Breaking Down Jit’s New Approach to ASPM

Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) emerged to address gaps in traditional application and cloud security scanners – like SAST, SCA, secrets detection, IaC scanning, CSPM, and many others – that generate noisy alerts and silo security insights across various tools. By providing a consolidated view of product security risks that are prioritized according to their business and runtime context, ASPM helps security teams understand which issues truly matter.

However, existing ASPMs only solve part of the problem. While many offer improved risk visibility, they rely on a "shift right" approach – meaning vulnerabilities aren’t prioritized, triaged, and resolved until they’ve already reached production. As a result, vulnerabilities remain in production longer than they should be, while the disruptive cycle of triaging security issues back to developers persists.

Jit’s approach to ASPM reimagines this model by aligning ASPM with a “shift left” philosophy, ensuring developers can address issues before they make it to production. 

With Jit, organizations get the consolidation and prioritization benefits of ASPM, while also implementing a developer-friendly experience to proactively resolve vulnerabilities before production. 

Here’s how Jit’s Open ASPM Platform empowers developers to secure everything they code, while also enabling security teams to consolidate and prioritize the top risks in their environment.

Jit’s Approach: Realize the Best-of-Both-Worlds of ASPM and Shift-Left Security

Below are three core pillars of Jit’s platform that enables development and security teams to work together towards mitigating security risk, without slowing developers down.

1. A Single Platform to Align Every Team Around Product Security Risk Mitigation

Unlike many other ASPMs, which ingest data from existing scanners, Jit also provides a full suite of security scanners out-of-the-box. This simplifies the security stack and ensures that organizations don’t have to continually invest in and maintain a variety of tools. However, Jit’s approach remains flexible: security teams can import findings from additional third-party scanners and plug in Jit’s scanners as needed to fill gaps.

The open orchestration framework allows Jit to unify and streamline security scanner management, providing a cohesive UX for all tools. This approach enables security teams to orchestrate and view security data in one location, making it easier to track and act on vulnerabilities across the entire application stack.

All of Jit’s scanners, integrations, and reporting are grouped into various Security Plans. Each Security Plan makes it easy to implement product security programs that align to specific use cases and business objectives – like achieving SOC2 compliance or reducing the amount of unresolved critical vulnerabilities by X% – while iteratively managing progress toward the defined outcome. This is a uniquely Jit approach to product security management.

2. A Developer-First Approach to ASPM

Jit stands out in the ASPM field with its commitment to a developer-first approach, enabling developers to resolve security issues without needing deep security expertise. Jit is easy for developers to adopt, because they don’t need to learn a new tool to secure their code – all security feedback is embedded in their environment.

• Change-Based Scanning within Developer Environments: Jit integrates directly into developer systems, like GitHub, GitLab, or IDEs, so developers can detect and resolve issues without leaving their familiar environment. By scanning only the code changes, Jit focuses developer attention on preventing newly introduced vulnerabilities from entering production (rather than directing them to a backlog of existing issues).

• Auto Remediation Suggestions: Developers can resolve issues quickly with Jit’s recommended code fixes, which appear directly in their environment, making remediation as simple as a click.

• Context-Rich Feedback and False Positive Reduction: many security issues are deemed “false positives” because they don’t introduce real risk. Jit incorporates runtime and business context into its vulnerability details, helping developers understand the actual impact of each issue – like whether the code containing the issue will be deployed to a production environment, is accessible to the internet, or calls a sensitive database.

• Developer Security Portal: each development team gets their own dedicated portal to understand the top risks across their services. With security scores that grade each resource, teams can easily understand which resources need the most attention and monitor the posture of their services over time.

These developer-centric features enable developers to handle security independently, significantly reducing the need for security teams to manually review thousands of code changes and security issues. Other ASPMs fail to offer this level of integration and developer autonomy, which is why they struggle to gain adoption among development teams.

3. Prioritization Based on Runtime and Business Context

Jit goes beyond standard vulnerability scoring by using runtime and business context to inform prioritization. This is achieved by mapping the customer’s code pipeline and cloud environment, identifying each vulnerability’s true risk based on factors like whether the affected code is deployed in production, exposed to external traffic, or accesses sensitive data.

Security teams can view each issue’s knowledge graph, an automatically generated map showing the path of vulnerable code in production, deployment locations, and other context. This unique feature makes it easier for security teams to understand the actual risk an issue poses, rather than relying on generic severity scores.

Each vulnerability receives a priority score based on this rich context, helping teams focus on the most critical issues first. Additionally, Jit allows teams to adjust the priority model according to their own strategy, offering a degree of customization unavailable in other ASPM solutions.

Why Jit’s Shift-left Approach to ASPM Matters

Other ASPM providers still rely on a shift-right approach, which limits adoption among developers and results in security issues reaching production. They also fail to provide customizable prioritization models, restricting organizations to a one-size-fits-all prioritization strategy. Finally, they lack a cohesive framework for orchestrating disparate scanners, leading to fragmented security workflows.

Jit’s ASPM solution overcomes these limitations by providing a shift-left approach, developer-first integration, a unified orchestration framework, and rich prioritization customization. With Jit, organizations can empower their developers to resolve security issues early, streamline their security tools, and maintain a robust application security posture with greater efficiency and focus.

With Jit, ASPM is no longer about choosing between shifting right or left—it’s about empowering developers to secure applications from the start, while enabling security teams to effectively prioritize the top risks that reach production.