Dynatrace, which provides a software intelligence platform to monitor and optimise application development, performance, and IT infrastructure, announced new features to enhance the capabilities of its security module.
The company said that the module would enable enterprises to detect and block application attacks automatically and in real-time. This will help the companies protect their apps in real-time and accelerate DevSecOps automation, allowing their teams to increase the security of their digital services and accelerate throughput.
“Adopting a DevSecOps-approach to cover application security end-to-end help, but simply shifting left is not enough. To avoid becoming overwhelmed and staying proactive, innovative and secure, development teams increasingly need better intelligence and automation,” said Steve Tack, SVP of product management at Dynatrace.
“On top of our ability to identify, prioritise and locate, we are thrilled to enable organisations to block attacks in real-time automatically. As a result, they can mitigate risk across the SDLC [software development lifecycle], accelerate throughput, and secure modern cloud workloads and applications,” he added.
Before this update, which will be generally available within 90 days, Dynatrace’s software intelligence platform’s security module offered automatic detection of runtime vulnerabilities such as Log4Shell in cloud-native applications and container workloads.
The offering also includes Smartscape, a topology visualisation tool that provides complete visibility up and down the entire application stack, and an AI engine that provides real-time visibility and prioritisation of the vulnerabilities running in pre-production and production environments, including containers and Kubernetes runtimes.
Other platform improvements
Dynatrace announced the plan to extend its platform’s broad observability and advanced AIops capabilities from AWS Lambda to all major serverless architectures, including Microsoft Azure Functions and Google Cloud Functions. The company is also working to deliver its product as code so that developers adopting everything-as-code practices can easily incorporate software intelligence capabilities into their applications.
All these updates come as the competition in the general software intelligence and observability space continues to heat up. Apart from Dynatrace, several vendors are active in this segment, including DataDog, New Relic, and Cisco’s AppDynamics. New Relic, in particular, has been arming up with frequent product updates. Last year, the company added a visualisation tool dubbed New Relic Explorer to simplify IT professionals to discover the root cause of issues with an application. And, just recently, it launched a solution to monitor the performance and accuracy of ML models in real-time.
Globally, the IT monitoring and observability market is estimated to be a $17 billion market opportunity.
