Cisco AppDynamics Delivers Industry-First Solution for Strengthening Security Posture Against Threats While Achieving Peak Application Performance

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Cisco has launched Secure Application, an innovative solution designed to simplify vulnerability management and enhance application security. Co-developed with the Cisco Security team, this tool integrates security and application insights, promising reduced alert fatigue and automatic breach prevention. With applications migrating to cloud-native environments, organizations can now manage vulnerabilities more effectively during production. This offering supports enterprise IT teams in securing applications without compromising performance, ultimately safeguarding customer trust and brand reputation.

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• Launch of Secure Application addresses vulnerability management and security.
• Integration of security and application insights within a single platform.
• Real-time threat detection and automatic breach prevention improves operational efficiency.
• Supports hybrid IT environments, enhancing application performance while securing sensitive data.

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AppDynamics, a part of Cisco and the world’s #1 APM solution and full-stack, business-centric observability platform, today announced Cisco Secure Application, the industry’s first solution to drastically simplify vulnerability management, defend against attacks and protect applications - from the inside-out. Co-innovated with the Cisco Security business, the world’s largest enterprise security company, this new solution correlates security and application insights through a single solution. Built natively into the AppDynamics platform, users benefit from reduced alert fatigue, real time threat detection, and automatic breach prevention. The result is businesses’ confidence in application performance without the fear of significant damage to brand reputation and customer trust.

Organizations are increasingly reliant on applications to engage with and deliver services to customers, which leads to huge volumes of personal user data being housed within the application. As a result, organizations face increased vulnerability to cyber threats and security incidents. This challenge is further exacerbated as they continue to support more employees working from home who are using laptops and devices connected to the public internet. This is testing the limits of monitoring practices and vastly expanding the IT perimeter, creating new weaknesses and vulnerabilities in even the most secure IT estates. Failure to have the right processes and solutions in place to safeguard data housed in applications not only puts brand reputation and consumer trust at risk, but could also cost organizations millions of dollars in the event of a breach.

With applications now running anywhere from on-premise to multi-cloud and cloud-native microservices, combined with accelerated innovation, the need for an application-led approach to security is paramount. This critical shift will enable technologists to identify vulnerabilities within the application during production, correlate vulnerabilities and breaches with business impact, and bring together Application and Security teams to facilitate speedy remediation.

With Secure Application, IT teams will no longer sacrifice security for velocity. Secure Application is the only solution that uniquely brings together business performance and security insights with zero friction to protect brands against slowdowns and exploits.

“A slow or underperforming application can significantly impact the user experience, but when an application’s security is breached and exploited, it can be life altering for the end user. Companies simply cannot afford to ignore the risk,” said Jeetu Patel, senior vice president and general manager, security and applications, Cisco. “Secure Application is the first of its kind to deliver this level of security insight that empowers both Application and Security teams to safeguard customer and organization assets while delivering a best-in-class digital experience.”

With Secure Application, enterprise IT teams will have access to:

• Automatic runtime protection: Visibility into an application's true behavior to easily detect attacks, identify deviations, and block attacks automatically.

• Simplified vulnerability management: Access at the code level to detect dependency and configuration level security vulnerabilities in production.

• Security insights informed by business impact: Security details correlated with the application topology to apply business relevance to security events and helps teams focus on the incidents that matter most.

• Collaboration between Application and Security teams: Shared context for Application and Security teams for optimal collaboration, improved security posture, and healthy digital business.

"Enterprise IT Organizations are often considering how to transform and align their security, application development, operations tools, processes, and teams,” said Stephen Elliot, IDC program vice president, DevOps and I&O team. “Application vulnerability management is one of the key capabilities where transformation can be accomplished, while delivering substantial business benefits."

AppDynamics with Cisco Secure Application is currently accessible through early availability. Learn more about Secure Application here.

Additional resources

• Secure Application Demo
• AppDynamics Blog

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About AppDynamics

AppDynamics, a part of Cisco, is the world’s #1 Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution and full-stack, business-centric observability platform that helps technologists prevent digital performance issues by monitoring cloud-native technologies and traditional infrastructure to understand exactly what drives user experiences and impacts the bottom line for businesses. Core products include: Business iQ, Experience Journey Map, and Cognition Engine.

AppDynamics has been recognized by Gartner as a leader in the APM market for more than eight years and was positioned highest in ‘ability to execute’ in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant Report for APM. It received Glassdoor’s 2019 Best Places to Work Award and Fortune’s top 5 Best Places to Work in 2020 as part of Cisco.

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FAQ

What is Cisco's Secure Application?

Cisco's Secure Application is a new solution designed to simplify vulnerability management and enhance application security by integrating security and application insights into a single platform.

How does Secure Application improve application security?

Secure Application improves application security by providing real-time threat detection, automatic breach prevention, and facilitating better collaboration between Application and Security teams.

What are the benefits of using Cisco Secure Application?

Benefits of Cisco Secure Application include reduced alert fatigue, improved visibility into application behavior, and enhanced security insights correlated with business impact.

When will Cisco's Secure Application be available?

Cisco's Secure Application is currently accessible through early availability.

Which company developed Secure Application?

Secure Application was co-innovated by Cisco and its Security business team.