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Closing the Gap: Why ADR Is Crucial for Application Security

Security operations teams struggle with a visibility gap in the application layer, where much of the risk resides. That's why Contrast Security built a new solution called Application Detection and Response, or ADR. According to Jeff Williams, founder and CTO of Contrast Security, ADR gives security teams detailed insights into application behavior and how to defend against complex threats.

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"We trust everything that's valuable in our lives to software, but we're not doing much to protect it. ADR is attempting to fill that gap," he explained. ADR embeds agents directly into applications to monitor and analyze activity in development, pre-production, and production.

"Organizations have EDR products to protect endpoints and CDR to protect the cloud, but there's no ADR," Williams said. "ADR reports unwanted behavior to your SIEM or your XDR or CNAPP and gives you control back over something that has been invisible."

In this video interview with Information Security Media Group at Black Hat 2024, Williams also discussed:

• The evolution of attacks on applications and how exploits go undetected until it’s too late;
• Key features of ADR including security observability and detailed, context-rich reporting;
• The importance of blocking, not just detecting, threats to mitigate attacks.

Jeff Williams has worked in application security for more than 25 years. Before he founded Contrast Security, he founded Aspect Security and was the Global Chairman for OWASP, where he created the original OWASP Top 10. To learn more about Contrast Security, click here.