Announcing JFrog AppTrust: Building Unshakeable Trust in Every Application You Deliver

The pressure to deliver applications quickly has created a complex software supply chain that is vulnerable to more  threats than ever before. New regulations are shifting the liability to software developers, demanding auditable proof of security across the entire product lifecycle. Caught between velocity and complexity, the critical question is this: Can you truly vouch for the integrity, security, and compliance of every application that leaves your pipeline? What about after it’s deployed? Do you still trust it?

Many organizations are grappling with a fragmented approach, relying on individual AppSec scanners, and external Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) tools which merely centralize noise but lack crucial application context, like ownership or stage of the SDLC. This leads to weak prioritization and a dependence on manual, homegrown governance that struggles to keep pace with the demand for continuous verifiable compliance.

JFrog AppTrust – Application Risk Governance: The industry’s first comprehensive solution that consolidates security, governance and compliance for exceptional reliability, trust and operational efficiency.

AppTrust allows you to set and enforce evidence-based policies, acting as control gates, at every stage of the software development lifecycle. These gates represent your organization’s security, compliance, quality, and performance requirements, ensuring the integrity of your applications, by meeting all relevant policies and then clearly marking them with a  “Trusted Release’ badge.

The Challenge: A Fragmented View Across Teams

For many organizations, the journey from code to production is fraught with complexities. Security, DevOps and GRC teams all interact on the same applications but with different tools and competing priorities. This results in friction and a lack of clear accountability for prioritizing fixes and understanding application context.

Security Teams
Today’s  tool sprawl has led to a fragmented view of risk, constant alert fatigue, and friction with developers. Security is often perceived as a bottleneck, making it difficult to prove the value of their initiatives and policy enforcement.

DevOps and Engineering Teams
The fragmentation described above, results in a lack of application context and unclear ownership. Teams are slowed down by having to manage multiple systems, spending valuable time tracing the source of risks and the responsible entity for the fix, rather than building and delivering software.

GRC Teams
Compliance has traditionally been  a post release fact-finding exercise relying on manual audits to validate activities that have already occurred. This process is time-consuming, depending on spreadsheets, screenshots and custom scripts created by multiple teams. The result is a continuous struggle to meet regulatory demands without the ability to quickly identify and change processes that affect proper compliance.

Ultimately, this siloed approach creates a cycle of friction where security struggles to get a clear picture of risk, GRC cannot achieve verifiable compliance and DevOps is slowed down by lack of context and definitive ownership. This continuous struggle demonstrates the need for a new approach that breaks down these barriers and helps teams work together more effectively and efficiently.

Introducing JFrog AppTrust: Comprehensive Application Risk Governance with the JFrog Platform

AppTrust empowers CISOs, DevOps and GRC teams with next-level control over application security and software compliance, without compromising on development speed and efficiency.

How AppTrust Delivers Unwavering Trust

1. Bringing context into your single source of truth: AppTrust brings essential application context into your single source of truth. By leveraging JFrog Artifactory, it maps all software assets and resources to a specific application, defining clear ownership and business context. This unified view includes a complete Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), a timeline of all versions, and a record of important actions, providing comprehensive visibility.

Holistic view of the entire application entity

 

2. Evidence-Based Control Points Throughout the SDLC: Evidence can be collected from multiple sources including:

• • JFrog generated evidence
  • Evidence via JFrog partners
  • Evidence via JFrog-developed reference designs
  • Custom evidence

These act to define policies that act as strategic gates. JFrog AppTrust’s growing ecosystem of evidence partners currently includes leading industry tools such as: GitHub, ServiceNow, Sonar and more. If a specific  application version does not present the necessary evidence, an alert is triggered.

Alerts can be triggered as early as possible in the development lifecycle or can be deferred to a later stage of development. This ensures security and compliance requirements are met without slowing down the release cadence, giving you the flexibility to be as restrictive or permissive as required.

Evidence-based policies acting as strategic gates across the SDLC

3. Certify Releases with a Trusted Release Badge: Once an application successfully passes all the necessary policy gates, it receives a “Trusted Release” badge. This badge indicates that all your policies were met, giving  you the confidence to trust the integrity of the applications you deliver and provide attestation  that they are policy-approved.

4. Maintain Trust with Continuous Post-Deployment Monitoring: With a trusted release in production, you can monitor for new vulnerabilities that emerge post-deployment. By consolidating JFrog’s security scanners into an application-centric lens, AppTrust eliminates fragmented results and provides clear contextual remediation paths to maintain the application’s security over its entire lifecycle.

Monitoring for new CVEs to ensure continued trust even post-release

5. DevOps and Governance Combined: As an integral part of the JFrog Platform, AppTrust embodies the principles of supply chain security and governance. It helps bridge the gaps between development, performance, and security teams by providing a single, transparent record of all application activity, from code deployment and user interactions to system events and security alerts.

Every event, from creating new versions to promoting them, is recorded with important information like timestamp, action and user who initiated the action. This creates a clear audit trail and ensures accountability. This detailed application overview enables effective collaboration while balancing speed with safety to achieve application security, governance and compliance in one unified product.

Providing a single, transparent record of all application actions to ensure compliance

Designed for the AI-Era, Adopted at Your Pace

AI is having a major impact on software development. AppTrust, together with the power of the JFrog Platform, is ready to support your adoption of cutting-edge technologies based on ML Models and Agentic AI, by giving you the power to build, secure and distribute your applications with speed and reliability as you innovate.

Key Benefits You’ll Experience with AppTrust

Here are some of the key advantages you gain from using AppTrust:

• Proven Value: Easily show progress in efficiency and security coverage over time with demonstrable success for all relevant stakeholders.

• Focus on Critical Data: Consolidate critical evidence from your tool stack creating a centralized app-based view that bridges gaps between DevOps, security and GRC teams.

• Balancing Security with Agility: Eliminate friction and maintain velocity by leveraging a unified platform that your operations  and development teams already know and trust.

• Proactive Risk Mitigation with Context: Prevent, measure, and respond to risks with contextualized security, ensuring SLA, compliance and smart remediation.

• Insights that Drive Performance: Track DORA metrics to identify bottlenecks and filter insights to improve SDLC velocity and risk management.

• Achieving Compliance: Help achieve compliance and meet industry specific regulations by leveraging JFrog Artifactory as a single source of truth using verified evidence and automated policy enforcement.

Ready to Trust Every Application?

JFrog AppTrust provides the ultimate consolidation, helping you achieve comprehensive application governance and trust in your applications.

Check out the product page and register for our webinar for more information.