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- Protect Data and Client Trust: An End-to-End Approach to Protecting Your Web Applications and Your Organization
- Every day, more and more business is conducted online creating new challenges for meeting Web application security and compliance. It's a hacker's dream and your security nightmare. Due to the dynamic nature and prevalence of these applications, criminals are increasingly targeting Web-based...
- Tags: Web Application, Application Security, IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Security
- Webcasts 2009-09-16
- Improve Application Security With VMware vSphere 4
- VMware vShield Zones, a new capability in VMware vSphere 4, enables network partitioning of virtual datacenters across logical organizational and trust boundaries, with virtualization-aware visibility and VMware VMotion compatibility. VMware vShield Zones provides convenient, secure virtualization of Internet-facing DMZs, compliance with firewalling and network segmentation requirements of PCI and regulatory...
- Tags: Network, VMware Inc., Application Security, VMware vShield Zones, Virtualization, Hardware
- Webcasts 2009-04-14
- Application Security Market Trends for Service Providers: Security Approaches for Business-Critical Applications and Data in Today's Evolving Threat Landscape
- The protection of the applications and data that drive business processes and transactions is critical for ensuring business availability, employee productivity, revenue loss avoidance, and brand and corporate reputation protection. As the miscreant economy spreads across all sectors of the economy and threats increase in sophistication and complexity, the protection...
- Tags: Service Provider, Application Security, Business Services, Security
- White papers 2009-03-01
- Top 5 Application Security Vulnerabilities and How to Mitigate Them
- Independent Software Vendors ISVs face many challenges in bringing a software product to market. Good coding practices can reveal bugs before customers experience them, prevent outsiders from accessing data they shouldn't, and deliver a high-quality product. Unfortunately, under the pressure of a tight development schedule, it is difficult to stay...
- Tags: Software, Software Company, Vulnerability, Monitoring, Intel Corp., Application Security, Security Administration, Security, Tools & Techniques, Management
- White papers 2009-03-01
- Staying a step ahead of the hackers: the importance of identifying critical Web application vulnerabilities
- Managers work to better manage the risks associated with their business infrastructure. Web application security plays a significant role in achieveing this goal. This white paper deals with issues surrounding web application security
- Tags: Vulnerability, Web Application, Hacker, Application Security, Cloud Computing, Security
- White papers 2009-01-23
- Web application security: automated scanning versus manual penetration testing.
- research has shown that a vast number of web sites are vunerable to application attacks, most occur over HTTP/S protocals. There are twom methods to detect web vunerablity . This white paper address these two methods of web vunerablitites
- Tags: Web, Penetration Testing, Web Application, Application Security, IBM Corp., Channel Management, Security, Marketing
- White papers 2009-01-21
- Jump Start Application Security Initiatives With SaaS
- With major security breaches in the news, CSOs are no longer asking why they need an application security program and have turned their attention to how. The attendee of this webcast will learn specific strategies and techniques for jump starting the application security initiatives with very few security experts, tight...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Application Security, CXO Media, Security Administration, Security
- Webcasts 2009-01-01
- Report on Application Security for the Federal Industry
- Are the IDS logs providing the security team with overwhelming data? Ever noticed clear attempts at cyber Espionage? Businesses in every industry are affected by web application security - even at the federal level. Rsignia has 20 years of experience in the federal industry and they will share examples of...
- Tags: Industry, Application Security, Breach Security, Rsignia, Security
- Webcasts 2009-01-01
- Web Application Firewall: A Cost Effective Way to Improve Web Application Security
- With all the options out there today, it's hard to know who to trust. This webcast will help to find cost effective ways to improve the web application security. The presenter of this webcast will throw light on the latest developments in the industry and advice on choosing the right...
- Tags: Web, Firewall, Web Application, Application Security, Application Firewall, Breach Security, Cloud Computing, Security
- Webcasts 2009-01-01
- Application Security & OCC Bullet in 2008-16: A Blueprint for Compliance
- Recently, the Comptroller of the Currency OCC took the extraordinary step of issuing a bulletin (OCC Bulletin 2008-16) to alert financial institutions of the risks posed by insecure software and recommend steps banks should take to reduce risk and protect their critical data. The OCC guidance is well timed with...
