Boston, November 10, 2020 –– ZeroNorth, the only company to unite security, DevOps and the business for the good of software, today announced the availability of its Defect Density Dashboard, a new capability within its SaaS-based application security automation and orchestration platform. The new dashboard normalizes scan data from disparate security scan tools to identify the rate of code defects. This insight offers security and engineering leaders a common framework for collaborating to improve application security and software quality within existing DevOps workflows.

A new variant of the widely used metric for measuring software quality, the ZeroNorth Defect Density Dashboard highlights the number of application security defects per thousand lines of code. ZeroNorth’s defect density metrics are uniquely normalized across all Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and Static Application Security Testing (SAST) scans to provide a leading indicator of code quality throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

For DevOps leaders, defect density provides critical insights that enable them to take pre-emptive actions to improve software quality and avoid costly late-stage vulnerability remediation. The dashboard is highly customizable and enables users to filter data based on specific code repositories and timeframes.

“The use of defect density as a key performance indicator for software resiliency is essential to supporting the instrumentation of the development pipeline for DevSecOps professionals,” commented Jim Routh, Head of Enterprise Cyber Security at MassMutual.

An integral capability of the ZeroNorth platform, the Defect Density Dashboard provides a framework that creates a common language for security and development teams. These capabilities help to improve security and deliver business and economic value, such as:

CISOs and product security leaders can effectively engage with the development teams by framing application security defects within the context of code quality – a framework that aligns with development’s drivers for quality and productivity.
Engineering leaders can begin to understand the implications of defects within the code base they are developing. With this insight, they can drive quick and efficient remediation within existing DevOps processes.
Business leaders gain visibility and clarity into the state of both application security and quality early in the SDLC. With this insight, they can make the right strategic and operational decisions to ensure that defects are fixed early and thus optimize application security, quality, and development velocity, while reducing software development costs.
“Fixing security vulnerabilities after a product hits production can be 100 times more expensive and damaging than fixing a defect when the developer still has their hands on the code,” commented John Worrall, CEO of ZeroNorth. “So, the business case for the ZeroNorth platform is very clear. Application security automation and orchestration, coupled with visibility and analytics enables organizations to address security-related defects in software code early, thereby significantly increasing developers’ productivity and saving money while delivering more secure products out the door faster.”

The Defect Density Dashboard is generally available within the ZeroNorth platform.

About ZeroNorth
ZeroNorth brings security, DevOps and the business together to improve application security performance and reduce organizational risk. The company’s application security automation and orchestration platform unites enterprises to rapidly identify, prioritize and remove the vulnerabilities standing in the way of software excellence. In an age where the security of applications needs to be everyone’s responsibility, ZeroNorth is where organizations come together for the good of software.

New Relic and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have formed a five-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA), committing to increased product integrations and development, and joint go-to-market activities designed to help customers accelerate and de-risk their cloud adoption journey.

“AWS is delighted to establish a strategic collaboration with New Relic as we share a common commitment — helping customers innovate and migrate faster to the cloud,” says Amazon Web Services AWS sales and marketing vice president Matt Garman.

“This collaboration integrates New Relic’s comprehensive observability capabilities with industry-leading cloud services from AWS to accelerate the value New Relic can offer to clients.”

Joint customer benefits of the SCA include:

Collaboration to simplify the discovery and adoption of New Relic One by AWS customers.
New Relic and AWS will collaborate on making it easy for developers to send telemetry data from AWS services into New Relic One, improving observability and accelerating their cloud adoption.

Consolidated purchasing and billing through AWS Marketplace.
New Relic One is now available in AWS Marketplace, allowing customers to consolidate their billing by purchasing New Relic One directly through AWS. New Relic One is also available through both the AWS Marketplace Seller Private Offers and AWS Marketplace Consulting Partner Private Offers (CPPO) programs.

Joint go-to-market activities.
The companies will engage in co-marketing and co-selling programs built around incentives and accelerators that create more value for customers.
“New Relic and AWS are coming together to create an incredibly compelling go-to-market and technology alliance designed to help the world’s developers build more perfect software in the cloud,” says New Relic CEO and founder Lew Cirne.

“Our vision for this strategic collaboration is to expand New Relic’s reach, making it just as easy and seamless for developers to purchase New Relic through AWS, as it is for consumers to buy goods from third-party sellers on Amazon.com.”

New Relic One is a cloud-based observability platform built to help customers create software.

It includes:

Telemetry Data Platform to collect, visualise, and alert on all types of application and infrastructure data at petabyte scale. It is designed to be a single source of truth for all operational data.
Full-Stack Observability to easily analyse and troubleshoot the entire software stack across APM, infrastructure, logs, and the digital customer experience in one connected experience.
Applied Intelligence to detect, understand, and resolve incidents faster.
“AWS and New Relic have successfully worked in lockstep over the years to address some of the biggest cloud challenges facing customers across the region. Many are facing increasingly complex IT and business environments comprising multiple cloud architectures across different locations. In partnership with AWS, New Relic has successfully helped customers accelerate their cloud migration journey, optimise their cloud resource consumption and costs, and scale for their biggest days,” says New Relic Asia-Pacific and Japan executive vice-president and general manager Dmitri Chen.