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Home > Security > Application Security Application Security encompasses measures taken to prevent exceptions in the security policy of an application or the underlying system (vulnerabilities) through flaws in the design, development, or deployment of the application. Results 1 - 25 of 61 matches Sort Results By : Published Date | Title | Company name PDF security - a brief history of development By : LockLizard Published Date: Dec 08, 2008 This paper covers the development of PDF security from simple password protection mechanisms to access controls and DRM.  It discusses lifecycle management, PKI and digital certificates, PDF password security, PDF encryption, PDF DRM, Adobe livecycle / policy server, PDF control, and third party systems and standards for protecting PDF files. Download Now IPR and the Digital Revolution By : LockLizard Published Date: Dec 05, 2008 This paper covers why intellectual property law is ineffective in protecting the rights of small authors and publishers. It covers intellectual property rights (IPR), licensing controls, copyright, and copyright protection. Download Now Document Security - a guide to securing your documents By : LockLizard Published Date: Dec 05, 2008 This paper explains what components make up a document security solution and which one is right for you.  It covers the use of encryption, copy protection, digital rights management and document collaboration as the methods available to protect information. Download Now Software Assurance - An Executive Discussion on Securing the Enterprise By : Fortify Published Date: Nov 19, 2008 While investments to secure the enterprise continue to rise, breaches into company systems and data are skyrocketing. These cyber crimes are consistently debilitating organizations operations, reputations and ultimately, viability. Today’s CEOs are demanding aggressive strategies to protect their business. CIOs and CSOs are working together to employ proven Business Software Assurance approaches across the enterprise to stay ahead of constant threats. Download Now Design Firm Raises Per-Employee Revenue by 25 Percent with Collaboration Solution By : Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Published Date: Sep 22, 2008 Engineering firm Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon, Inc. needed to collaborate more efficiently across its 11 offices in the eastern United States. The firm chose ProjectWise collaboration software for engineering content management, content publishing, and design review, and integrated it with Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007, to manage business processes and documents in a distributed environment. Find out more. Download Now How Europe's largest e-commerce business secures its applications By : Fortify Published Date: Sep 15, 2008 Adrian Asher, Chief Security Officer at Betfair, an online UK betting exchange explains how he manages a “culture of security” and protects the Betfair brand in this 20-minute candid interview. Download Now Software Vulnerabilities with eVoting By : Fortify Published Date: Sep 15, 2008 Fortify Software conducted a candid interview with Avi Rubin, Professor at Johns Hopkins University and specialist in the field of eVoting security risks. He discusses the concerns around software security as well as the voting solutions surrounding software independence. Download Now A CISO's Guide to Securing Open Source Software By : Fortify Published Date: Aug 15, 2008 For a CISO, open source introduces a new source of risk and unique security challenge: how do you influence developers over whom you have no direct management control? Jennifer Bayuk, former CISO of Bear Stearns, provides insight on best practices for evaluating, deploying and managing open source code. Download Now Proactive Network Defense - The Case for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) By : TriGeo Network Security Published Date: May 15, 2008 It’s widely accepted that Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems are excellent tools for regulatory compliance, log management and analysis, trouble-shooting and forensic analysis. What’s surprising to many is that this technology can play a significant role in actively defending networks. This whitepaper explains precisely how real-time analysis, combined with in-memory correlation, and automated notification and remediation capabilities can provide unprecedented network visibility, security and control. Download Now Preventing Your Next Microsoft Exchange Outage By : AppAssure Software Published Date: Apr 25, 2008 Messaging has rapidly become the one, true business critical application in use today by many, probably most, enterprises. Even more so than Enterprise Resource Planning or other cross-business applications, any failure in the messaging system is noticed by, and affects everyone. If a person cannot get an e-mail to or from another person then they are immediately in contact with the help desk to report the problem. Users are far less inclined to be forgiving when it comes to an e-mail outage; they just expect it to work. Download Now Identifying & Thwarting Malicious Intrusions By : MX Logic Published Date: Apr 24, 2008 Rootkits, Trojans, ransomware, Denial-of-Service and much more – this newly released white paper from MX Logic covers the everchanging security threat landscape. Learn what malicious intrusions are out there, how to identify them and how to keep your network safe. Download Now Effective Web Policies: Ensuring Staff Productivity and Legal Compliance By : Sophos Published Date: Apr 10, 2008 Employees increasingly expect to use the internet at work for their own personal use in return for longer hours, working from home and interrupting vacations. This has a number of security, productivity, bandwidth and legal ramifications that require organizations to create and implement a web usage policy that is backed up by effective web filtering tools. Download Now The Right Tool for the Right Job: An Application Security Tools Report Card By : Ounce Labs Published Date: Apr 01, 2008 During the 80s, war dialing and phone phreaking were the attacks that garnered all the headlines. In the 90s it was all about web defacement and the ubiquitous email virus. The last seven years have given rise to identity data theft and privacy concerns. For the past twenty years, organizations have focused on protecting the network; but in the last ten years it has become clear that the core threat is not, nor really ever was, access to the network. Download Now Software Security Governance in the Development Lifecycle By : Ounce Labs Published Date: Mar 24, 2008 There are many key drivers for application security, such as managing the high levels of complexity in rapidly changing IT environments as well as regulatory and compliance demands. With recent high profile breaches and their consequences in the