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Citizen development and Generative AI makes it easier and faster than ever to create powerful business applications. Can your security team keep up?

Innovators and leaders trust Zenity

The Problem

Opportunities with citizen development also come with serious security and compliance risks

AI and low-code development make it easier and faster for users of all technical backgrounds to spur innovation, automate mundane processes, and craft efficient business processes.

It also creates new challenges for security

Security Gaps

Similar to the public cloud, AI and low-code platforms secure the underlying infrastructure, but not the resources or data built on top

Data Leakage

As thousands of apps, automations, and copilots are built, the risks of data being processed, accessed, or stored where it shouldn’t dramatically increases

No SDLC

Unlike traditional application development, does not incorporate dedicated times for testing, analyzing, and measuring the security of apps

Introducing

The Zenity Citizen Development
Security Platform

The solution

Security and governance for all AI, low-code, and no-code development

Unleash professional and citizen developers to safely create the things they need while meeting security and compliance standards

Maintain real-time, cross-platform inventory of all apps, automations, copilots, dataflows, and bots

70%

LCNC platforms will power more than 70% of new apps by 2025 (Gartner)

Continuously analyze each individual artifact to identify security violations and risks

90%

No-code and low-code platforms help reduce app development time by 90% (451 Research)

Configure guardrails to ensure that as apps, automations, and copilots are built, that they are secured without disrupting business operations

72%

IT leaders now say project backlogs prevent them from working on strategic projects (Telarus)

How Zenity makes a difference

“Non-technical low-code/no-code users don’t follow app development security best practices, We had no visibility or control over the lowcode/no-code tools.”

Itzik Menashe VP of Global IT and Information Security

“Varonis appreciates and prioritizes security measures at all times, in every aspect of our work.”
“….Securing the integrations and automations that people are building is a top priority for the company.”

Omer Mar-Chaim Director of IT technology Architect
USE CASES

Use cases to unleash citizen development


Citizen development is a powerful business driver, but security and governance is needed to fully capture the value.

  • Without strong security, citizen development can lead to:

    • Hard-coded secrets embedded into applications
    • Exposed and leaked sensitive data in plaintext
    • Over-shared apps and automations that are accessible to the public
  • Without ongoing hygiene and governance, businesses operations can come under stress via:

    • Unowned or unmonitored resources
    • Denials of service via misconfigured resources
    • Lack of SLA for business critical applications
  • Citizen development can make it much harder for organizations to maintain compliance by:

    • Exposing sensitive data to unauthorized users
    • Excessive and implicit sharing of confidential data
    • Lack of visibility for which resources have access to sensitive data

Without strong security, citizen development can lead to:

  • Hard-coded secrets embedded into applications
  • Exposed and leaked sensitive data in plaintext
  • Over-shared apps and automations that are accessible to the public

Without ongoing hygiene and governance, businesses operations can come under stress via:

  • Unowned or unmonitored resources
  • Denials of service via misconfigured resources
  • Lack of SLA for business critical applications

Citizen development can make it much harder for organizations to maintain compliance by:

  • Exposing sensitive data to unauthorized users
  • Excessive and implicit sharing of confidential data
  • Lack of visibility for which resources have access to sensitive data
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“Low-code/no-code represents the democratization of applications software empowering traditional business and systems analysts to “roll their own” software. The challenge to the business is how to ensure that the risks and security challenges associated with adopting low-code/no code solutions are mitigated. Zenity enables governance and risk mitigation while supporting the empowerment of citizen developers. As a former CIO, for a variety of businesses in size and scope, I know how important it is for CIOs to stay in front of these shifts – Zenity provides the perfect combination of ease of integration with the tools that users will adopt, monitoring to insure internal and external governance rules are applied.”

Tom Fisher

“Governance and security in low-code/no-code environments is a shared responsibility between the platform providers, users, administrators and information security professionals. Zenity identified this unique problem space and their innovative platform helps to safely promote citizen and business application development.”

Omer Mar-Chaim

“Today’s InfoSec and AppleSec solutions don’t translate to low-code/no-code applications. The door is wide open for data leaks and breaches. Zenity has stepped up to give those responsible for low-code/no-code platform security a way to close, lock and monitor that door. Zenity’s governance solution brings clarity and familiar governance and security principles to the rapidly expanding low-code/no-code development pipeline that is quickly becoming a given in enterprises.”

Gerhard Eschelbeck
News

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