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What is Application Security Software?
Application security software is designed to protect applications from cyber threats by identifying vulnerabilities, preventing attacks, and ensuring data integrity throughout the application’s lifecycle. This software typically includes features like static and dynamic analysis, runtime protection, and vulnerability scanning to detect and address potential security issues such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and unauthorized access. It helps organizations maintain secure applications by implementing best practices for secure coding, performing penetration testing, and monitoring for security breaches. Application security software is crucial for organizations to safeguard sensitive data, comply with regulations, and minimize the risk of exploitation. Compare and read user reviews of the best Application Security software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Aikido Security
Aikido Security
Secure your stack with Aikido's code-to-cloud security platform. Find and fix vulnerabilities fast & automatically. Aikido'sapplication security platform combines important scanning capabilities. SAST, DAST, SCA, CSPM, IaC, Container scanning and more - making it a true ASPM platform.Starting Price: Free -
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GitGuardian
GitGuardian
GitGuardian is a code security platform that provides solutions for DevOps generation. A leader in the market of secrets detection and remediation, its solutions are already used by hundreds of thousands of developers. GitGuardian helps developers, cloud operation, security, and compliance professionals secure software development and define and enforce policies consistently and globally across all systems. GitGuardian solutions monitor public and private repositories in real-time, detect secrets, sensitive files, IaC misconfigurations, and alert to allow investigation and quick remediation. Additionally, GitGuardian's Honeytoken module exposes decoy resources like AWS credentials, increasing the odds of catching intrusion in the software delivery pipeline. GitGuardian is trusted by leading companies, including 66 degrees, Snowflake, Orange, Iress, Maven Wave, DataDog, and PayFit. Used by more than 300K developers, it ranks #1 in the security category on GitHub Marketplace.Starting Price: $0 -
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Wing Security
Wing Security
Wing empowers organizations to harness the full potential of SaaS while ensuring a robust security posture. In addition to a free version that provides a list of an organization's SaaS inventory, with insightful details regarding application usage and user information, Wing’s complete SSPM solution offers unparalleled visibility, control, and compliance capabilities, strengthening any organization's defense against modern SaaS-related threats. With Wing’s automated security capabilities, CISOs, security teams, and IT professionals save weeks of work previously spent on manual and error-prone processes. Trusted by hundreds of global companies, Wing provides actionable security insights derived from our industry-leading SaaS application database, covering over 280,000 SaaS vendors. This results in the safest and most efficient way to leverage SaaS.Starting Price: Free -
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SonarQube Server
SonarSource
SonarQube Server is a self-managed solution for continuous code quality inspection that helps development teams identify and fix bugs, vulnerabilities, and code smells in real-time. It provides automated static code analysis for a variety of programming languages, ensuring the highest quality and security standards are maintained throughout the development lifecycle. SonarQube Server integrates seamlessly with existing CI/CD pipelines, offering flexibility for on-premise or cloud-based deployment. With advanced reporting features, it helps teams manage technical debt, track improvements, and enforce coding standards. SonarQube Server is ideal for organizations seeking full control over their code quality and security without compromising on performance. -
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AppTrana
Indusface
Indusface’s AppTrana is a fully managed web application firewall that ensures risk-based protection with its DDoS, API risk, and Bot mitigation services while assuring web acceleration with secure CDN. Combining automated scanning with manual pen-testing, it detects application vulnerabilities. All of this with 24x7 expert support to meet zero false-positive guarantees. Indusface is the only vendor to be named Customers’ Choice for WAAP in all the 7 segments of the Gartner VoC 2022 Report.Starting Price: $99/month -
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AppScan
HCLSoftware
HCL AppScan is a suite of application security testing platforms, technologies, and services that help organizations detect and remediate vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Powerful static, dynamic, interactive, and open-source scanning engines (DAST, SAST, IAST, SCA, API) quickly and accurately test code, web applications, APIs, mobile applications, containers, and open-source components with the help of AI and machine learning capabilities. Centralized dashboards provide visibility, oversight, compliance policies, and reporting. HCL AppScan’s scanning engines are maintained by expert security researchers and are continuously updated to remain current with recent technologies, vulnerabilities, and attack vectors. With HCL AppScan, organizations can manage their application security posture and reduce risk across their entire software supply chain.Starting Price: $296 -
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Mend.io
Mend.io
Trusted by the world's leading companies, including IBM, Google, and Capital One, Mend.io's enterprise suite of application security tools is designed to help you build and manage a mature, proactive AppSec program. Mend.io understands the different AppSec requirements of developers and security teams. Unlike other AppSec solutions that force everyone to use a single tool, Mend.io helps them work in harmony by giving each team different, but complementary, tools - enabling them to stop chasing vulnerabilities and start proactively managing application risk.Starting Price: $12,000 per year -
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Jit
Jit
DevOps ain’t easy! We are hearing more and more about the breakdown and friction where Dev meets Ops, so let’s not even talk about all the other shift-left domains that add another layer of complexity in the middle like DevSecOps. Where this comes with the need to implement and integrate dozens of security tools in their SDLC. But what if it doesn’t have to be difficult? Jit's DevSecOps Orchestration Platform allows high-velocity Engineering teams to own product security while increasing dev velocity. With a unified and friendly developer experience, we envision a world where every cloud application is born with Minimal Viable Security (MVS) embedded and iteratively improves by adding Continuous Security into CI/CD/CS. -
