Last week, ActiveState participated in the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit in National Harbor, Maryland, an event that consistently brings together the brightest minds in cybersecurity and risk management. As organizations grapple with an ever-evolving threat landscape and the complexities of modern software development, our presence at the summit underscored ActiveState’s commitment to delivering innovative solutions that directly address these pressing challenges.
The conversations at the summit, from keynotes to intimate solution provider sessions, reinforced a critical truth: traditional vulnerability management is no longer enough. The sheer volume of vulnerabilities, coupled with the increasing adoption of open source components and containerized environments, has created a remediation bottleneck that overwhelms even the most dedicated security teams. This is precisely where ActiveState’s intelligent remediation narrative resonated so strongly.
Attendees showed significant interest in how ActiveState is transforming security operations from reactive detection to proactive solutions for vulnerabilities, moving beyond merely identifying them to actively delivering fixes. Our intelligent remediation approach leverages AI-powered analysis and automated, end-to-end processes to:
- Prioritize with Precision: Moving beyond the overwhelming volume of alerts, we showcased how ActiveState’s platform, featuring the Risk Prioritization Copilot, intelligently prioritizes vulnerabilities. Instead of chasing every single CVE, our approach leverages AI-powered analysis and deep dependency intelligence to focus on their actual impact within an organization’s specific context. This includes assessing factors like Vulnerability Blast Radius to understand the full scope, proactive breaking change detection, exploitability, and business criticality. This empowers security and development teams to transform from “alert overload to action,” directing their efforts where they matter most and accelerating security processes from legal to development.
- Deliver Intelligent Fixes: The “last mile” of vulnerability management—applying the fix—is often the most challenging. We demonstrated ActiveState’s Precision Remediation Pipeline, which transforms security operations from providing suggestions to delivering actual solutions. This pipeline automates the secure building and packaging of remediated open-source components, including transitive dependencies, for various languages and platforms. By enabling automated component-level intervention, secure build generation from source, and extensible integration with existing CI/CD pipelines and toolchains, ActiveState eliminates the manual toil, dependency conflicts, and breaking changes that often plague traditional remediation efforts. This significantly accelerates time to fix, shrinking remediation cycles from months to hours.
- Streamline Container Security: The widespread adoption of containers introduces new layers of complexity for vulnerability management. Our discussions highlighted how ActiveState’s intelligent remediation extends seamlessly into containerized environments, offering Secure Containers that go beyond basic hardened base images. ActiveState provides low-to-no CVE container images that are customizable using its catalog of over 40M+ vetted open source components, ensuring that components within containers are not only identified for vulnerabilities but are also efficiently updated and deployed with secure, compliant versions. This comprehensive approach is crucial for maintaining a strong security posture and simplifying compliance in dynamic container orchestration platforms, helping teams eliminate manual patching cycles and streamline CI/CD integration.
Throughout the summit, we engaged with CISOs, security architects, and DevSecOps leaders who are actively seeking ways to bridge the gap between security and development, making security an inherent part of the development lifecycle rather than an afterthought. Our message of empowering developers with secure, ready-to-use open source components, while providing security teams with unparalleled visibility and control, struck a chord.
We heard loud and clear from attendees that, “Vulnerability management is a constant pain point. Their existing cloud security tools and even their vulnerability scanners, mostly just find and assign issues; they don’t actually help them with the remediation itself.”
They’re not always directly responsible for fixing everything, but they need much better visibility into ‘who has what’ across their organization, and a way to connect effectively with other departments. So much that, “the idea of proactive breaking change detection makes a lot of sense, and I’ll be sharing that with my organization. We currently struggle with managing vulnerabilities, often relying on a manual daily scanning process. We were particularly interested in how ActiveState scans packages and requirements to deliver low-to-no CVE containers and secure package repositories.” The ActiveState catalogs are a vital component of this, and the emphasis on integrating policy with developer innovation truly resonated, as it helps customers enhance security while critically giving our developers time back to innovate on core features.
The conversations also reinforced the growing need for proactive security measures and a shift left in the SDLC. By integrating intelligent remediation earlier in the development process, organizations can significantly reduce their attack surface and minimize the costly and time-consuming process of fixing vulnerabilities in production.
ActiveState left the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit energized by the strong interest in our intelligent remediation capabilities. We’re confident that our focus on automating and streamlining the entire vulnerability lifecycle, especially in complex container environments, is directly aligned with the evolving needs of the cybersecurity landscape.
We look forward to continuing these vital conversations and helping organizations build more secure, resilient software supply chains. Are you ready for a conversation today? Sign up to get a demo today.
