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Showing posts with label Acunetix. Show all posts

Monday, January 9, 2017

RASP or No RASP

Many orgs these days, especially regulated one's (and most are regulated), use some type of (dynamic) application security scanning tool (DAST: Qualys, Acunetix, WhiteHat) for Web application security.

With that said, fewer use edge protection solutions (e.g., WAF, DDoS) to "Band-Aid" findings, and fewer use static analyzers (SAST: CheckMarx, HPE Fortify, IBM AppScan) to find problems before they go to QA or into production.

So, a while back firms like Prevoty & HPE (& others now, like Immunio) have launched runtime application self-protection (RASP) solutions to further protect Java & .NET applications.  But what about Perl, Python, MEAN, LAMP, etc.? 

That's where an argument against RASP comes in.  At the end of the day, a solid secure development lifecycle (SDL), and existing investments should help negate the need for RASP.  Though, many orgs struggle to fix legacy bugs, let alone to fix w/in an acceptable remediation window.

Therefor, RASP, or no RASP, solely depends on the technology stack & time to remediate.