Application security testing tools are designed to ensure that applications are put through rigorous security assessments to identify security flaws within the application and its code. Even though applications are tested thoroughly (in static and dynamic ways), attackers always seem to find new ways of compromising them.

Collecting data in real-time plays a crucial role in securing, monitoring, and troubleshooting applications. This real-time data, often referred to as ‘runtime data,’ provides unique insights into the application’s behavior, which aren’t available through other collection techniques. But the tricky part is that collecting runtime data comes with challenges.

Modern development teams increasingly rely on open-source packages to rapidly build and deploy applications. In fact, most, if not all applications consist of far more open-source and 3rd-party code than the code that’s‌ written by their dev teams.