Automated Risk Resolution Workflows: Upgrade Your Vulnerability Management || Arnica

How Arnica Upgrades Your Vulnerability Management

Arnica has combined two key workflow enhancements that together transform the security vulnerability management process for developers to create Automated Risk Resolution Workflows: 

Enhanced ChatOps Integrations for Real-Time Risk Management: 

By upgrading our chatops integrations with Slack and Microsoft Teams to support magic links for risk findings, developers are able to interact with findings, if needed, from the tools they’re already using. In a single real-time chat notification, developers can get detailed information on vulnerabilities, resolution suggestions, and more without leaving their familiar workspace. This enhanced ChatOps integration with magic links, ensures that developers are empowered to respond efficiently to the most important vulnerabilities in real-time. 

Secure and Efficient Magic Links for Developers

While we’ve not invented the concept of magic links, we feel we’ve introduced the best way to use them in service of positive developer interactions. These time-limited, secure links provide developers with direct access to specific security findings directly from your chat applications, like Slack and Microsoft Teams. Arnica’s magic links deliver rich context for each alerted risk and provide access to cutting edge features without requiring additional permissions or requiring developers to be provisioned in Arnica – another critical empowerment of developers to positively impact security. 

Each magic link contains a single risk view which provides enriched context around the risk depending on the type. For example, graphical representations of package reputation risks, dependency trees to analyze vulnerabilities in transitive packages, or AI-generated code samples to mitigate SAST risks. 

Key Use Cases for Automated Risk Resolution Workflows

The introduction of Automated Risk Resolution Workflows unlocks a wide range of powerful use cases for the Application Security team and their collaboration with developers. 

• ‍Timely, Streamlined Vulnerability Management: Delivering magic links for high importance risks, directly to developers using ChatOps allows developers to manage and resolve the most important vulnerabilities without needing to leave their existing workflow. This streamlined approach reduces friction and increases mitigation rates. ‍
• Enhanced Collaboration & Efficiency: Sometimes developers need assistance or input on a risk or its corresponding fix. Developers are able to share specific findings with their colleagues, which facilitates real-time collaboration with all necessary context to act swiftly and efficiently to mitigate the risk. ‍
• Secure Access, Without Requiring A New Tool: Magic links in Arnica can be shared as read-only and can be time limited to ensure that, simultaneously, full context is shared with those who need it but that the sensitive information is accessible only to those who need it for limited time. This context is provided without requiring access to Arnica’s platform or your source code management tool. ‍
• Automated & AI-Driven Insights (At the Right Time): Arnica’s Static Application Security Testing (SAST) findings, delivered to the developer in a magic link via ChatOps, containing AI-generated risk mitigation recommendations along with detailed vulnerability analysis. Developers can use this rich context and mitigation recommendation to fix the risk promptly and efficiently. ‍
• Optimized Review & Approval Process: Magic links and ChatOps together facilitate a more efficient review and approval process. Developers can quickly review findings, dismiss false positives, or mark risks as tolerable, all within their chat tool. This integrated approach reduces friction and steps required for approvals.  

Arnica’s powerful new feature, Automated Risk Resolution Workflows, delivers a powerful, integrated solution for AppSec and developers that enhances the efficiency, collaboration, and effectiveness of security vulnerability management. This feature ensures that developers can focus on mitigating the most important risks quickly, with all the necessary context and tools at their disposal.

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