headlines, the direct line between insecure software and data insecurity has never been more clear. As a result, organizations with a strong commitment to data integrity and privacy are taking concrete, measurable steps to ensure the software systems that control data are developed securely. Download Now Why Application Security is Crucial and What Companies Are Doing About It By : Quocirca Published Date: Mar 18, 2008 Today, many organizations are increasingly reliant on software application development to deliver them competitive edge. Simultaneously, they are progressively opening up their computer networks to business partners, customers and suppliers and making use of next-generation programming languages and computing techniques to provide a richer experience for these users. However, hackers are refocusing their attention on the vulnerabilities and flaws contained in those applications. Download Now GoToMeeting Security White Paper By : Citrix Online Published Date: Jan 31, 2008 This document provides a technical description of the security features built into GoToMeeting. It has been written for technical evaluators and security specialists who are responsible for ensuring the safety of their company’s network and the privacy and integrity of business communications. Download Now Virtualized Applications Streamline, Secure and Manage Your Business By : Citrix Published Date: Jan 25, 2008 Hundreds, even thousands, of applications serve as the lifeblood of each of today’s distributed global enterprises—at use in more places and in more ways than ever before. To deal with the growing complexity and cost of application deployment, maintenance and performance, organizations are looking for solutions to streamline, secure and manage delivery of their most business critical applications. Download Now What's the Big Deal with Managed Security Services? By : MX Logic Published Date: Jan 16, 2008 In this recent report, the Aberdeen Group’s research revealed that 100% of Best-in-Class companies consume some managed security services as part of their security strategy. The most widely deployed and easiest to implement managed security service is email security. Download Now Howard Schmidt, Former CSO for Microsoft and eBay and Former White House Cyber Security Czar By : Fortify Published Date: Jan 15, 2008 With an extensive background in police, military, government, and industry security, Howard Schmidt explains how to respond to the changing landscape of cyber threats and how business leaders are helping set the standards for application security. He then profiles industry role models who are setting the standard for application security. Download Now How Can Identity and Access Management Help Me with PCI Compliance While Improving Overall Security? By : CA Published Date: Dec 31, 2007 PCI Compliance has become a business requirement for any company involved in the processing of credit card information. It requires strong security controls over all systems and applications that process or store cardholder information. These controls serve to manage vulnerabilities and to control access to all confidential information. Download Now Web Application Security: Automated Scanning Versus Manual Penetration Testing By : IBM Published Date: Dec 27, 2007 There are many ways to uncover Web application vulnerabilities. This white paper examines a few of these vulnerability detection methods – comparing and contrasting manual penetration testing with automated scanning tools. What you’ll discover is that neither of these methods are an exhaustive method for identifying Web application vulnerabilities. Download Now Understanding Web Application Security Challenges By : IBM Published Date: Dec 26, 2007 As businesses grow increasingly dependent upon Web applications, these complex entities are becoming more difficult to secure. Most companies equip their Web sites with firewalls, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), and network and host security, but the majority of attacks are on applications themselves. Download Now Meeting the PCI Application Security Requirements: Building Compliance In By : Ounce Labs Published Date: Nov 15, 2007 The PCI DSS is demonstrably becoming a de facto standard of due care for any organization responsible for the privacy and integrity of data. The increased focus on application security in the latest revisions of the PCI DSS can be traced directly to many of the recent high profile breaches, where insecure applications have proved to be the point of access for hackers, and the source of data loss. Download Now Document Security - the protection of confidential information from intellectual property theft By : LockLizard Published Date: Nov 02, 2007 The Austin Diagnostic Clinic had to protect confidential information contained in their management documents so that it could be made available to physicians who could not make it to management meetings. Download Now Trust, But Verify: How to Manage Risk in Outsourced Applications By : Ounce Labs Published Date: Sep 11, 2007 This paper will discuss the need for addressing security concerns in outsourced applications, outline a framework for addressing those concerns, explore the role of source code review to assess and certify outsourced applications, and provide a sample contract addendum for including secure code requirements in RFP's and outsourcing contracts. Download Now   Results 1 - 25 of 61 matches Sort Results By : Published Date | Title | Company name Home > Security > Application Security << Start < Previous 1 2 3 Next > End >> More Security Topics Access Control, Anti Spam, Anti Spyware, Anti Virus, Application Security, Auditing, Authentication, Biometrics, Business Continuity, Compliance, DDoS, Disaster Recovery, Email Security, Encryption, Firewalls, Hacker Detection, High Availability, Identity Management, Internet Security, Intrusion Detection, Intrusion Prevention, IPSec, Network Security Appliance, Password Management, Patch Management, Phishing, PKI, Policy Based Management, Security Management, Security Policies, Single Sign On, SSL, Secure Instant Messaging, Web Service Security SUBSCRIBE FORM Receive an email alert whenever new research is added into: Application Security Enter your email below: RELATED TOPICS Access Control 157 Documents Authentication 98 Documents Biometrics 2 Documents Business Continuity 90 Documents DDoS 5 Documents Disaster Recovery 110 Documents Email Security 173 Documents Encryption 79 Documents Firewalls 48 Documents Hacker Detection 73 Documents Identity Management 106 Documents Internet Security 160 Documents Intrusion Detection 61 Documents Intrusion Prevention 129 Documents Network Security 217 Documents Network Security Appliance 47 Documents PKI 10 Documents Password Management 55 Documents Security 399 Documents Security Management 225 Documents Vertical Search 1 Documents
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