- Tags: Veracode Inc., Software, Vulnerability, Compliance, Application Security, OCC Guidance, Tools & Techniques, Security, Management
- White papers 2008-10-24
- Protect Your Sensitive Data, Ignoring Online Privacy and Application Security Isn't Just a Compliance Issue: It's a Risk Issue!
- With 75% of attacks targeting Web applications, hacking has evolved into big business where stolen data carries a large dollar value. As a result, many regulatory groups are acknowledging this problem by creating Web application security specific compliance requirements. The Payment Card Industry PCI Data Security Standard DSS is one...
- Tags: Compliance, Online Privacy, Web Application, Application Security, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, Security
- Webcasts 2008-10-16
- Hardware Enforcement of Application Security Policies Using Tagged Memory
- Computers are notoriously insecure, in part because application security policies do not map well onto traditional protection mechanisms such as Unix user accounts or hardware page tables. This paper shows that enforcement of these policies can be pushed largely into the processor itself, by using tagged memory support, which can...
- Tags: Memory, Hardware, Application Security, Security
- White papers 2008-10-09
- Implications of Outsourcing Web Application Security
- Organizations can never outsource liability for web application security. As cyber criminals have flourished and the number of attacks on the web application layer by hackers continues to grow unabated, it is incumbent on organizations to ensure web application security. Dozens of security and privacy regulations help guide organizations towards...
- Tags: Web Application, Outsourcing, Application Security, Pacific Coast Information Systems, Cloud Computing, Security
- White papers 2008-09-12
- Why open source fails application security tests
- Why open source fails application security testsMakes SenseMost FOSS is built by people with a passion to make something important to them. Implementing comprehensive security is not a fun task to do when developing software.RE: Why open source fails application security testsYou could have summed it up by saying that...
- Tags: application security test, application security, open source, security
- Discussion threads 2008-08-01
- Why open source fails application security tests
- Thornton has knocked down the door and gotten our attention. Now he needs to work cooperatively with the community -- including other security vendors -- to get it back on its hinges. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Application Security, Open Source, Security, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Fortify warns of configuration weaknesses in SOA deployments
- Security code review specialists Fortify Software has issued a warning about major configuration weaknesses affecting SOA service oriented architecture deployments from IBM, Microsoft and Apache. According to Fortify, certain configurations of Apache Axis, Apache Axis 2, IBM WebSphere 6.1, Microsoft .NET Web Services Enhancements WSE 2.0 and...
- Tags: Apache Software Foundation, SOA, Application Security, Attack, Veracode, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Security, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Australian Unity Minimizes Costs and Maximizes Productivity With Single Sign-On for 1,400 Users
- Australian Unity is a national health, financial services and retirement living organisation that has been caring for the wellbeing needs of Australians for over 165 years. Australian Unity needed to address its business and security risks that could affect business reputation and growth. This included user management, application management and...
- Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., Single Sign-on, Application Security, Australian Unity, Security
- Case studies 2008-07-29
- Automating Your Code Review: Moving to a SaaS Model for Application Security
- Today's application has become the enterprise's ''New Perimeter''. With better network?-level security technology hardening the network perimeter, malicious attackers are now focusing their efforts to strike at the least defended points - the application. While hackers were once satisfied with defacing Web sites, unleashing denial-of-service attacks and trading illicit files...
- Tags: Veracode Inc., Software-as-a-service, Attacker, Network, Application Security, Software As A Service (SaaS), Security, Networking, Emerging Technologies
- White papers 2008-07-10
- Towards Application Security on Untrusted Operating Systems
- Complexity in commodity operating systems makes compromises inevitable. Consequently, a great deal of work has examined how to protect security-critical portions of applications from the OS through mechanisms such as microkernels, virtual machine monitors, and new processor architectures. Unfortunately, most work has focused on CPU and memory isolation and neglected...
- Tags: Operating System, Application Security, Operating Systems, Security, Software
- White papers 2008-07-01
- IT Manager Webcast: How Microsoft IT Does Secure Application Development (Level 200)
- The attendee of this webcast will learn how Microsoft IT's Application Consulting and Engineering ACE team secures Microsoft's internal business applications. The ACE team will share state of the industry, application security challenges, and how application security fits into the development lifecycle for IT. The attendee will learn about the...
- Tags: Application Development, Webcast, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Application Security, Security
- Webcasts 2008-05-29
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