Nucleus Security Positioned as a Growth Leader in Frost Radar: Application Security Posture Management, 2024

In September 2024, Frost & Sullivan released its Frost Radar: Application Security Posture Management (ASPM), 2024, highlighting the leaders in this rapidly growing market. We’re proud to be recognized as a top player, reflecting our strong growth and impact in the ASPM space.

Our customers use Nucleus to achieve a comprehensive and unified application security posture. We’ve accomplished this by building a vulnerability management platform that addresses significant application security challenges out of the box. By combining that platform with strategic ASPM partnerships and integrations, we ensure our customers have the tools they need to manage application security risks effectively.

Key Trends in ASPM 

The Frost Radar report emphasizes several key factors driving the adoption of ASPM solutions. As modern software development becomes more complex, organizations face an overwhelming volume of vulnerabilities and security alerts. This has created a pressing need for solutions that offer a holistic view of the entire application security landscape, particularly through the lens of a DevSecOps approach. 

Some critical trends identified include: 

• Shift-left security: The growing importance of integrating security early in the development cycle to address risks before deployment. 
• AI-driven development: The use of AI-generated code and large language models (LLMs) is accelerating, but it also introduces new vulnerabilities. 
• Cloud-native applications: As organizations move more workloads to the cloud, ASPM helps manage cloud-specific risks. 

Nucleus Security’s Role in ASPM 

Though not a dedicated ASPM platform, Nucleus Security brings considerable value by integrating with top ASPM providers, allowing its customers to manage their application risks more effectively. By aggregating data from multiple security tools, Nucleus offers a consolidated view of vulnerabilities across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). This is a key factor in enabling risk-based prioritization, which ensures that security teams focus on the most critical issues. We achieve this through our: 

• Partnership with ASPM leaders: Nucleus seamlessly integrates with leading ASPM vendors, giving its users comprehensive coverage across code and cloud environments. This ensures that customers benefit from a unified security strategy, combining Nucleus’ strength in vulnerability management with the advanced capabilities of ASPM tools. 
• Holistic Risk Management: By correlating data from third-party tools, Nucleus helps organizations prioritize vulnerabilities based on exploitability, reachability, and business impact. This data-driven approach to vulnerability management is critical for large enterprises managing vast application landscapes. 

One of our ASPM integration partners, Cycode, helped shed some light on how unified vulnerability management and ASPM solutions can work closely together. 

“The integration and partnership between Cycode’s Complete ASPM and Nucleus are a realization by our companies that RBVM and ASPM require unique expertise and focus,” said Seth Robbins, CRO of Cycode. “We’re proud to provide our application security domain expertise to joint customers and allow them to take advantage of Nucleus’s RBVM platform. Cycode is focused on being a best-in-class ASPM, Nucleus is focused on being the best-in-class RBVM.” 

ASPM Market Growth and Nucleus’ Position 

The ASPM market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30.1% over the next five years. This growth is driven by the increasing demand for solutions that offer centralized control and visibility across development, testing, and production environments. 

Nucleus Security’s ability to work with all industry players, particularly through its position in the ASPM ecosystem, has allowed it to capitalize on this market growth. Frost & Sullivan highlighted Nucleus as one of the market leaders, particularly on the Growth Index, with impressive year-over-year market growth rates in 2023 and 2024. This positions Nucleus to continue expanding its footprint in the ASPM space, leveraging its strong partnerships to deliver robust application security solutions. 

Maintaining ASPM Leadership with Our Partners 

As organizations face the challenges of modern application security, solutions like Nucleus Security, in collaboration with leading ASPM providers, play an essential role in helping enterprises maintain control over their application security posture. By offering flexibility, strong partnerships, and a focus on risk-based vulnerability management, Nucleus ensures that its customers are well-equipped to navigate the complex security landscape ahead. 

“By integrating Cycode’s application security insights with Nucleus’s RBVM platform, organizations get the best of both worlds,” said Robbins. “Deep application security insights and visibility into the SDLC from Cycode as well as enterprise-wide risk management, automation, operationalization, and scale from Nucleus’s RBVM. This is a comprehensive approach to security ensuring alignment with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.” 

Nucleus continues to lead by example in the application security market, driving growth through innovation and collaboration. By working closely with its ASPM partners, Nucleus delivers a more secure, resilient approach to managing the increasing risks faced by modern applications.