GuardRails is a comprehensive Application Security (AppSec) platform designed to integrate seamlessly into your development workflow, enhancing the security and quality of your software applications.
What GuardRails Does
GuardRails orchestrates both open-source and commercial security tools to detect and address security vulnerabilities in your application code. It automates the process of installing, configuring, and running these security tools, making it frictionless and efficient for developers to identify and fix security issues early in the software development lifecycle (SDLC).Key Features and Functionality
Version Control System Integration
GuardRails integrates with major Version Control Systems (VCS) such as GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, both in cloud and on-premise environments. This integration allows for end-to-end security verification across all repositories without additional configuration.Security Tool Orchestration
GuardRails automatically identifies the programming languages and frameworks in a repository and selects the appropriate security engines to run against the code. It de-duplicates similar results from different tools, ensuring that only new and relevant vulnerabilities are reported.Security Rules Curation
To minimize noise and focus on high-impact issues, GuardRails curates every security rule from the integrated tools. This curation ensures that only critical and relevant security issues are flagged, allowing developers to focus on shipping new features without unnecessary distractions.False Positive Detection
GuardRails employs an expert system and machine learning to detect and reduce false positives, increasing the accuracy of vulnerability detection. This feature ensures that engineers and security teams spend their time on actual security issues rather than false alarms.Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
GuardRails uses SAST to analyze source code without executing the program, enabling the detection of security vulnerabilities from the early stages of software development. This includes identifying issues such as SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), and other potential threats.Continuous Code Scanning
The platform performs continuous code scanning to identify security vulnerabilities as soon as new code changes are introduced. This real-time feedback loop allows developers to fix critical security issues early in the development process.Cloud Security Analysis
GuardRails extends its security analysis to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) configurations, supporting tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, Cloud Formation, and Ansible. This ensures that vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure are also identified and addressed.Customization and Configuration
The platform allows for the customization and configuration of scanning rules to align with project and organizational security standards, providing flexibility and adaptability to different development environments.Business Outcomes
- Reduced Time to Market: Continuous security scanning speeds up the shipping of software products and features.
- Reduced Engineering Cost: Real-time feedback enables developers to fix security issues early, reducing the need for external security support.
- Reduced Business Risk: Consistent security scanning across the entire product portfolio results in more secure software.
- Increased Visibility: Extensive security scan data provides deep insights into risk, accessible via dashboards and APIs.
- Improved Skills: Security scan data combined with development data helps identify training opportunities for engineers and teams.