Contrast Security Celebrates One Year of ADR Success, Expands Platform with New Integrations for Developers and SecOps Teams
One year after its debut at Black Hat, Contrast Security’s Application Detection and Response (ADR) platform has achieved remarkable adoption, with 40% of its customer base now leveraging the solution. This milestone underscores the growing demand for a runtime-native approach to securing applications and APIs in production—a critical need as organizations grapple with AI-accelerated development pipelines and increasingly complex cloud-native environments. To further enhance its capabilities, Contrast is introducing two new integrations: GitHub Copilot and Sumo Logic. These additions aim to broaden access to runtime security insights and accelerate remediation efforts, empowering both developers and security operations (SecOps) teams.
A Year of Innovation and Growth
Since its launch, Contrast ADR has redefined application security by addressing the limitations of legacy tools that struggle to keep pace with modern software ecosystems. Unlike traditional AppSec solutions, Contrast’s platform leverages runtime context, AI-driven remediation, and shared visibility across development, application security (AppSec), and SecOps teams. This innovative approach ensures that organizations can detect, block, and remediate real threats in production as they happen—providing actionable intelligence where it matters most.
The Northstar release, announced earlier this year, marked a significant evolution of the platform. It unified detection, remediation, and observability into a single experience powered by the Contrast Graph, a real-time behavioral model of the application layer. The Contrast Graph maps the attack surface, defenses, vulnerabilities, and more, delivering the rich context required for effective app and API security. Additionally, Northstar introduced SmartFix, an agentic AI feature that auto-generates validated code fixes, and Deployment Hub with Flex Agent, which simplifies scaling ADR across complex enterprise environments.
According to Contrast’s Software Under Siege 2025 report, application-layer attacks occur every three minutes. Despite this alarming frequency, most security teams lack the runtime context needed to respond effectively. Contrast ADR addresses this gap by providing real-time insights and actionable intelligence, enabling teams to act swiftly and decisively.
Expanding Reach with New Integrations
This week, Contrast announced two key ecosystem integrations designed to make runtime security even more accessible and impactful:
GitHub Copilot Integration
For developers, Contrast is bridging the gap between detection and remediation through its integration with GitHub Copilot. Developers can now apply AI-generated code fixes validated by live runtime evidence, ensuring that suggested changes are not only accurate but also safe for production. Unlike traditional AI suggestions that lack runtime context, SmartFix works seamlessly with GitHub Copilot to generate secure fixes based on detailed vulnerability information, exploitability data, attack specifics, available defenses, and insights from the Contrast Graph.
This integration streamlines remediation by delivering ready-to-review pull requests directly within the developer’s workflow. By providing context-aware and production-ready fixes, Contrast empowers developers to address real issues faster without disrupting their processes or compromising confidence in their code. This capability aligns perfectly with Contrast’s mission to secure software from the inside out while fostering collaboration between development and security teams.
Sumo Logic Integration
For SecOps teams, Contrast has integrated its attack telemetry with Sumo Logic, enhancing visibility and response capabilities within existing Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) workflows. Through this integration, security teams gain real-time access to exploit attempts, vulnerable code paths, and application behavior—all enriched with data from the Contrast Graph.
By incorporating runtime intelligence into their SIEM platforms, organizations can triage incidents more efficiently, reduce mean time to detect (MTTD), and cut down on investigation overhead. The Sumo Logic integration also helps teams understand the potential blast radius of an attack and close the loop between AppSec and incident response. This ensures that breaches are stopped faster and that security teams have the context they need to take decisive action.
Securing Software Across the Full Lifecycle
These updates to the Northstar release reflect Contrast’s vision of securing software throughout its entire lifecycle—from production back to code—using a unified platform. As the first runtime-native solution for defending applications in production, Contrast ADR is uniquely positioned to detect, block, and remediate real-world threats as they unfold. By uniting developers, AppSec professionals, and SecOps teams around shared runtime intelligence, Contrast eliminates noise and enables faster, smarter decision-making.
“Legacy tools show you possible issues. Contrast ADR shows you what’s actually happening, so teams can act fast and act right,” said Jeff Williams, CTO and Co-founder of Contrast. “From the inside out, Contrast is securing what matters most: the code that’s running right now.”
Industry Adoption and Impact
The adoption of Contrast ADR has been particularly strong in industries with stringent security and compliance requirements, such as financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology. Organizations in these sectors are replacing outdated scanners and fragmented workflows with Contrast’s unified runtime platform. The result? Reduced time-to-fix, elimination of false positives, and improved real-world outcomes.
“ADR has always been about helping teams focus on what matters most by seeing what’s actually happening within their apps,” said Faya Peng, Head of Product and General Manager of ADR at Contrast Security. “These new integrations with GitHub Copilot and Sumo Logic just make that easier. Developers and security teams can now work from the same real-time data and take action faster, all within the tools they’re already using.”
About Contrast Security
Contrast Security is the global leader in Application Detection and Response (ADR), empowering organizations to see and stop attacks on applications and APIs in real time. Contrast embeds patented threat sensors directly into the software, delivering unmatched visibility and protection. With continuous, real-time defense, Contrast uncovers hidden application-layer risks that traditional solutions miss. Contrast’s powerful Runtime Security technology equips developers, AppSec teams and SecOps with one platform that proactively protects and defends applications and APIs against evolving threats.
