In May 2021, during the fallout of a successful ransomware attack on a pipeline that supplies nearly half the U.S. East Coast’s gasoline, President Biden signed an executive order placing strict new standards on the cybersecurity of any software sold to federal agencies. President Biden calls out several specific areas where agencies need to elevate their application security capabilities including:
- Establishing effective application security policies
- Instituting a Zero Trust Architecture where appropriate
- Greater software supply chain transparency via a software bill of materials (SBOM)
- Defining more stringent standards for testing, monitoring, protection, and reporting
- Standardizing a Federal playbook for cybersecurity responses
With limited Security expertise available, agencies must be able to detect vulnerabilities within the software lifecycle to ensure rapid, cost-effective remediation and enable developers to secure-as-they-code.
Improves Efficiencies
Accelerates efficiencies by detecting vulnerabilities in real time during development, resulting in secure code delivered 10x faster at lower cost.
Enterprise Scale
Designed for modern software, Contrast detects vulnerabilities in custom, open-source and APIs regardless of where the code is run - all while offering embedded protection in production.
Prioritized Remediation
Reduces alert fatigue, triage time, and remediation expense with accurate detection and prioritization of vulnerability fixes.
Lowers Risk
Improves security awareness across the entire development life cycle with orchestrated code runtime observability and security telemetry.
Software Supply Chain Transparency
Contrast automatically catalogues your proprietary and third-party software assets into a digestible software bill of materials (SBOM) while also providing insights to dependency risk and flagging new vulnerabilities in real-time.
Embedded Software Security Policies
Integrated security policies help provide oversight and governance within pre-production environments and protection rules to block targeted attacks in production.
Protection in the Wild
Contrast will block attacks targeting vulnerable components and offer mitigating controls against zero-day events with no patching required.
Continuous Monitoring
Designed for modern software, Contrast continuously monitors and detects from within software regardless of where the application runs.
CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model
Contrast maps to the directives of the Application Workload pillar (Pillar 4)
NIST 800-53, Rev. 5
Contrast employs Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP) to address SI-7(17) and Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) to address SA-11(9) in the latest NIST 800-53 revision
2021 Cybersecurity E.O.
Meet requirements outlined in EO Sections 2, 3, 4, & 7 for the purposes of modernizing federal app security and software supply chain observability
CISA Binding Operational Directive 22-01
Agencies can leverage Contrast to help remediate over 250 vulnerability classes mentioned in the Directive while providing real-time protection as a mitigating control.
The Leading Secure Coding Platform for DevSecOps
Delivering three security solutions via a single platform — runtime code security (IAST), open-source security (SCA), and runtime application self- protection (RASP) — Contrast Security solutions map to all of the very latest US Government security directives
Federal Partners
WHAT SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT TEAMS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE NEW NIST 800-53 IAST AND RASP STANDARDS
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
Proven application security experience for technical and service contracts
SEWP V
SEWP V Simplifies buying application security solutions
NIST 800-53 COMPLIANT
Complies with both the IAST and RASP requirements
DOD PLATFORM ONE
Preapproved Authorization to Operate (ATO) the Contrast Application Security Platform
IRON BANK - DOD CENTRALIZED ARTIFACTS REPOSITORY (DCAR)
Authority to Operate (ATO) achieved via Platform One
AICPA SOC2 TYPE II
Integrated service offerings that provide rapid time to deployment