Instrumentation Disrupts Application Security—from Development Through Production

Legacy application security approaches simply cannot scale to the velocity demands of modern software development. As they lack vulnerability context because they run outside of the software, they slow development cycles, impede innovation, and incur substantial inefficiencies and cost. When applications are released into production, this same outside-in approach generates huge numbers of false positives while requiring operations teams to spend significant time calibrating and recalibrating perimeter defenses such as web application firewalls. Instrumentation disrupts this outside-in security approach by embedding security within the software. In this Inside AppSec podcast, Contrast’s CTO and Co-Founder Jeff Williams discusses this paradigm shift and why it offers a much more efficient, effective application security model.