Transforming AppSec for Modern Software Development
Modern application development moves fast—and so do attackers. As organizations accelerate cloud-native development, the software supply chain has become one of the largest and most complex sources of enterprise risk. Vulnerabilities can originate anywhere, from custom code and open-source dependencies to misconfigurations in cloud infrastructure. Yet most AppSec programs remain fragmented, relying on siloed tools and disconnected teams that struggle to see how risk accumulates and where it urgently matters.
The result is all too familiar: noisy findings, slow remediation and security controls that arrive too late in the development lifecycle to prevent real exposure. To change the dynamic, organizations need a unified approach that embeds security throughout the development lifecycle and correlates application risks with cloud and runtime context.
A Unified AppSec Solution from Cortex Cloud and Veracode
Together, Palo Alto Networks and Veracode provide an integrated, code-to-cloud solution that helps organizations secure applications across the entire software development ecosystem. By integrating Veracode’s Code Scanning with Cortex Cloud Application Security Posture Management, security teams gain a single, authoritative view of application risk from the first commit through production.
Veracode delivers deep application security across proprietary code, open-source dependencies and running applications to identify vulnerabilities early in the pipeline and before deployment. Cortex Cloud ingests these findings and correlates them with cloud security posture, infrastructure context and runtime telemetry to provide actionable insight into what actually poses risk.
The integration increases visibility and streamlines workflows across development and security teams. Developers receive fast, actionable feedback in their existing tools, enabling them to fix issues early. Security teams enforce consistent policies across CI/CD pipelines from a unified console that connects application risk to cloud exposure and business impact.
Key Use Cases
Secure the Development Pipeline
By embedding Veracode SAST and SCA directly into CI/CD workflows, organizations can automatically identify and prevent vulnerable code and dependencies from moving forward. Findings flow into Cortex Cloud, where policies can be enforced consistently, including blocking high-risk builds before they reach production.
Unified Application and Cloud Risk Visibility
Application vulnerabilities rarely exist in isolation. Cortex Cloud correlates Veracode findings with cloud security data to show how code-level issues intersect with infrastructure misconfigurations, exposed services and runtime behavior. The unified view helps teams focus on exploitable risk rather than isolated alerts.
Automated Governance and Response
With all application and cloud risk data centralized, Cortex Cloud enables automated workflows that reduce manual effort. Teams can automatically create prioritized remediation tickets, trigger alerts or enforce policy actions based on correlated risk signals—accelerating response while maintaining developer velocity.
Shift Left Without Slowing Developers
Developers receive context-rich feedback directly in their IDEs, CI tools or ticketing systems, enabling faster fixes and reinforcing secure coding practices. Security becomes part of the development process rather than a late-stage gate.
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The integration between Cortex Cloud and Veracode helps organizations move beyond fragmented AppSec and reactive remediation. By unifying Veracode’s application security insights with cloud and runtime context in Cortex Cloud, teams can prevent more issues earlier, standardize governance and reduce risk across the entire software supply chain.
To learn more about how Cortex Cloud and Veracode work together to deliver application security from code to cloud, explore the joint solution brief or request a demo of Cortex Cloud.