Having a central protections platform for application security requires a deep understanding of issues and product capabilities. Protecting your enterprise application collection requires near-constant vigilance and a careful choice of the right collection of defensive tools. As threats continue to become more complex and difficult to discover, applications have also become more complex and bridge the worlds of cloud, containers, and on premises. This presents all sorts of challenges for tools which have struggled to keep pace.

The latest category of products goes by the moniker of application security posture managers, or ASPM. I review seven different tools from these vendors in my latest post for CSOonline:

• ArmorCode
• Crowdstrike
• Cycode
• Ivanti
• Legit Security
• Nucleus Security
• Wiz