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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 55 matches Sort Results By : Published Date | Title | Company name 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 An Intelligent Approach to Application Security By : Preventia Published Date: Mar 31, 2006 Forget about phrases like “guaranteed”, “absolute integrity”, “assured”. There is really only one thing that you need to know about all those systems that you are currently running, mission-critical or not – absolutely all applications are insecure. The certainty of this statement was shown by fundamental research in computability from the legendary code-breaker Alan Turing. Download Now Application Security: No Room for False Positives By : Cenzic Published Date: Jul 01, 2006 Enterprises are responding to new threat on communication protocols by hardening Web applications, and they are increasingly turning to Web application security assessment tools to improve the security of their applications. This report examines why high accuracy is critical to the effectiveness of the tools, and it discusses how Cenzic Hailstorm addresses this problem. Download Now Breaking Through the Dissimilar Hardware Challenge By : Symantec Published Date: Aug 30, 2006 IT administrators need to minimize downtime for critical IT services by rapidly recovering entire systems to dissimilar hardware platforms or virtual environments. Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Server Edition combines the speed and reliability of disk-based, bare-metal Windows system recovery with dissimilar hardware restoration and lights-out operation. Download Now CA SiteMinder 100 Million User Project: Cost-Effective Access Management for Large-Scale Enterprise By : CA Published Date: Jun 16, 2005 This paper describes CA SiteMinder performance and scalability in a 100 million user deployment, the test environment, tests conducted and their results, and important conclusions and recommendations. Download Now CA SiteMinder: Security for Enterprise Web Applications By : CA Published Date: Dec 01, 2006 This technical white paper explains how CA SiteMinder provides all the essential security services required to meet the challenge of building and managing secure websites, while also including management features and technical capabilities that can reduce the total cost of ownership. Download Now Cenzic Software: Identity Theft Laws And Application Security By : Cenzic Published Date: Nov 30, 2005 The Cenzic Hailstorm® solution helps companies comply with AB 1950, allowing companies to use automated processes to manage their security. Hailstorm is a key tool for preventing breaches. Download Now Cenzic: Application Security for Financial Institutions By : Cenzic Published Date: Nov 30, 2005 The Cenzic Hailstorm® solution helps financial institutions comply with GLBA and other laws by automating risk assessment, checking for vulnerability to the injection of malicious code into Web servers, automating the testing of code and key controls during the software development process, and helping them respond to new vulnerabilities in the software development lifecycle. Download Now Controlling, Delegating, Logging and Auditing Root Actions with Symark PowerBroker By : Symark Published Date: Oct 26, 2005 The purpose of the document is to demonstrate the value of Symark PowerBroker as a tool for eliminating or reducing risk in environments where information security and risk avoidance are considered important. 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 Dig Your Own Hole - 12 Ways to Go Wrong With Java Security By : Fortify Published Date: Apr 16, 2007 This webinar explores 12 of the most common security traps in Java by examining the causes of security failures in modern Java–based applications. Approaching security with an “outside in” style, we look at vulnerabilities from a developer’s perspective, focusing on the source code. Download Now Dude! You Say I Need an Application Layer Firewall?! By : Secure Computing Published Date: Feb 23, 2007 This industry white paper takes the mystery out of the key differences in the main classes of firewall architectures. It was independently written by Marcus J. Ranum, a world-renowned expert on security system design and implementation. It includes fundamental lessons about building application layer firewalls, technical examples, and concludes with predictions about the future of firewall technology. 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 Fresh Approaches to Solving the Malware Problem By : Secure Computing Published Date: Nov 01, 2006 Organizations need to be protected from both known and unknown threats, and all the varieties and forms that sophisticated malware can take.  Learn about the changing nature of malware attacks and how the Webwasher Anti-Malware from Secure Computing can provide a highly effective defense against malicious content. Download Now FTP is Free But can you Really Afford It? By : Sterling Commerce Published Date: Oct 05, 2005 The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a widely used, unsophisticated and straightforward way to move files to and from remote platforms. This paper examines the hidden costs that result from extended FTP use for critical data movement. 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 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 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 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 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 Information Security Obligations Under UK Law By : PassGo Published Date: Oct 21, 2005 The law in the United Kingdom has various influences on organizational information security policy. As well as protecting the rights of individuals and organizations, it also imposes many duties and responsibilities. For organizations to meet their legal obligations a number of technical controls can be put in place. Download Now Leveraging Automation to Quickly Reveal Vulnerabilities By : Cenzic Published Date: Nov 30, 2005 With web applications constantly evolving, finding vulnerabilities is a challenging, costly and time-consuming undertaking.  Find out how Cenzic's powerful security solutions help information security teams quickly identify problems, regularly assess web application security strength and ensure regulatory compliance. 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 Mitigating the Risk from Application Vulnerabilities – Without Breaking the Bank By : Preventia Published Date: Mar 29, 2007 Businesses must adapt quickly to realize new opportunities and maximize value from their critical information assets. However traditional security controls are no longer sufficient, as the enemy can now gain control of your database using novel, customized and highly personal attacks. Vulnerabilities in your applications are now the weakest link. Download Now On-Demand Vulnerability Management By : Qualys Published Date: Aug 08, 2006 Learn how to start your own self-auditing process by setting goals and answering key questions about your infrastructure. This podcast examines what to look for in a self-audition solution, how to use vulnerability management to ease the pain and why your software solution really matters. 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