Legit Security adds a new, adaptive Legit Posture Score and consolidates cross-industry best practices and regulatory frameworks to operationalize ASPM and benchmark real-time posture performance

The ASPM leader makes obsolete and siled Application Security Testing (AST) scores meaningless and introduces a new, universal and fully transparent Legit Posture Score to facilitate dynamic health monitoring and management across the SDLC.

BOSTON, Oct 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Real securityThe leading Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) provider, providing end-to-end visibility and protection across the entire software factory, today introduced its new Legit Posture Score, providing a dynamic, comprehensive and fully transparent ASPM scoring system. Now security teams can proactively and instantly measure and manage their AppSec posture with a holistic score that eliminates security scanning silos and continuously assesses all associated risks, policies and controls throughout today's Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

(FIGURE 1: Executive Dashboard View of Legit Posture Score Summary and Trends)

(FIGURE 2: Granular Legit Posture Score Rating Model)

Today, security leaders simply have difficulty understanding, let alone acting on or improving, the security posture of their applications. You're left with tons of security findings and unpatched vulnerabilities from disconnected application security testing (AST) tools and no efficient way to prioritize or respond to the issues uncovered. According to a 2024 survey by ESG Research 42% of security professionals believe that measuring and improving the effectiveness of AppSec programs is their biggest challenge today.¹ And with increasingly complex and distributed software factories, increasingly stringent supply chain regulations, and agile development teams that continue to prioritize code builds over security reviews, the ability to manually track an organization's application security posture is becoming less feasible by the day.

With the new Legit Posture Score, AppSec teams no longer have to piece together visibility snippets from disparate security scanners and obfuscated, proprietary scores. The Legit Posture Score establishes a new, universal, and fully transparent application security assessment standard that allows security teams to measure, operationalize, and accelerate AppSec maturity across the SDLC. It considers thousands of ASPM factors and consolidates the broad CI/CD pipeline context from code to cloud, including asset criticality, security scan results, vulnerability severity, and more, while maintaining the mitigating controls and requirements of Best -Practice industry standards are dynamically mapped regulatory framework conditions in a holistic ASPM score.

The new Legit Posture Score allows AppSec teams to quickly and at-a-glance identify posture gaps and trends, assess performance, and drive continuous improvement in their software development environments. With a holistic health score that considers a broad range of cybersecurity, regulatory and operational risks, AppSec teams can now intuitively – and automatically – first view, prioritize and remediate the issues with the greatest impact on the business.

Key Features of the New Legit Posture Score:

Real-time AppSec health assessment from code to cloud: The new Legit Posture Score assesses every aspect of an organization's application security posture, from the development pipeline to the repository level. This top-down approach enables a detailed understanding of AppSec risks to answer the same critical question asked at every level of the organization: Is my software being developed securely?
Transparent, explainable framework – no disguised or proprietary assessment: The Legit Posture Score evaluation method is completely transparent. With detailed documentation and complete transparency into how every variable and calculation is performed, AppSec teams can now prioritize and take action with an outcome they believe in and can own.
Dynamic, customizable model: Security teams can easily customize the assessment model to meet their specific security goals. They can link new and existing controls to the complex requirements of a variety of industry standards and regulatory frameworks (e.g. FedRAMP, SOC 2 Type II, etc.), ensuring that the Legit Posture Score always closely aligns with their strategic security objectives and commitments.
Intuitive, actionable insights: The Legit Posture Score is designed for all developers and security professionals to quickly and intuitively gain insight, triage issues, and prioritize fixes with surgical precision throughout their SDLC. With modern dashboards and intuitive drill-down navigation, AppSec leaders can seamlessly benchmark and benchmark status performance against any number of predefined applications, asset groups, pipelines, or organizational segments.
Broad inclusion of cross-industry best practices and standards: The Legit Posture Score incorporates application security best practices and requirements from the most important regulations and industry frameworks in the market today (including NIST SSDF, SLSA, OSSF S2C2F, ISO 27001, and more), setting a new vision for security and efficiency Software factory out today.

We empower organizations with security confidence

“The Legit Posture Score provides organizations with an objective, reliable and easy-to-understand measurement of their security posture across the SDLC in real time,” he said Lior BarakCo-founder and Chief Product and Engineering Officer at Legit Security. “By integrating an incredibly broad set of ASPM parameters and best practice frameworks into our scoring model and comparing all of this with our comprehensive, unmatched SDLC visibility, the new Legit Posture Score not only enables security teams to quickly identify and Not only to prioritize solving critical problems, but also to establish a true DevSecOps culture while continuously driving improvements.”

This new feature further enhances the Legit ASPM platform, providing security and development teams the ability to measure, compare, and improve the security posture of their applications over time to ensure their software factories and applications in development are operating with the The highest security standards are created.

To learn more about Legit Security and its market-leading ASPM platform, please visit legitsecurity.com.

ESG research survey
¹ Source: Enterprise Strategy Group research report, Modernizing application security for cloud-native development, August 16, 2024.

About legitimate security
Legit is a new way to manage your application's security posture for security, product, and compliance teams. With Legit, organizations gain a cleaner, simpler way to manage and scale application security and manage risk from code to cloud. Designed for the modern SDLC, Legit tackles the toughest issues security teams face, including GenAI usage, secret proliferation, and an uncontrolled development environment. Legit is quick to implement and easy to use. It enables security teams to protect their software factory from start to finish, provides developers with guardrails that allow them to do their best work safely, and provides metrics that demonstrate the success of the security program. This new approach means teams can control and demonstrate risk across the organization.

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