With ADR now adopted by 40% of its customers, Contrast introduces GitHub Copilot and Sumo Logic integrations to broaden access to runtime security and faster remediation

One year after launching Application Detection and Response (ADR) at Black Hat, Contrast Security is accelerating its mission to secure modern software from the inside out. While legacy AppSec tools struggle to keep pace with AI-accelerated pipelines and cloud-native environments, Contrast has delivered a new approach built on runtime context, AI-driven remediation, and shared visibility across Dev, AppSec, and SecOps.

Contrast Security’s ADR adoption reached 40% of its customer base, reflecting rapid market validation and strong demand for a runtime-native approach to securing applications and APIs in production.

The Northstar release, announced earlier this year, marked a major 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 that maps attack surface, defenses, vulnerabilities and more, providing the rich context app/API security demands. Northstar also introduced SmartFix, Contrast’s agentic AI for auto-generating validated code fixes, and Deployment Hub with Flex Agent, which makes it easy to scale ADR across complex enterprise environments.

According to Contrast’s Software Under Siege 2025 report, application-layer attacks now occur every 3 minutes, yet most security teams lack the runtime context to detect or respond in time.

This week, Contrast is expanding the reach of Northstar with two new ecosystem integrations that make runtime security even more accessible and effective:

• GitHub Copilot Integration – Developers can now apply AI-generated fixes that are validated by live runtime evidence, bridging the gap between detection and developer action. Unlike traditional AI suggestions that lack runtime context, Contrast SmartFix works with GitHub Copilot to generate secure code fixes based on runtime vulnerability details, proven exploitability, attack details, defenses available, and context from the Context Graph. This streamlines remediation by delivering ready-to-review pull requests that are both context-aware and safe for production, helping developers fix real issues faster without disrupting their workflow and ship with confidence.
• Sumo Logic Integration – Contrast attack telemetry now flows directly into Sumo Logic, enabling SOC teams to triage, investigate, and respond with full application-layer context. Security teams gain real-time visibility into exploit attempts, vulnerable code paths, and application behavior, all enriched through the Contrast Graph. By integrating runtime intelligence into existing SIEM workflows, organizations can stop breaches faster, reduce mean time to detect (MTTD), cut investigation overhead, understand the blast radius and close the loop between AppSec and incident response.

The updates to the Northstar release align with Contrast’s vision of securing software across the full lifecycle, from production back to code, with a single, unified platform.

Contrast ADR is the first runtime-native platform for defending applications in production, built to detect, block, and remediate real threats as they happen. By uniting developers, AppSec, and SecOps around the same runtime intelligence, Contrast ADR delivers the shared context teams need to act faster, fix smarter, and stop chasing noise.

“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.”

The adoption of ADR has been especially strong in industries with the highest security and compliance demands, including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology. Organizations in these sectors are replacing legacy scanners and fragmented workflows with Contrast’s unified runtime platform to reduce time-to-fix, eliminate false positives, and improve 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.”

To see Contrast ADR in action, visit Booth #1861 at Black Hat USA 2025, or learn more at contrastsecurity.com.

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.

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