The Future of AppSec: Advanced Runtime Security with ThreatX Prevent 

PUBLISHED ON December 19, 2024
LAST UPDATED Dec 19, 2024

A unified solution for discovering, monitoring, and securing services across modern application/API ecosystems 

Today, ThreatX is proud to introduce the ThreatX Prevent Service Catalog, a groundbreaking step toward the future of application security. Designed to meet the dynamic demands of modern cybersecurity, the Service Catalog supports Kubernetes-based deployments and containerized EC2 deployments, ensuring compatibility with modern infrastructure. This solution is always active and always on, delivering continuous observability and visibility to empower your team like never before. 

As organizations deploy services at unprecedented scales, traditional scanners often miss critical vulnerabilities and fail to provide actionable insights. The growing volume and complexity of services—spread across environments and teams—make maintaining accurate inventories, identifying vulnerabilities in real time, and streamlining operations increasingly challenging. The ThreatX Service Catalog overcomes these challenges, providing a single pane of glass for comprehensive service visibility and management, so you can detect vulnerabilities and confidently prioritize responses. 

What is a Service? 

Before continuing, let’s clarify what we mean by “service.” A service typically represents an encapsulation of an API or set of APIs, deployed within environments such as Kubernetes or containerized EC2, for example. By focusing on these widely used deployment models, the ThreatX Service Catalog ensures teams can maintain an accurate and actionable inventory tailored to modern infrastructure.  

Scaling Smarter: Focus on What Matters Most

Managing hundreds or even thousands of services can feel overwhelming, but the ThreatX Service Catalog’s always-active discovery and observability makes it easier. It offers always-on runtime security that connects seamlessly with other ThreatX dashboards, giving you a clear, complete view of your services and security system. 

Effortless Scalability 

  • Intuitive Interface: Ensures teams can get started quickly. 
  • Deep Linking: Seamlessly navigate between services, vulnerabilities, and runtime events, saving time and reducing frustration. 
  • Centralized Dashboard: Offers a clear view of services, showing which ones are active, deprecated, or unused, and maps them to their owners, ensuring accountability.  

Comprehensive Visibility 

  • Visibility is just the starting point; the real power lies in knowing what to focus on.
  • Filtering Options and Real-Time Data: Make it easy to isolate specific services or endpoints for analysis, ensuring nothing gets overlooked. 

Smart Prioritization 

  • Risk-Based Prioritization: Ranks vulnerabilities and services based on factors like vulnerability severity, business impact, or usage patterns. This ensures critical vulnerabilities are resolved first. 

The ThreatX Service Catalog ensures your organization stays secure and efficient, no matter how complex your environment is. 

Challenge  The Problem  How the
Service Catalog Helps  
 Lack of Visibility and Discovery  Teams struggle to know what’s running, where, or why, leading to security vulnerabilities. Provides a centralized dashboard that automatically inventories all services. Filter and view active and inactive services to eliminate oversight. 
Inefficient Prioritization Without a clear way to prioritize risks, teams waste time on low-impact problems. Empowers teams with risk-based prioritization, ranking services risk, ensuring critical issues are addressed first. 
Improving Service Utilization  Teams often struggle to optimize service usage, leading to wasted resources and increased costs. Provides actionable insights into service activity, enabling teams to streamline operations and focus resources effectively. 

Facing Challenges Head-On 

Managing services in today’s dynamic environments comes with its fair share of hurdles. The ThreatX Service Catalog tackles these challenges with powerful solutions, ensuring your teams stay ahead of the curve. 

Empowering Teams Across the Organization 

The ThreatX Service Catalog is built to support every team member in your organization, tailoring its capabilities to meet their needs: 

  • Security Engineers: Easily discover and inventory services, proactively identifying risks and addressing critical vulnerabilities. 
  • Directors of Information Security: Gain a complete view of service security, track KPIs, prioritize initiatives, and allocate resources effectively. 
  • Software Engineers: Receive real-time feedback on running services, addressing security issues early during development. 
  • DevOps Teams: Monitor security metrics from a single dashboard, ensuring smooth and stable operations. 

By bridging these roles, the Service Catalog provides observability and visibility of running services and security issues within a unified solution. 

Why Accurate Service Inventories Matter 

Enterprises manage an overwhelming number of services—active, deprecated, or somewhere in between. Without a precise inventory, it becomes nearly impossible to: 

  • Gain a comprehensive understanding of deployed services. 
  • Identify and address unused or underutilized resources. 
  • Assign critical issues to the appropriate teams for swift resolution. 

The ThreatX Service Catalog is more than just a tool—it’s your partner in building a smarter, more secure enterprise. By delivering a clear, actionable view of your service landscape, it empowers organizations to reduce risks, streamline workflows, and facilitate seamless collaboration across teams. With ThreatX, you gain the clarity to uncover the unknown, the focus to address the critical, and the confidence to protect your enterprise now and into the future.Ready to transform the way you manage and secure your services? Join us and experience the power of the ThreatX Service Catalog today.

About the Author

Bret Settle

Bret has served in multiple executive roles for Corporate Express/Staples and BMC Software and has extensive knowledge of the software development and security products industries. Bret has been responsible for enterprise security in multiple roles and has been an innovator throughout his career and has a proven track record of building and developing high performing organizations and dynamic cyber security teams.