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Trend Micro Cloud App Security
Trend Micro
Enhance the security of Office 365, Google Workspace, and other cloud services by leveraging sandbox malware analysis for ransomware, BEC, and other advanced threats. The security included with Office 365 filters known antivirus threats, but 95% of today’s malware will only infect one device and is unknown to traditional antivirus techniques. Direct cloud-to-cloud integration: Uses APIs to enhance protection without complications. Sets up quickly and automatically: API integration requires no software to install, no user setting changes, no proxy to deploy, and no MX record to change. -
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Backslash Security
Backslash
Ensure the security of your code and open sources. Identify externally reachable data flows and vulnerabilities for effective risk mitigation. By identifying genuine attack paths to reachable code, we enable you to fix only the code and open-source software that is truly in use and reachable. Avoid unnecessary overloading of development teams with irrelevant vulnerabilities. Prioritize risk mitigation efforts more effectively, ensuring a focused and efficient security approach. Reduce the noise CSPM, CNAPP, and other runtime tools create by removing unreachable packages before running your applications. Meticulously analyze your software components and dependencies, identifying any known vulnerabilities or outdated libraries that could pose a threat. Backslash analyzes both direct and transitive packages, ensuring 100% reachability coverage. It outperforms existing tools that solely focus on direct packages, accounting for only 11% of packages. -
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ImmuniWeb
ImmuniWeb
ImmuniWeb SA is a global application security company operating in over 50 countries, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Most of ImmuniWeb customers come from regulated industries, such as banking, healthcare, and e-commerce. ImmuniWeb® AI Platform leverages award-winning AI and Machine Learning technology for acceleration and intelligent automation of Attack Surface Management and Dark Web Monitoring. The data is later leveraged for a threat-aware and risk-based Application Penetration Testing for web, mobile, and API security testing. ImmuniWeb is the only company that offers a contractual zero false-positives SLA with a money-back guarantee. ImmuniWeb’s AI technology is a recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, including Gartner Cool Vendor, IDC Innovator, and the winner of “SC Award Europe” in the “Best Usage of Machine Learning and AI” category. ImmuniWeb® Community Edition runs over 100,000 daily tests, being one of the largest application security communitiesStarting Price: $499/month -
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SecureStack
SecureStack
With triggers in your CI/CD pipeline, SecureStack can check for common security issues and stop those issues from getting into your applications. SecureStack embeds security automatically with every git push. We built our technology to test every facet of your application security looking for things like missing security controls, are you using encryption correctly; we test the efficacy of your WAF and are your cloud-native components secure and more than 250 other data points. All of that was delivered in less than 60 seconds. See what a hacker can see when they view your applications. Test and compare your development, staging and production environments to quickly find critical differences and understand ways to fix high-priority defects. We help you decompose your web application so you are aware of all the resources your app is using behind the scenes.Starting Price: $500/mo -
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Contrast Security
Contrast Security
Modern software development must match the speed of the business. But the modern AppSec tool soup lacks integration and creates complexity that slows software development life cycles. Contrast simplifies the complexity that impedes today’s development teams. Legacy AppSec employs a one-size-fits-all vulnerability detection and remediation approach that is inefficient and costly. Contrast automatically applies the best analysis and remediation technique, dramatically improving efficiencies and efficacy. Separate AppSec tools create silos that obfuscate the gathering of actionable intelligence across the application attack surface. Contrast delivers centralized observability that is critical to managing risks and capitalizing on operational efficiencies, both for security and development teams. Contrast Scan is pipeline native and delivers the speed, accuracy, and integration demanded by modern software development.Starting Price: $0 -
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CyCognito
CyCognito
Expose all the hidden security gaps in your organization using nation-state grade technology. CyCognito’s Global Bot Network uses attacker-like reconnaissance techniques to scan, discover and fingerprint billions of digital assets all over the world. No input or configuration needed. Uncover the unknown. The Discovery Engine uses graph data modeling to map your organization’s full attack surface. You get a clear view of every single asset an attacker could reach — what they are and how they relate to your business. Using CyCognito’s proprietary risk-detection methods, the attack simulator identifies risks per asset and discovers potential attack vectors. It doesn’t affect business operations and works without deployment, configuration or whitelisting. CyCognito scores each risk based its attractiveness to attackers and impact on the business, dramatically reducing the thousands of attack vectors organizations may have to those critical few dozen that need your focusStarting Price: $11/asset/month -
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The NTT Application Security Platform provides all of the services required to secure the entire software development lifecycle. From solutions for the security team, to fast and accurate products for developers in DevOps environments, we help organizations enjoy all of the benefits of digital transformation without the security headaches. Get smart about application security. With the best in-class application security technology, our always-on assessments are constantly detecting attack vectors and scanning your application code. NTT Sentinel Dynamic accurately identifies and verifies vulnerabilities in your websites and web applications. NTT Sentinel Source and NTT Scout scan your entire source code, identify vulnerabilities, and provide detailed vulnerability descriptions and remediation advice.
