Gartner Application Security Tools

The integration of multiple tools provides a comprehensive overview for developers and security professionals into multiple aspects of application security that are often treated as separate silos.

Gartner application security tools.

Gartner makes a distinction between broadening and deepening two strong trends observed this year in ast tools. Gartner s magic quadrant for application security testing march 2018. This magic quadrant provides interesting changes in market leaders as well as new additions hoping to level the playing field. 18 june 2020 id.

Gartner critical capabilities reports are essential companion research notes to the gartner magic quadrant with deeper. While specific to network oriented tools a. The micro focus fortify application security platform has received the highest score in the 2020 gartner critical capabilities for application security testing report for the enterprise use case and the mobile and client use case. In the published document gartner defines the application security testing ast market as the buyers and sellers of products and services designed to analyze and test applications for security vulnerabilities according to gartner we identify four main ast technologies.

The sectools top 125 network security tools which is continuously updated. Gartner magic quadrant for application security testing 29 april 2020 gartner does not endorse any vendor product or service depicted in its research publications and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner defines the application security testing ast market as the buyers and sellers of products and services designed to analyze and test applications for security vulnerabilities. Bugs and weaknesses in software are common.

Like previous years the 2020 gartner magic quadrant for application security testing dives deep into the top vendors and companies providing transformational technologies that focus on the future needs of end users. 84 percent of software breaches exploit vulnerabilities at the application layer the prevalence of software related problems is a key motivation for using application security testing ast tools. With a growing number of application security testing tools available it can be confusing for information technology it leaders developers and. 1 static ast sast 2 dynamic ast dast 3 interactive ast iast 4 mobile ast.

Gartner identifies four main styles of ast. Gartner s key takeaways on the ast market at time of report publication.