Integrating Application Vulnerability Response with other applications

Vulnerability Response includes support for third-party integrations.

Third-party integrations

Application vulnerability integrations help enrich the application vulnerability data on your instance by retrieving data from external systems and vendors. See the following overview topics for more information about supported integrations:

• Fortify on Demand Vulnerability Integration
• GitHub Application Vulnerability Integration
• Invicti Vulnerability Integration
• Veracode Vulnerability Integration
• Vulnerability Response Integration with Black Duck
• Manual ingestion of vulnerabilities for Application Vulnerability Response
• Atlassian Jira Integration
  Important:

  In the Vulnerability Manager Workspace, you can create an agile issue manually using the list action and form action to track the remediation of AVITs and RTs.

Note:

Multi-source integrations are not supported in Application Vulnerability Response. Third-party integrations are treated separately. If more than one third-party integration application is in use in your environment, there is no application vulnerable item (AVI) deduplication across integrations.

Additional notes for integrations

During integration execution, multiple processes are generated, and data is received in the form of pages. Each process can contain one or more import queue entries with attached data in pages. These entries must process the data within the one-hour time limit. However, if the payload size is large, the processing time may exceed one hour or get stuck, resulting in an integration timeout error. The integration continues to process the data despite the timeout error. To avoid this miscommunication, starting from version 18.2.4 of Application Vulnerability Response, timestamps (heartbeats) are sent periodically to indicate if the queue is active and processing data. The Last Record Processed field in the Import Queue Entry page is updated based on the count of records the import queue creates or updates. In case an import queue entry exceeds the one-hour time limit, the system checks the Last Record Processed field to see if it is also older than one hour. If it is, this indicates that the import queue entry is stuck, and it is timed out to prevent any further delays in processing.

Note:

The Last Record Processed field is updated based on what is defined in the following system properties:

• sn_sec_cmn.record_threshold_heartbeat: Defines the number of processed records, after which the heartbeat (timestamp) is sent to the import queue entry.
• sn_sec_cmn.maximum_heartbeat_delay: Defines the time after which the import queue entry must be timed out.

Vulnerability integrations for Application Vulnerability Response are configured to run on a scheduled basis. However, you can run them manually when needed.

Role required: sn_vul.app_read_integrations

1. Navigate to All > Application Vulnerability Response > Administration > Integrations.
2. Open the record for the integration that you want to run.
3. Click Execute Now.