Wiz and Contrast Security join forces to deliver clear visibility into application vulnerabilities

Applications are a prime target for cyberattacks. However, many organizations struggle with blindspots at the application layer. They may be doing scans today, but often they’re point-in-time scans leading to a plethora of false positives. Robust application security is essential to defend against these attacks that target everything from personal information, confidential business practices, to even national security. 

To address this challenge, Contrast Security and Wiz have joined forces to deliver a powerful integration that provides comprehensive visibility into application-level runtime vulnerabilities. This integration combines Contrast Security's deep understanding of interactive application security testing (IAST) with Wiz's extensive knowledge of cloud environments, enabling organizations to identify and remediate vulnerabilities more rapidly than ever before.

The power of Contrast Security

Contrast Runtime Security Platform is real-time, always-on security inside your applications and application programming interfaces (APIs). Our patented instrumentation technology embeds security analysis and attack prevention directly into software, providing visibility into application behavior and vulnerabilities across the entire application stack.

The strength of Wiz

Wiz is a cloud security platform that gives security and development teams deep visibility and protection across their cloud environments. It connects agentlessly to map cloud resources like VMs, containers, and databases, then identifies and prioritizes risks by correlating toxic combinations with its Security Graph. Wiz extends these insights into IDEs, CI/CD pipelines, and AppSec tools, and detects real-time threats using cloud-native signals—delivering full coverage from code to cloud.

The benefits of integration

The integration between Contrast Security and Wiz delivers several key benefits:

• Contextualized vulnerability information: The integration provides visibility into Contrast's runtime application vulnerability telemetry in Wiz, contextualizing the location of vulnerabilities in cloud environments.This data may include, but is not limited to: application name, resource ID, and vulnerability details. 
• Comprehensive vulnerability management: By feeding application vulnerability data onto Wiz’s security graph, users can centralize vulnerability management efforts. Instead of switching between systems to get the depth of data they need, they gain visibility into vulnerabilities from both the cloud infrastructure and applications in a single pane of glass. 
• Faster time to remediation:  The integration enables rapid identification and remediation of vulnerabilities across the stack by using the context that Contrast provides to pinpoint exactly where in the application and cloud environment a vulnerability exists that needs to be remediated. This saves significant time on risk assessment, investigation and remediation.

The real world: What’s it like in action? 

Application Security and Security Operations teams need to identify vulnerabilities that put their organization at risk before attacks happen. This requires vulnerability context to rapidly and efficiently find and remediate the issue across all environments, from development to production. Organizations often struggle with identifying the exact location of application vulnerabilities and understanding their impact. They may be running scans without knowing exactly where a vulnerability is, or if it is actually a threat to their organization. 

With the integration between Contrast Security and Wiz, there is a better way. Organizations will experience enhanced vulnerability data through Contrast's interactive application security testing with rich context. Imagine opening the Security Graph within Wiz and seeing runtime application vulnerability data from Contrast, connected to your running virtual machines. Not only data on the vulnerability itself, but also the exact part of the software development life cycle where the vulnerability exists — be it in the source code repository, CI/CD pipeline or production —  across every instance of the application, along with other risks that Wiz identifies. 

When determining the risk and impact to the business, it is important to know if this vulnerability is just in a dev instance, or if it runs all the way to production. With the integration between Contrast Security and Wiz, the data will flow seamlessly into the Wiz Security Graph so you can see the vulnerability through its entire life cycle. This eliminates application-layer blindspots and provides critical context needed to accelerate remediation and fortify cloud security posture.

Conclusion

The integration between Contrast Security and Wiz is a significant step forward in cloud security. By combining the strengths of both platforms, organizations can gain unprecedented visibility into application runtime vulnerabilities and accelerate their remediation efforts. This integration empowers organizations to strengthen their cloud security posture and protect their critical assets from cyberattacks.