The Cortex Cloud Application Security module provides comprehensive security for your applications throughout their entire lifecycle. It offers unified visibility and control over your application's security from development through to deployment.
## Use cases
* **Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)**: Provides a consolidated view of application risks and vulnerabilities across your environment, enabling you to understand and manage your overall security posture. For more information refer to [Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)](https://app.gitbook.com/s/8Z0RLJ1BFF5TQL8VtUeK/application-security-posture-management-aspm/application-security-posture-management-aspm)
* **Supply Chain Security**: Focuses on securing your continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, ensuring the integrity and security of your automated build and deployment processes. For more information refer to [Software supply chain security](https://app.gitbook.com/s/8Z0RLJ1BFF5TQL8VtUeK/software-supply-chain-security/software-supply-chain-security)
* **Code Security**: Identifies and helps mitigate security issues directly within your source code, including exposed secrets, vulnerabilities in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and open-source components, license miscompliance and package operational risk. from the earliest stages of development. For more information refer to [Code Security](https://app.gitbook.com/s/8Z0RLJ1BFF5TQL8VtUeK/code-security/code-security-scanners)
## License requirements
To enable and utilize the components of the Application Security module, an active base license is required.
While some features are included by default, others require a dedicated add-on purchase.
## Base licenses
You must have at least one of the following active base licenses to access the Application Security module:
* Cloud Posture Security or Cloud Runtime Security
* Cortex XSIAM Premium
### Module components
* Application Security Posture Management (ASPM): Included with base license
* Supply Chain Security: Included with base license
* Code security: Requires a separate **Application Security Add-on** purchase in addition to your existing Cloud (Posture or Runtime) or Cortex XSIAM Premium base license
For more information, see [Cortex Cloud Application Security](https://app.gitbook.com/o/r4DIGbR5VLvkZy3gAYsu/s/8Z0RLJ1BFF5TQL8VtUeK/)