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Rencore Code (SPCAF)
Rencore
Rencore Code (SPCAF) is the only solution on the market that analyzes and assures code quality for SharePoint, Microsoft 365 and Teams development by checking violations against over 1100 policies and checks regarding security, performance, best practices, maintainability, and supportability. Rencore Code (SPCAF) client both works as standalone desktop application or SaaS service. Dev teams run Rencore Code Server, allowing multiple developers to use it as a quality gate and seamlessly integrate it into any provisioning solution. Rencore Code (SPCAF) covers all developer and dev team needs from inventorizing code to troubleshooting and monitoring the performance of code. You can try Rencore Code (SPCAF) for free for 30 days. For more information, please visit our product page and follow Rencore on Twitter and LinkedIn.Starting Price: $70 per user per month -
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Barracuda Application Protection
Barracuda
Barracuda Application Protection is an integrated platform that provides comprehensive security for web applications and APIs across on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments. It combines full Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) functionality with advanced security services to defend against a wide range of threats, including the OWASP Top 10, zero-day attacks, and automated threats. The platform offers features such as machine learning-powered auto-configuration, full-spectrum DDoS protection, advanced bot protection, and client-side protection to safeguard applications from sophisticated attacks. Additionally, it includes a hardened SSL/TLS stack for secure HTTPS front-end, built-in content delivery network (CDN) for optimized performance, and integration with various authentication services for granular access control. Barracuda Application Protection simplifies application security by providing a unified solution that is easy to deploy, configure, and manage. -
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Finite State
Finite State
Finite State manages risk across the software supply chain with comprehensive SCA and SBOMs for the connected world. By providing end-to-end SBOM solutions, Finite State enables Product Security teams to meet regulatory, customer, and security demands. Finite State's best-in-class binary SCA creates visibility into any-party software that enables Product Security teams to understand their risk in context and shift right on vulnerability detection. With visibility, scalability, and speed, Finite State correlates data from all of your security tools into a single pane of glass for maximum visibility. -
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ActiveState
ActiveState
ActiveState delivers Intelligent Remediation for vulnerability management, which enables DevSecOps teams to not only identify vulnerabilities in open source packages, but also to automatically prioritize, remediate, and deploy fixes into production without breaking changes, ensuring that applications are truly secured. Existing tools overwhelm DevSecOps teams with excessive vulnerability data, false positives, and a lack of prioritization, often leading to inaction and increased exposure to exploits. ActiveState’s solution provides your DevSecOps with a comprehensive view of open source vulnerability status across your application portfolio, enabling them to prioritize the vulnerabilities that matter, assess the risk of updates, and choose recommended remediation paths based on corporate policies and avoiding breaking changes. We do this by helping you understand your vulnerability blast radius, intelligently prioritize remediations, and precisely remediate what matters. -
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Legit Security
Legit Security
Legit Security protects software supply chains from attack by automatically discovering and securing the pipelines, infrastructure, code and people so that businesses can stay safe while releasing software fast. Automatically discover security issues, remediate threats and ensure the integrity and compliance of software releases. Comprehensive, visual SDLC inventory that's continually updated. Reveal unknown, misconfigured and vulnerable SDLC systems and infrastructure. Centralized visibility over location, coverage and configuration of your existing security tools and scanners. Catch insecure build actions before they can embed vulnerabilities downstream. Centralized, early prevention of sensitive data leaks, secrets and PII, before being pushed into the SDLC. Track security trends across teams and product lines to improve security posture and incentivize behavior. Get security posture at-a-glance with Legit Security Scores, Integrate your own alert and ticketing tools or use ours. -
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Phylum
Phylum
Phylum defends applications at the perimeter of the open-source ecosystem and the tools used to build software. Its automated analysis engine scans third-party code as soon as it’s published into the open-source ecosystem to vet software packages, identify risks, inform users and block attacks. Think of Phylum like a firewall for open-source code. Phylum’s database of open-source software supply chain risks is the most comprehensive and scalable offering available, and can be deployed throughout the development lifecycle depending on an organization’s infrastructure and appsec program maturity: in front of artifact repository managers, directly with package managers or in CI/CD pipelines. The Phylum policy library allows users to toggle on the blocking of critical vulnerabilities, attacks like typosquats, obfuscated code and dependency confusion, copyleft licenses, and more. Users can also leverage OPA to create custom policies. -
