Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) Glossary Definition

Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) is an approach for centralizing visibility into application-security findings, risks, ownership, and remediation status.

ASPM helps security and development teams prioritize issues across code, dependencies, pipelines, and deployed applications.

Security leaders use ASPM to reduce alert fragmentation, prioritize exploitable risks, and connect code, dependencies, pipelines, and deployed applications. This is an emerging term, so teams should verify how a specific source, platform, or standard uses it before treating it as a settled category.

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Related concepts include DevSecOps and Software Composition Analysis.