Application Security overview (DPS)

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Application Security helps secure cloud-native and on-premise applications at runtime with intelligent automation. This includes visualizing, analyzing, and monitoring security vulnerabilities in your environment and blocking detected attacks on your applications.

This page describes the different application security capabilities and the features that they provide with a DPS subscription.

For information about how usage of a specific capability translates to consumption of your DPS license commit, see

Runtime Vulnerability Analytics

Dynatrace Runtime Vulnerability Analytics enables you to detect, visualize, analyze, and monitor the remediation of third-party and code-level vulnerabilities in your environment.

These vulnerabilities include

  • Third-party vulnerabilities, which can arise when your application uses a specific library or language runtime containing vulnerabilities.
  • Code-level vulnerabilities, which can arise when Dynatrace Application Security detects a vulnerability in your code by evaluating the requests passing through your applications.

Runtime Application Protection (RAP)

Dynatrace Runtime Application Protection leverages code-level insights and transaction analysis to detect and block attacks on your applications automatically and in real time.

Security Posture Management (SPM)

Security Posture Management (SPM) provides ongoing monitoring and automated assessment for Kubernetes® environments. With insights into configuration, compliance issues, and risk management, customers can maintain a strong security posture.

This includes Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM), which focuses on identifying and mitigating security risks in your Kubernetes clusters.

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