Code-to-Cloud Posture Management | Uptycs

Modern software development has evolved into a fast-paced, automated pipeline that spans development environments, CI/CD systems, container registries, and production cloud workloads. While this code-to-cloud model accelerates innovation, it also expands the potential attack surface. Traditional security tools often fall short in these dynamic environments, especially when development and runtime protections are siloed.

Uptycs addresses this challenge with an integrated approach to posture management, combining application security posture management (ASPM) and Cloud application detection and response (CADR). This code-to-cloud strategy ensures security teams gain visibility, control, and responsiveness across the full application lifecycle.

Understanding Code-to-Cloud Security Gaps

Security risks in the software supply chain can originate from development missteps, misconfigurations, or insecure infrastructure-as-code. Even with pre-deployment controls in place, not all threats can be prevented. Attackers increasingly exploit early-stage vulnerabilities or target production workloads directly, bypassing perimeter defenses.

Uptycs bridges this gap by connecting the "left side" of development-time security with the "right side" of runtime monitoring and response, creating a unified model for managing both security posture and active threats.

Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)

ASPM focuses on the pre-deployment stages of the application lifecycle. This "shift-left" strategy aims to identify and remediate issues before they reach production, reducing downstream risk and enabling security at scale.

Key Capabilities of ASPM

• Code Security: Automated scans of both proprietary and open-source code to detect vulnerabilities and insecure patterns.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Validation: Checks Terraform, CloudFormation, and Kubernetes YAML against best practices and compliance standards.
• Secrets Detection: Identifies hardcoded secrets, credentials, and API keys within 
  source code and configuration files.
• Container Image Security: Scans container images for known vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and excessive permissions before registry deployment.
• CI/CD Pipeline Security: Hardens CI/CD infrastructure by securing servers, credentials, build environments, and audit logs to detect unauthorized access or changes.
• Software Bill of Materials (SBOM): Generates a comprehensive inventory of software components to validate supply chain integrity.

These capabilities are embedded at various stages of the pipeline, including:

• Pre-commit hooks
• Build-time vulnerability scans
• Image scanning before registry pushes
• Compliance validation prior to deployment

By integrating directly with CI/CD platforms and development tools, Uptycs enforces application posture management consistently throughout the build and deploy cycle.

Cloud Application Detection and Response (CADR)

While ASPM focuses on prevention, CADR provides detection and remediation for threats that make it into production. Uptycs monitors runtime workloads in real time, providing actionable insights and automated response to reduce dwell time and contain active threats.

Core Components of CADR

• Runtime Visibility: Tracks application behavior, API calls, data flows, and user interactions in production environments.
• Cloud Workload Protection: Applies security controls across containers, VMs, and serverless functions.
• Behavioral Analytics: Establishes behavioral baselines to detect anomalies or signs of compromise.
• Threat Detection: Identifies known exploits, suspicious patterns, and zero-day activity targeting applications.
• Automated Response: Supports workflows such as blocking malicious traffic, isolating workloads, or reverting to secure states.
• Forensic Telemetry: Captures detailed logs and telemetry for investigation, threat hunting, and incident response.

Together, these capabilities form a comprehensive security detection layer that addresses runtime risks without sacrificing developer agility or system uptime.

Unifying Posture and Detection: The Uptycs Advantage

Uptycs uniquely integrates ASPM and CADR into a single platform—enabling organizations to maintain strong posture management while responding effectively to real-time threats. The platform connects development-time findings with runtime telemetry to deliver security context across the full application lifecycle.

Key Benefits of the Uptycs Code-to-Cloud Model

• Unified Security Context: Correlates code-level vulnerabilities with runtime telemetry for end-to-end visibility.
• Bidirectional Intelligence: Shares insights between development and production to improve detection rules and prioritization strategies.
• Risk-Based Prioritization: Scores vulnerabilities based on actual exploitation patterns observed in the wild, enabling teams to focus on what matters most.
• Automated Remediation: Generates detailed remediation guidance and pushes tickets to developer systems when runtime vulnerabilities are discovered.
• DevSecOps Enablement: Empowers development teams with context and accountability while integrating security seamlessly into existing workflows.
• Image Provenance Tracking: Maintains a lineage of container builds—tracking the origin of vulnerabilities back to the developer, commit, or pull request.

With centralized dashboards and integrated workflows, Uptycs simplifies security posture management without compromising on depth or accuracy.

Why Posture Management Needs to Be Continuous

Managing application security isn’t just about static analysis or perimeter controls. It’s about maintaining visibility and control throughout the software lifecycle—from the moment code is written to when it’s executed in production.

Uptycs delivers that continuous coverage through a unified platform that closes gaps between development and runtime. By doing so, organizations can:

• Reduce time to remediation by tying runtime findings back to code
• Prevent supply chain risks by validating every software component
• Eliminate visibility gaps in complex CI/CD environments
• Align development and security teams around shared metrics and goals

Get Started with Uptycs Posture Management

With threats emerging across every phase of the software lifecycle, posture management can no longer be an afterthought. Uptycs gives you the tools to manage application security from code to cloud—combining prevention, detection, and response in a single, integrated solution.

Ready to gain control over your application security posture?