Contrast Security Named a Visionary in the 2022 Gartner® "Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing"

LOS ALTOS, Calif., May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Contrast Security (Contrast), the leader in code security that empowers developers to secure-as-they code, today announced it was named by Gartner in the "Visionaries" Quadrant in the new "Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing" for 2022.

Contrast Secure Code Platform is the only platform on the market that embeds intelligent agents directly into the code to enable developers to detect vulnerabilities across the entire software development life cycle (SDLC), including during and post-production. Contrast's application security (AppSec) platform leverages security instrumentation that unlocks route intelligence to automate vulnerability identification and remediation of vulnerability fixes while virtually eliminating false positives and false negatives.

The Contrast Secure Code Platform is uniquely adapted for modern software in three ways:

• Cloud-Native -- The Platform is designed to instrument custom code, libraries, frameworks, containers, APIs, serverless and third-party services in order to build a unified picture that takes the full context into account.
• Developer-Centric -- Contrast becomes part of existing automated testing during the normal pipeline, providing instant feedback to development and security teams, resulting in 20x faster MTTR and a project VER of less than 1 new vulnerability per month.
• Full Lifecycle -- Contrast is the only code security platform that integrates development vulnerability detection with runtime visibility and protection for seamless handling of problems such as Log4J and Spring4Shell.

"The combination of increasing cyber attack vectors and the complexities required to effectively build security into the application development process has shown that traditional appsec testing solutions have fallen behind in several critical areas," said Steven Phillips, Vice President of Product Marketing at Contrast Security. "Contrast Security is focused on innovating its solutions to keep up with the evolving threat landscape and continues to be the only AppSec provider that embeds its agent directly into the CI/CD [continuous integration/continuous deployment]. This inside-out approach enables developers to continuously assess and protect applications throughout pre-, during, and post-deployment with utmost accuracy."

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In addition to being named an Application Security Testing Visionary, Contrast has also named a 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for the 3rd year in a row for Application Security Testing. A full, complimentary copy of Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing" for April 2022 can be downloaded here.

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About Contrast Security:
Contrast Security secures the code that global business relies on. It is the industry's most modern and comprehensive Code Security Platform, removing security roadblock inefficiencies and empowering enterprise developers to write and release secure application code faster. Embedding code analysis and attack prevention directly into software with instrumentation, the Contrast platform automatically detects vulnerabilities while developers write code, eliminates false positives, and provides context-specific how-to-fix guidance for easy and fast vulnerability remediation. Doing so enables application and development teams to collaborate more effectively and to innovate faster while accelerating digital transformation initiatives. This is why a growing number of the world's largest private and public sector organizations rely on Contrast to secure their applications in development and extend protection to cloud and on-premise applications in production.

Media Contact: 
Laura Asendio
Public Relations Manager
Contrast Security 
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