Contrast and Splunk integration

Executive summary of the integration

Contrast seamlessly integrates with Splunk, delivering deep application insights that empower SOC teams to identify and respond to sophisticated attacks faster. This integration seamlessly blends Contrast’s deep application-layer insights with Splunk’s powerful SIEM capabilities, enriching Splunk dashboards and searches with crucial application context.

The application security blindspot

The application layer is a primary target for cyberattacks and one of the last refuges for attackers to hide. Traditional security tools struggle to provide adequate protection of web applications and APIs. Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) offer no protection to zero days and generate a high volume of alerts with limited context, many of which are false positives. If teams actively try to ingest and triage the resulting flood of alerts, the SOC is overwhelmed, with no choice but to disregard or disable these application alerts. This creates a gap in the company’s defenses. Even when some application alerts are accurate, SOC teams often lack the application-specific context and expertise needed to effectively investigate and respond to these security incidents. This combination of alert fatigue, lack of context and limited visibility hinders an organization's ability to defend its critical applications and data.

Application security with a unified solution

Contrast Application Detection and Response (ADR) and Splunk are a powerful combination for organizations seeking to elevate their security posture. Contrast ADR instruments applications from within, providing deep and continuous visibility into application behavior and identifying attacks with high accuracy. This real-time security telemetry is seamlessly integrated into Splunk, enriching security events with crucial application context. This empowers security teams to identify sophisticated attacks that bypass traditional tools, accelerate investigations and remediate with correlated data.

By combining high-confidence application security insights with broader security context, SOC teams can achieve a unified view of their security landscape to significantly reduce MTTD and MTTR for application attacks.

This real-time data is seamlessly integrated into Splunk, enriching security events with crucial application context and enabling the SOC to:

• Detect application threats
  Gain actionable insights into application attacks by correlating security events with real-time application behavior
• Eliminate the noise
  Focus on actual application threats with precise, actionable alerts within Splunk.
• Investigate with context
  Enrich Splunk security investigations with deep application context for faster threat analysis and response.

Solving application security challenges

Gain deep application visibility and control

Challenge
Traditional tools miss attacks hidden within the application layer.

Solution
Contrast ADR instruments applications for continuous visibility. Integrated with Splunk, SOC teams gain real-time context — down to the specific code exploited — to identify sophisticated attacks and guide faster, consistent incident response using runbooks.

Detect and respond to zero-day attacks

Challenge
Signature-reliant tools like WAFs are blind to unknown, zero-day exploits.

Solution
Contrast ADR detects attacks based on actual malicious behavior, not just signatures. This real-time behavioral telemetry feeds Splunk, enabling rapid identification and response to novel threats targeting your applications.

Uncover hidden threats and data exfiltration

Challenge
Attackers exploit the internal application blindspot to conceal activity.

Solution
Contrast ADR provides deep runtime visibility inside applications. Accurate telemetry in Splunk empowers SOC teams to hunt for Indicators of Compromise (IOCs), expose hidden threats and identify suspicious data exfiltration patterns.

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