Application security startup Contrast Security Inc. today announced two new integrations for its Northstar platform with GitHub Copilot and Sumo Logic, expanding the reach of its runtime-native application detection and response solution.

The new release builds on Contrast’s Northstar release that was announced earlier this year with an offering of unified detection, remediation and observability into a single experience. Northstar is powered by the Contrast Graph, a real-time behavioral model of the application layer that maps attack surface, defenses and vulnerabilities to provide a rich context for app and application programming interface security demands.

Northstar also saw the introduction of SmartFix, an agentic artificial intelligence for auto-generating validated code fixes and Deployment Hub with Flex Agent, designed to make it easier to scale ADR across complex enterprise environments.

The new GitHub Copilot Integration allows developers to apply AI-generated fixes that are validated by live runtime evidence and, in doing so, bridge the gap between detection and developer action.

With the integration, SmartFix will work with GitHub Copilot to generate secure code fixes based on runtime vulnerability details, proven exploitability, attack details, defenses available and context from the Contrast’s Context Graph. The result streamlines remediation by delivering ready-to-review pull requests that are both context-aware and safe for production, helping developers resolve real issues faster without disrupting their workflow and ship with confidence.

The new Sumo Logic integration brings Contrast’s attack telemetry directly into Sumo Logic to allow security operation center teams to triage, investigate and respond with full application-layer context.

With the integration, security teams gain real-time visibility into exploit attempts, vulnerable code paths and application behavior, all enriched through the Contrast Graph. The integration of runtime intelligence into existing security information and event management workflows gives organizations the ability to stop breaches faster, reduce mean time to detect, cut investigation overhead, understand the blast radius and close the loop between AppSec and incident response.

The updates to the Northstar are said by Contrast to align with its vision of securing software across the full lifecycle, from production back to code, with a single, unified platform.

“ADR has always been about helping teams focus on what matters most by seeing what’s actually happening within their apps,” said Faya Peng, Contrast Security’s head of product and general manager of ADR. “These new integrations with GitHub Copilot and Sumo Logic just make that easier. Developers and security teams can now work from the same real-time data and take action faster, all within the tools they’re already using.”

Contrast Security is a venture capital-backed company that has raised $261 million over six rounds, including a round of $150 million on a $1 billion-plus valuation in November 2021. Investors in the company include Liberty Strategic Capital LP, Warburg Pincus, Battery Ventures LP, General Catalyst Group Management, Microsoft’s M-12 Fund, AXA Venture Partners S.A.S. and Acero Capital Management.

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