Use Case · ASPM

Application security posture, in one place

If you've got more than a handful of repositories, you've probably hit the moment where “what's our security posture” stops being answerable. The Snyk dashboard says one thing. The GitHub Code Scanning tab says another. The findings from your pen test are in a PDF somewhere. The compliance team needs a unified view, and you don't have one.

ASPM (Application Security Posture Management) is the category name for the tool that fixes this. Kolega is built to be the ASPM source of truth for your application code — every repo, every finding, every resolution, in one place.

The Category

What ASPM actually means

ASPM tools share four core capabilities.

01

Coverage visibility

Which repos are being scanned, which aren't, and where the gaps are. Most teams discover during an audit that 30% of their repos weren't being scanned by anyone.

02

Unified findings view

Vulnerabilities across the entire codebase in one dashboard, not split across five tools. Filterable, sortable, prioritisable.

03

Risk-based prioritisation

Not just CVSS scores. Real exploitability based on whether the vulnerable code is reachable, whether the data is exposed, whether the fix exists.

04

Lifecycle tracking

Every finding has a state, an owner, and a timeline from detection to resolution. The evidence stack that auditors and security leads need.

Kolega provides all four for application code specifically. The findings come from our own engine (no tool aggregation needed), the prioritisation is built around real data flow, and the lifecycle tracking is native to the platform.

Scope

Where Kolega fits in the ASPM category

ASPM is a broad category that includes tools doing very different things. Some aggregate findings from other scanners (like Aikido). Some focus on cloud posture (CSPM, separate category). Some focus on application code (where we sit).

Kolega is ASPM for application code

  • All your repos scanned by one engine
  • All findings in one dashboard
  • Coverage gaps visible at a glance
  • Lifecycle tracking from detection to resolution
  • Compliance-ready evidence exports

Kolega is not ASPM for

  • Cloud posture (CSPM)Pair with Wiz or Orca
  • Container securityPair with Sysdig or Aqua
  • Runtime application protection (RASP)Pair with a runtime tool
  • API security at the network layerPair with an API gateway / WAF

If you need cross-domain ASPM (code + cloud + containers + runtime), Kolega covers the code layer. You'd pair us with a CSPM tool (Wiz, Orca) and a container security tool (Sysdig, Aqua) for full coverage.

The Dashboard

What the unified view looks like

Security posture

kolega-ai5 repos · 4 scanned

Open critical

3

Open high

9

Coverage

80%

Trend (7d)

−12

kolega-api
Scanned
0
1
4
7
2h ago
kolega-frontend
Scanned
1
3
6
12
5h ago
kolega-billing
Scanned
0
0
2
5
1d ago
hackweek-ai-demo
No recent scan
2
5
8
11
9d ago
legacy-admin
Never scanned
0
0
0
0
Never

Example posture view · every repo, coverage status, severity counts, and last-scan timestamp in one place.

The repo-level view shows:

  • Every connected repo — sortable by finding count, last scan date, or severity
  • Coverage status — green for “scanned in the last 24h,” amber for “no recent scan,” red for “never scanned”
  • Severity breakdown — criticals, highs, mediums, lows per repo
  • Trends — finding counts over time, are you closing more than you find

Drill into any repo and you get the per-finding view with the data flow, fix suggestions, and autofix options.

Day One

Coverage gaps you'll find on day one

When teams first connect Kolega to their full Git org, they usually discover three things.

Repos that were never scanned by anyone

New repos, hackathon projects, archived projects that aren't really archived. ASPM means knowing about all of them, not just the ones someone remembered to add to the existing scanner.

Forks and copies with their own findings

A repo gets forked for an experiment, the experiment ships to production, the original scanner never picked it up. Multiplied across your org, this is where breaches come from.

Drift between repos

Two services that share auth logic — one's been patched, the other hasn't. A unified view shows the gap immediately.

The point isn't that Kolega magically fixes these. The point is you can't fix what you can't see, and most teams genuinely can't see their full application security posture until they have a single tool that scans everything.

See your posture

The fastest way to understand your application security posture is to connect your Git org and look. Kolega's free tier lets you see findings across one repo. Pro tier covers your full org.

No credit card required. 7-day Pro trial. Drops to a free tier afterwards.

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