The challenge
- The pressure on threat detection and prevention is rising. As the number of applications – particularly Web-based applications – increases, your vulnerability to attack goes up. Existing firewalls may not block attacks on new applications.
- Your business must comply with a growing number of corporate standards and government regulations, you need tools that can document the status of your application security
- Your security infrastructure is becoming more complex – as you address new requirements – increasing costs and the demands on your IT resources
Businesses are being asked to deliver more sophisticated and complex services to customers, employees and partners. But the applications that meet these demands must also be adaptable to constantly changing market demands. Increasingly the choice is to use Web-based applications for these new services. Businesses must focus on the security of these applications in order to protect themselves from potential exposure of confidential information and damage to the systems. Threats that are more than inconveniences, but can put the entire business at risk. Protection from these threats must be taken into account holistically – through the lifecycle of applications – from development to deployment to ongoing management and end-of-life consideration. IBM’s application security solutions allow companies to preemptively and actively protect applications from external and internal threats.
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