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Metasploit
Rapid7
Knowledge is power, especially when it’s shared. A collaboration between the open source community and Rapid7, Metasploit helps security teams do more than just verify vulnerabilities, manage security assessments, and improve security awareness; it empowers and arms defenders to always stay one step (or two) ahead of the game. -
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Imperva Runtime Protection
Imperva
Imperva Runtime Protection detects and blocks attacks from inside the application. Using patented LangSec techniques which treat data as code, Imperva Runtime Protection has full context of potentially malicious payloads before the application completes its processes. The result? Fast and accurate protection with NO signatures and NO learning mode. Imperva Runtime Protection is a key component of Imperva’s market-leading, full stack application security solution which brings defense-in-depth to a new level. -
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Polaris Software Integrity Platform
Black Duck
The Polaris Software Integrity Platform™ brings the power of Black Duck Integrity products and services together into an integrated, easy-to-use solution that enables security and development teams to build secure, high-quality software faster. Elastic capacity and concurrent scanning optimize application scan times. And Polaris scales to support thousands of applications. With Polaris, there is no hardware to deploy or software to update, and no limits on team size or scan frequency. Onboard and start scanning code in minutes, and automate testing easily with built-in SCM, CI, and issue-tracking integrations. Polaris brings our market-leading security analysis engines together in a unified platform, giving you the flexibility to run different tests at different times based on application, project, schedule, or SDLC events. -
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Find and fix security issues early with the most accurate results in the industry. OpenText™ Fortify™ Static Code Analyzer pinpoints the root cause of security vulnerabilities in the source code, prioritizes the most serious issues, and provides detailed guidance on how to fix them. Plus, centralized software security management helps developers resolve issues in less time. Gain support for 1,657 vulnerability categories across 33+ languages, spanning more than one million individual APIs. Embed security into application development tools you use, with Fortify’s integration ecosystem. Gain control of the speed and accuracy of SAST by tuning the depth of the scan and minimizing false positives with Audit Assistant. Dynamically scale SAST scans up or down to meet the changing demands of the CI/CD pipeline. Achieve comprehensive shift-left security for cloud-native applications, from IaC to serverless, in a single solution.
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Enso
Enso Security
Enso is transforming application security by empowering organizations to build, manage and scale their AppSec programs. Its Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) platform easily deploys into an organization’s environment to create an actionable, unified inventory of all application assets, their owners, security posture and associated risk. With Enso Security, AppSec teams gain the capacity to manage the tools, people and processes involved in application security, enabling them to build a simplified, agile and scalable application security program without interfering with development. Enso has been recognized with numerous awards including the 2022 Excellence Awards, Globee Awards, and Forbes Top 20 Cybersecurity Startups to Watch. -
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Checkmarx
Checkmarx
The Checkmarx Software Security Platform provides a centralized foundation for operating your suite of software security solutions for Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST), Software Composition Analysis (SCA), and application security training and skills development. Built to address every organization’s needs, the Checkmarx Software Security Platform provides the full scope of options: including private cloud and on-premises solutions. Allowing a range of implementation options ensures customers can start securing their code immediately, rather than going through long processes of adapting their infrastructure to a single implementation method. The Checkmarx Software Security Platform transforms the standard for secure application development, providing one powerful resource with industry-leading capabilities. -
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Veracode
Veracode
Veracode offers a holistic, scalable way to manage security risk across your entire application portfolio. We are the only solution that can provide visibility into application status across all testing types, including SAST, DAST, SCA, and manual penetration testing, in one centralized view.
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