AppSec Platform
Mend.io
Mend.io is a mature application security platform created in 2011. It has received awards from G2, Cyber Security Excellence Awards, and others.
The platform provides such tools:
- Finding vulnerabilities in source code (SAST)
- Library risk detection (SCA)
- Container image scanning
- Dependency update
- Security of AI components in applications
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Mend.io Platform
Mend SAST
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) is a tool for finding vulnerabilities in application source code. Key capabilities:
- Fast full scans compared with traditional scanners
- Concurrent scans for better scalability
- Incremental scans that analyze only new or changed code
- Taint analysis to determine whether untrusted data can reach a dangerous sink without proper sanitization
- Secrets detection
- Scan depth configuration
- Ability to exclude low-probability findings for some programming languages
- Fix suggestions for some vulnerabilities (can be disabled)
Mend SAST is designed for organizations that need accurate code-level findings, better prioritization, and the ability to scale with development.
Mend SCA
Software Composition Analysis (SCA) provides visibility into the libraries used in applications and helps identify security risks in them.
Key capabilities:
- Inventory of libraries and their versions, including transitive dependencies (Software Bill of Materials, SBOM)
- SBOM coverage for open-source, commercial, and custom libraries
- Export in standard formats such as SPDX and CycloneDX
- Reachability analysis to understand whether a vulnerable library can actually be reached by attackers
- Exploitability data, including exploit availability, maturity, and EPSS risk
- Malicious package detection
- License risk analysis
Mend SCA helps teams focus on the libraries that represent real risk instead of treating every dependency issue equally.
Mend Container
Mend Container checks the security of container images.
Key capabilities:
- SBOM and security risks of libraries in container images
- Reachability analysis
- Exploitability data
- License risk analysis
- Secrets detection in image layers
- Docker Hardened Images (DHI) integration
- Kubernetes integration (Native Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Microsoft AKS, Google GKE) to show which container images are running and where
Local scanning and integration with registries (such as Docker Hub, Amazon ECR, Microsoft Azure ACR, Google Artifact Registry, and JFrog Artifactory) are available.
Mend Renovate
Mend Renovate automatically identifies outdated dependencies and creates pull requests to update them. It includes merge confidence ratings that estimate the likelihood an update will pass without breaking the application. The rating is based on:
- Age of the release
- Adoption by Renovate users
- Passing rate of automated unit tests for that package update
This decreases technical debt and helps teams make update decisions with more confidence and lower disruption risk.
Mend AI
Mend AI provides visibility into the AI component risks in applications:
- List of AI components used in the application (AI-BOM)
- Known vulnerabilities
- Malicious packages
- License risks
- AI agent configuration security
Mend AI Premium is an add-on that is purchased separately and expands AI security, providing the following:
- AI model security findings report
- System prompt security enhancement
- AI Red Teaming – sends malicious prompts to test the model for weaknesses
Clients
Additional platform capabilities
- Invicti (DAST + IAST) integration for centralized vulnerability management
- View scanning results directly in your repository
- Automated policies (fail pipeline, send tickets and emails, set SLA)
- Advanced reporting (compliance, findings, SBOM)
- Check the security of the AI assistant’s suggestions within your IDE (SAST + SCA)
FAQ
What is the difference between Mend SAST, Mend SCA, and Mend Container?
Mend SAST analyzes application source code to identify vulnerabilities.
Mend SCA focuses on third-party libraries, including transitive dependencies (libraries used by other libraries), to identify security and license risks.
Mend Container analyzes container images to detect vulnerable libraries and secrets (credentials, keys, and so on).
Can Mend.io be integrated into CI/CD and development workflows?
Yes. For example, you can fail a pipeline, send tickets, and integrate with AI assistants within IDEs to check security of their code and library suggestions.
How Mend.io’s approach is different from similar solutions?
Mend.io has an advanced priority-based approach so teams can focus on the findings that matter most thanks to:
• Reachability and exploitability data
• Advanced taint analysis and depth settings
• Broadened context for container image security
• Merge confidence in dependency update
• In-depth context for AI component security
What are the deployment options?
Mend.io provides cloud and hybrid deployment options.
In hybrid one, an agent is installed on a machine (any OS). It performs scans fully locally, not in the cloud.
After the scan is finished, only results are sent to the cloud, which is compliant with GDPR and other regulatory standards.
Mend SCA results can be processed fully locally in CLI.
Can I receive a custom quote for specific modules?
Yes. To do this, please contact us in a way convenient for you: your@corewin.ua
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