediation.

“A slow or under performing application can significantly impact the user experience, but when an application’s security is breached and exploited, it can be life altering for the end user. Companies simply cannot afford to ignore the risk,” said Jeetu Patel, Senior VP and GM, security and applications, Cisco.

“Secure Application is the first of its kind to deliver this level of security insight that empowers both application and security teams to safeguard customer and organisation assets while delivering a best-in-class digital experience.”

Secure Application is the only solution that uniquely brings together business performance and security insights with zero friction to protect brands against slowdowns and exploits, the company said. With Secure Application, enterprise IT teams will have access to:

Automatic runtime protection

Visibility into an application's true behaviour to easily detect attacks, identify deviations, and block attacks automatically.

Simplified vulnerability management

Access at the code level to detect dependency and configuration level security vulnerabilities in production.

Security insights informed by business impact

Security details correlated with the application topology to apply business relevance to security events and helps teams focus on the incidents that matter most.

Collaboration between application and security teams

Shared context for application and security teams for optimal collaboration, improved security posture, and healthy digital business.

"Enterprise IT organisations are often considering how to transform and align their security, application development, and operations tools, processes, and teams,” said Stephen Elliot, IDC Program VP, DevOps and I&O team. I&O stands for infrastructure and operations.

“Application vulnerability management is one of the key capabilities where transformation can be accomplished, while delivering substantial business benefits."

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AppDynamics with Cisco Secure Application is currently accessible through early availability.