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Overview

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Application security posture management (ASPM) is the foundation of modern ASPM security practices. It provides a centralized way to unify results across testing tools, streamline workflows, and align vulnerabilities with business priorities. As part of a unified application security platform, ASPM enables organizations to improve application security risk management by delivering actionable insights and continuous visibility across the software development lifecycle.

Application security posture management (ASPM)

Why is ASPM important?

Today’s enterprises rely on a growing number of applications, APIs, and software components. At the same time, development velocity has increased, creating a flood of security data from multiple testing tools like SAST, DAST, SCA, IaC, API testing, and more.

Without ASPM, security teams often face:

  • Fragmented visibility across tools and pipelines.
  • A backlog of unprioritized vulnerabilities.
  • Limited context for aligning risk with business impact.
  • Manual, siloed workflows that slow down DevSecOps.

By delivering AppSec orchestration and visibility, ASPM transforms this complexity into clarity. It consolidates findings, enriches them with business context, and drives smarter remediation decisions.

How does ASPM work?

ASPM integrates directly with developer tools, CI/CD pipelines, and governance systems to provide a unified application security platform for collaboration between developers, security, and operations.

Key capabilities include:

  • Centralized visibility: Consolidate all application testing results in one view.
  • Application security risk management: Prioritize vulnerabilities by severity, exploitability, and business impact.
  • AppSec orchestration and visibility: Automate workflows across developer pipelines and ticketing systems.
  • Policy enforcement: Apply consistent rules, such as “fail the build” or “hold the release.”
  • Continuous monitoring: Track posture as applications evolve over time.

Benefits of ASPM

  • Risk reduction: Improve application security risk management by focusing on the vulnerabilities that matter most.
  • Operational efficiency: Eliminate noise with deduplication, correlation, and automation.
  • AppSec orchestration and visibility: Break down silos between dev, sec, and ops teams.
  • Compliance support: Map results to standards and regulatory frameworks.
  • Unified application security platform: Provide executives with a single source of truth for application risk.

ASPM with OpenText™ Application Security

The OpenText Application Security platform includes ASPM at its core, powering policy, workflows, reporting, compliance, and orchestration across SAST, DAST, SCA, IaC, and API security testing.

  • Extensive ecosystem: Pre-built integrations for IDEs, source control, CI/CD, ticketing, ITSM, and risk management platforms.
  • AI augmentation: GenAI-powered tools like SAST Aviator reduce false positives and accelerate remediation.
  • Flexible deployment: SaaS, private cloud, or on-premises models, including FedRAMP and Iron Bank options.
  • Developer empowerment: Secure Code Warrior integration delivers just-in-time training to upskill developers.
  • Enterprise scalability: Support for millions of APIs, 1,700+ vulnerability categories, and global enterprise environments.

Key takeaways

ASPM security provides the AppSec orchestration and visibility organizations need to power effective application security risk management within a unified application security platform.

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