Spectra Assure® for Enterprise Software Consumers
Secure Software Onboarding
Automatically evaluate third-party software before deployment, accelerating approvals while enforcing internal policies.
The Problem: Software Onboarding Processes Are Slow and Outdated
Organizations today face significant friction in the process of approving and onboarding third-party software. Traditional assessment methods are manual, siloed, and often highly reliant on third-party attestation. This fragmented approach leads to long review cycles which slow vendor onboarding and delay the deployment of critical business applications.
Organizations that block unwanted (malicious, tampered, or excessively risky) software from ever being deployed, effectively reduce downstream operational impact and establish auditable controls that support regulatory compliance. By overcoming these obstacles, security can shift from a bottleneck to a catalyst, accelerating onboarding, enabling business agility, and supporting growth rather than restricting it.
The Solution: Secure Software Onboarding with Spectra Assure®
ReversingLabs enforces a preventative, just-in-time security control during software onboarding before operational dependencies form and while contractual leverage is still intact. This enables enterprises to get to “yes” faster without exceeding defined risk tolerance. By incorporating Spectra Assure® into software request workflows, customers can effectively replace manual, siloed reviews with automated, policy-driven assessments, evaluating third-party software for hidden threats in minutes. The result: faster, evidence-backed onboarding decisions, and quicker time-to-value for newly requested software.
If third-party software fails to meet defined security policies, enterprises must work collaboratively with the vendor to mitigate known risks. As new software updates are released, Spectra Assure® performs version-to-version differential analysis to assist in the independent validation of issue closure, rather than relying on a vendor's written attestation. This continuous monitoring capability ensures that enterprises can hold their software vendors accountable for delivering critical remediation actions in alignment with their contractual obligations.
The ideal case is that you're running ReversingLabs on everything prior to purchase. I not only get the SBOM, I also get insights into malicious code or tampering.
Tim Brown | CISO
Our biggest challenge was identifying the software risk we bring into our organization. Spectra Assure brought the visibility we needed.
Head of Supply Chain Security Global Bank
We get a lot of requests to install different applications. Spectra Assure lets us know if the software is safe or not and simplifies that yes or no discussion with employees.
Security Operations Manager Local Municipality
Business Outcomes Achieved
Onboarding Governance
Automatically scan and approve vendor or open-source software in minutes, eliminating manual review, and shrinking onboarding from weeks to hours.
Security Risk Management
Analyze software directly from a download URL before it enters the corporate network, enforcing just-in-time protection.
Operational Excellence
Enable self-service software requests for end users and product owners, reserving scarce security expertise for the highest-risk cases.
The RL Difference
Coverage
Spectra Assure analyzes third-party software using the final binary in the form it is published, without requiring access to source code. This provides independent security assurance on the actual software an enterprise will install into production. By evaluating the deployed package, Spectra Assure offers more complete visibility into third party software than source-dependent application security tools, which often miss malicious or tampered build artifacts introduced during compilation or packaging processes.
Continuous Monitoring
Traditional application security tools provide point-in-time scans of a single release. Spectra Assure goes further, continuously validating security changes from version to version to ensure software is safe to deploy. Using differential binary analysis, ReversingLabs independently verifies that vendors have truly remediated critical risk, creating a portable audit trail that enforces accountability across the entire vendor lifecycle.
Speed
Spectra Assure relies on static binary analysis rather than runtime execution, enabling software to be evaluated without the delays and limitations associated with dynamic or sandbox-based techniques. By eliminating extended observation windows, assessments are performed in minutes, not hours or days. This speed enables enterprises to get to “yes” faster, reducing analysis bottlenecks and delivering approved software sooner.
Size
Spectra Assure is built to analyze large, complex software artifacts that reach multiple gigabytes in sizes. Unlike traditional endpoint security tools, which impose file size limits measured in hundreds of megabytes, Spectra Assure supports artifacts orders of magnitude larger. Third-party packages can be analyzed directly in their distributed form, streamlining the onboarding workflow by eliminating manual repackaging or workaround steps required to accommodate file size limitations.
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