Enso Security was a startup that pioneered Application Security Posture Management (ASPM), a category focused on discovering, tracking, and prioritizing application security risk across an entire organization, and it was acquired by Snyk in 2023. If you have run across the name while researching AppSec tooling, this guide explains what Enso built, what problem ASPM addresses, and how to think about the category whether or not you ever use Enso specifically.
Enso emerged from a practical frustration inside large engineering organizations: security teams could not answer basic questions about their own application estate. How many applications do we have? Which ones are being scanned? Who owns them? Which risks actually matter? ASPM was the answer to those questions, and Enso was among the first to name and productize it.
The problem ASPM solves
Modern enterprises run hundreds or thousands of applications and services, scanned by a patchwork of tools: SAST here, SCA there, secrets scanning, DAST, cloud posture, container scanning. Each tool produces its own findings in its own console. Nobody has a single view.
That fragmentation creates three concrete failures. First, coverage gaps: applications that no security tool is watching at all, invisible precisely because they are unscanned. Second, alert overload: thousands of findings across tools with no consistent way to say which are urgent. Third, no ownership: a finding with no clear engineering owner sits unfixed indefinitely.
ASPM sits above the scanners rather than replacing them. It ingests findings and metadata from the existing tools, builds an inventory of applications and their owners, correlates and deduplicates results, and applies risk-based prioritization so security teams work the issues that matter. In Enso's framing, it was about scaling an AppSec program to every application and every developer without hiring an army.
What Enso Security built
Enso was founded by Roy Erlich, Chen Gour Arie, and Barak Tawily, who had previously worked together at Wix. The company was small, around thirty people, and focused tightly on the ASPM problem rather than building yet another scanner.
The product's core moves were:
- Automated application discovery. Connect to source control, CI/CD, and cloud accounts to build a live inventory of what exists, rather than relying on a spreadsheet that is stale the day it is written.
- Tool aggregation. Pull findings from the scanners already in place, normalizing them into a common model so a "critical" from one tool can be weighed against a "critical" from another.
- Ownership mapping. Attribute each application and finding to a team, so remediation has a destination.
- Policy and prioritization. Let security teams codify what "risky" means for their organization and surface the findings that meet that bar.
The through-line is orchestration and visibility, not detection. Enso assumed you already had scanners; its value was making sense of them at scale.
The Snyk acquisition
Snyk announced its acquisition of Enso Security in 2023, expected to close in the second quarter of that year. The strategic logic was that Snyk had strong developer-facing scanning (SCA, SAST, container, IaC) but wanted the program-management layer that ASPM provides. Folding Enso in let Snyk offer both the detection and the posture-management view in one platform, and Enso's team joined Snyk. Several outlets reported the deal in the range of tens of millions of dollars, though the exact figure was not officially confirmed; treat any specific number as press estimate rather than fact.
For anyone evaluating tools today, the practical consequence is that "Enso Security" as a standalone product no longer exists in the way it did. Its capabilities live inside Snyk's platform. If you are comparing options, our Snyk comparison covers how that combined offering stacks up against alternatives.
How to evaluate ASPM for your team
Whether you look at Snyk's ASPM lineage from Enso or another vendor, the same evaluation questions apply:
Does it discover applications automatically, or do you feed it a list? Automated discovery is the whole point; a manual inventory reproduces the problem ASPM claims to solve.
How many of your existing tools does it integrate with? An ASPM layer is only as complete as its ingest. Check that it connects to the scanners and source-control systems you actually use.
Can it deduplicate and prioritize meaningfully, or does it just re-list every finding? Aggregation without prioritization is a bigger inbox, not a solution.
Does it map ownership? A finding you cannot route is a finding that does not get fixed.
One caution: ASPM is a layer on top of detection, not a substitute for it. You still need good scanners underneath. An accurate software composition analysis feed, for instance, is what makes the dependency-risk portion of any posture view trustworthy. Garbage in, confident-looking dashboard out. If you want to build the fundamentals first, the Safeguard Academy covers the underlying scanning disciplines that ASPM aggregates.
FAQ
What is Enso Security?
Enso Security was a startup that pioneered Application Security Posture Management (ASPM), a category for discovering applications, aggregating findings from existing security tools, and prioritizing risk across an organization. It was acquired by Snyk in 2023.
What does ASPM actually do?
ASPM sits above your scanners rather than replacing them. It builds an inventory of applications, ingests and deduplicates findings from tools like SAST, SCA, and DAST, maps ownership, and applies risk-based prioritization so teams work the issues that matter most.
Is Enso Security still a separate product?
No. After the 2023 Snyk acquisition, Enso's capabilities were folded into Snyk's platform and its team joined Snyk. There is no longer a standalone Enso Security product to purchase.
Do I need ASPM if I already run scanners?
ASPM adds value once you have enough tools and applications that no one can see the whole picture. If you run a single scanner on a handful of repos, it is overkill. As your tool count and application estate grow, the aggregation and prioritization layer becomes worthwhile.