Corgea is excited to announce the release of PolicyIQ, a groundbreaking new feature that addresses the limitations of traditional static application security testing (SAST) tools. With PolicyIQ, you can provide rich business context to enhance Corgea's security analysis capabilities, resulting in more accurate vulnerability detection, reduced false positives, and more effective remediation strategies.

The Challenge: Static Rulesets Fall Short

Traditional SAST tools rely on static, one-size-fits-all rulesets that fail to account for the nuances of an organization's unique infrastructure, security controls, and business logic. These proprietary rulesets often require extensive learning and customization efforts, yet still struggle to provide contextually relevant results. As a result, security teams spend countless hours triaging false positives and implementing ineffective fixes, hindering their ability to address real security issues efficiently.

Here are some examples of failures in traditional static rulesets used by SAST tools:

• Lack of business context, failing to account for legitimate use cases, compensating controls, and data handling requirements

• Inability to understand custom frameworks, libraries, and security components tailored to an organization's needs

• Failure to consider network segregation, trust boundaries, and security zones within the infrastructure

• Ignoring valuable organizational tribal knowledge about codebases, security practices, and exceptions

• Inability to adapt quickly to evolving threats and new attack vectors

• Lack of context for industry-specific compliance and regulatory requirements

The Solution: PolicyIQ – Contextual Security Analysis

PolicyIQ empowers you to enrich Corgea with detailed information about your business domain, network architecture, data handling requirements, and compliance obligations. By providing this context through intuitive policies, you can help Corgea better understand your specific security needs and infrastructure, enabling more accurate and relevant security analysis.

How It Works

1. Define Business Context: Start by creating policies that capture the nuances of your environment, such as security controls, data classification rules, and compliance requirements.

2. Specify Vulnerability Types: Select the types of security vulnerabilities you want the policy to address, based on your risk profile.

3. Provide Examples: Include relevant code examples that reflect your actual infrastructure, security controls, and development patterns.

4. Apply to Projects: Assign policies to specific projects, allowing for environment-specific security analysis.

5. Enforce Security Guardrails: Use policies to define and implement security guardrails, ensuring that your applications adhere to your organization's security standards and best practices.

What You Can Do With PolicyIQ

PolicyIQ enables companies to:

• Tailor vulnerability detection to your environment by specifying data handling rules, trust boundaries, and validation requirements

• Reduce false positives by providing context on legitimate security controls, exceptions, and network segregation

• Align remediation guidance with your frameworks, coding patterns, and infrastructure constraints

• Codify compliance obligations and security guardrails into enforceable policies

Here are several examples by industry:

• Financial Services: Enforce data encryption and compensating controls for sensitive information for banking and payment security like the PCI standards

• Healthcare: Ensure HIPAA compliance and safeguard PHI through custom security frameworks

• E-commerce: Validate authentication, authorization, and input sanitization to prevent vulnerabilities

• Government: Adhere to stringent standards like FedRAMP while accommodating legacy systems

• SaaS: Maintain secure isolation, access controls, and data segregation in multi-tenant apps

• IoT: Address unique challenges like embedded security, firmware updates, and constrained device communication

By leveraging contextual policies, you can drive more accurate and actionable security analysis tailored to your unique business needs.

Why PolicyIQ is a Game-Changer

Unlike traditional SAST tools with static, proprietary rulesets, PolicyIQ allows you to infuse Corgea with your organization's unique context and tribal knowledge. By providing rich business context, you can increase the accuracy and relevance of Corgea's findings, reducing the time and effort spent triaging false positives and implementing ineffective fixes. This contextual approach empowers your team to focus on addressing real security issues more efficiently, while aligning with your specific business needs and infrastructure. Additionally, PolicyIQ enables you to enforce consistent security guardrails across your applications, promoting a secure-by-design approach and reducing the risk of security vulnerabilities.

Whether you're a security engineer, software developer, or CISO, PolicyIQ is a game-changer for organizations seeking to enhance their security posture through contextually relevant, accurate, and actionable security analysis, while ensuring adherence to security standards and best practices.

To learn more, please reach out to us or learn more about PolicyIQ from our docs.