Published by the leading IT consulting firm Gartner, Magic Quadrants are a series of market research reports that offer valuable insights into technology providers. Covering a wide variety of software and technology offerings, Gartner Magic Quadrants are a trusted source of information for enterprises and key decision makers to compare vendors as well as understand their own placing in the ranks.
Like previous years, the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing dives deep into the top vendors and companies providing transformational technologies that focus on the future needs of end users. This Magic Quadrant provides interesting changes in market leaders as well as new additions hoping to level the playing field.
What is Application Security Testing?
Gartner defines the application security testing (AST) market as “the buyers and sellers of products and services designed to analyze and test applications for security vulnerabilities.”
In order to be included in this Magic Quadrant, all vendors must offer at least one of four main AST technologies:
- Static AST (SAST). Technology that analyzes applications’ binary codes or sources for security vulnerabilities
- Dynamic AST (DAST). Technology that analyzes applications in their running states during either testing or operational phases
- Interactive AST (IAST). Technology that is combined with DAST within the test runtime environment
- Software composition analysis (SCA). Technology that is used to identify open-source components in an application along with their security vulnerabilities and any known license restrictions
Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing 2020
Here is this year’s Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing:
