Bionic

Bionic is an Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) platform developed by CrowdStrike. According to the vendor, it is designed to help organizations mitigate critical application risks in production by providing visibility into application artifacts, detecting potential vulnerabilities, and prioritizing them based on the context of the overall application architecture and environment. Bionic is said to be suitable for businesses of all sizes, ranging from small enterprises to large corporations. It caters to various professionals and industries, including Application Security Teams, IT Security Teams, DevOps Teams, Software Development Companies, and the Financial Services Industry.

Key Features

According to the vendor, Bionic offers the following features:

Application Inventory: Bionic utilizes an agentless approach to collect application artifacts, providing visibility into each service, dependency, and dataflow. The vendor claims that it continuously updates the inventory of services, message brokers, and databases as the application changes.

Application Security Posture: Bionic integrates into CI/CD pipelines and identifies critical application risks in production. It is said to detect application architecture drift, critical security risks, and potential data exposure. The platform is designed to visualize the application architecture and prioritize risks based on business context.

API Security: According to the vendor, Bionic analyzes code, checks for critical CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures), and provides insights into the blast radius of potential attack surfaces. It is claimed to offer out-of-the-box policies to determine the criticality of CVEs, CWEs (Common Weakness Enumerations), architectural risks, and data breaches.

Security Misconfigurations: Bionic identifies security misconfigurations in application environments, providing visibility into misconfigured settings that could lead to vulnerabilities. The platform offers recommendations and best practices to remediate security misconfigurations, according to the vendor.

Application Data Privacy: Bionic is said to help ensure application data privacy by identifying potential risks and vulnerabilities. It analyzes data flows and provides insights into potential privacy breaches. The platform allows for the creation of customized policies to prioritize data privacy based on specific requirements, according to the vendor.

Application Resiliency Posture: Bionic assesses the resiliency posture of applications, detecting vulnerabilities and weaknesses that could impact application availability and performance. It offers insights into potential points of failure and provides recommendations for improving application resiliency, according to the vendor.

Architecture & Configuration Drift: Bionic detects changes and drifts in application architecture and configurations, comparing the current state with the benchmarked architecture to identify discrepancies. It provides visibility into changes that could introduce security risks or impact application performance, according to the vendor.

Dynamic Software Bill-of-Materials (SBOM): Bionic creates a software bill-of-materials (SBOM) for each service, detailing every component, library, framework, and dependency. It helps organizations track and manage the components used in their applications and integrates with existing tools to ingest threats and vulnerabilities, according to the vendor.

Automated Policies & Notifications: Bionic enables the creation of automated policies and notification processes to streamline remediation. It is claimed to notify the appropriate teams with proper remediation best practices, ensuring efficient and effective vulnerability management.