Cisco Secure Application provides business risk insights for cloud-native applications

Cisco unveiled Cisco Secure Application (formerly Security Insights for Cloud Native Application Observability) on the Cisco Full-Stack Observability Platform, enabling organizations to bring together application and security teams to develop and deploy applications securely.

The latest release of Cisco Secure Application helps customers securely manage cloud-native applications in addition to hybrid applications.

In the race to deliver seamless digital experiences, IT teams have seen a growing need to move to modern, distributed applications. But according to a recent Cisco study, 92% of global technologists admit that the rush to quickly innovate and meet evolving customer needs has come at the expense of robust application security during software development1.

This has left businesses exposed to vulnerabilities and security threats, with larger attack surfaces and gaps in their application security layer caused by siled teams that struggle to gain visibility and find the good business context for prioritizing vulnerabilities.

As a result, organizations are reporting an explosion of security incidents in the modern environment, putting customer data and their company’s reputation at risk.

To help organizations secure cloud-native applications, the new Cisco Secure Application offering – now available on Cisco’s recently launched Full-Stack Observability Platform – provides customers with broad visibility and intelligent insights into business risks across cloud environments, enabling businesses to better prioritize and respond in real time. -Reduce time to revenue and reputation impacting security risks and reduce overall organizational risk profiles.

Cisco Secure Application integrates with Cisco security products and allows customers to:

• Locate and highlight security issues across application entities, including services, workloads, pods, containers, and business transactions, and quickly isolate them.
• Prioritize issues with a business risk score that combines application performance data and business impact context from Cisco Cloud Native Application Observability, with real-time vulnerability detection and security insights from Cisco security products , to identify business transactions that pose the greatest risk.
• Accelerate security incident response time with real-time remediation guidance, complemented by prescriptive actions to prioritize and address the most critical security vulnerabilities.

“Application security has never been a more urgent priority for businesses, and traditional vulnerability scanning solutions simply don’t provide the insights teams need,” said Ronak DesaiSenior Vice President and General Manager, Cisco Full-Stack Observability and AppDynamics.

“An organization’s ability to quickly assess risks based on their potential business impact, align teams, and triage threats depends entirely on understanding where vulnerabilities exist, how severe those risks are , the likelihood of them being exploited, and the risk to the business of each issue. . This business risk observability can help IT professionals understand and prioritize these risks and is provided only by Cisco. The availability of Cisco Secure Application on the Cisco Full-Stack Observability Platform is a critical next step in our commitment to providing customers with the tools they need to deliver unparalleled, secure digital experiences in hybrid and multi environments. -cloud,” Desai continued.

“A successful digital infrastructure must work as a concert, not as a collection of separate products, suppliers and people. This requires all components – from core to edge, network to applications, on-premises systems to public cloud and communications services – to work as one to deliver the best digital experiences,” says Marc Learyresearch director, IDC.

“Cisco’s extensive experience in hybrid and multi-cloud environments and full technology stack monitoring complements the company’s position to help customers bring together application observability, security intelligence data and observability of commercial risks. Together, they give customers access to the critical information they need to make intelligent decisions about the security of their applications,” concluded Leary.