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Contrast Security, the leader in Application Detection and Response (ADR), has been named a Runtime Innovator in the Latio 2026 Application Security Market Report. The designation highlights vendors advancing runtime protection to detect and respond to active threats in seconds, addressing the limitations of traditional shift-left strategies in modern, AI-accelerated environments.
The Latio report identifies a fundamental evolution in application security: as AI speeds development and amplifies complexity, vulnerability backlogs grow while active exploitation in production persists. Traditional pre-production scanning and shift-left methods alone cannot eliminate zero-day threats or provide sufficient runtime protection.
“Runtime has become the source of truth for exploitability and protection in modern application security,” said James Berthoty, Founder and Analyst at Latio. “Vendors recognized as Runtime Innovators demonstrate meaningful capabilities in real-time detection, reachability, and application-layer protection.”
Contrast’s platform stands out by embedding sensors directly into applications, delivering function-level visibility into what code executes at runtime. This enables precise confirmation of exploitability, real-time blocking of attacks, and reduced noise from irrelevant vulnerabilities.
“Application security teams are overwhelmed by scanner noise and growing attack surfaces,” said Jeff Williams, Founder of Contrast Security. “Runtime is where truth lives. Being named a Runtime Innovator validates our belief that security must not only detect risk but stop attacks inside the application, in production, where they actually occur.”
Contrast ADR empowers security and development teams with:
Unlike legacy WAF solutions reliant on rule updates and delayed patching, Contrast protects applications natively at runtime, providing continuous, adaptive defense against evolving threats.
About Contrast Security
Contrast Security is the global leader in Application Detection and Response (ADR), empowering organizations to see and stop attacks on applications and APIs in real time. Contrast embeds patented threat sensors directly into the software, delivering unmatched visibility and protection. With continuous defense, Contrast uncovers hidden application-layer risks that traditional solutions miss. Contrast’s powerful Runtime Security technology equips developers, AppSec teams and SecOps with one platform that proactively protects and defends applications and APIs against evolving threats.
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