| HP Launches Application Security Solutions to Help Customers Prevent Web Attacks |
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| Tuesday, 21 April 2009 21:27 | |||
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Kuala Lumpur, April 20, 2009 – HP today announced major new releases of its application security software designed to help companies lower costs and protect against malicious web attacks by hackers. The new offerings are part of HP Application Security Center, a suite of software and services that helps companies ensure the security of their web applications by helping them discover, fix and prevent vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers. This video demonstrates one potential vulnerability. New offerings include:
With the new offerings from HP, IT executives can prioritize security issues by identifying the assets and data that matter most to their business. This approach allows organizations to focus their limited security resources on issues that have the greatest business impact. For example, organizations can prioritize security efforts for applications associated with credit card transactions and bring them into compliance with security guidelines from the Payment Card Industry (PCI). “To ensure that our web applications are secure, we have incorporated security testing into every facet of our quality assurance and web application development life cycle,” said Erika Pecciotto, executive director of enterprise technology and quality, Sony Pictures Entertainment. “With HP Application Security Center, which is integrated with HP’s quality and performance testing solutions, our team of highly skilled security experts is now able to increase our security capabilities across our 25 development groups.” Center of Excellence model improves security coverage, cuts costs HP Assessment Management Platform 8.0 software helps customers set up a Center of Excellence (CoE) for application security. In a CoE model, a small team of security experts helps analyze the results of security tests that are implemented by people that may not have security expertise. By using this model to test applications for security vulnerabilities within existing development, quality assurance and operations processes, organizations can increase security coverage across the enterprise at minimal cost. In addition, this model helps organizations find and fix security vulnerabilities earlier in the application design process which helps lower costs. HP Assessment Management Platform 8.0 software helps customers:
HP WebInspect 8.0 and HP Assessment Management Platform 8.0 software, which are based on the same testing and reporting code, help customers:
HP Software Professional Services provides a full line of education, consulting and packaged services to help customers quickly adopt an effective application security program. These services help customers rapidly deploy HP WebInspect software and develop an Application Security Center of Excellence. In addition, services provided by EDS, an HP company, help customers secure applications to reduce the risk of vulnerabilities. Additionally, Testing and Quality Assurance Services from EDS provide code scanning and application security testing from a global network of testing centers to ensure applications meet business expectations for security. “HP Application Security Center helps IT organizations manage the growing risk of security breaches that take place through web applications,” said Anthony McMahon, Vice President of HP Software & Solutions, Asia Pacific & Japan. “Today’s application modernization efforts are creating a better end-user experience but it may also produce websites that are more vulnerable to hackers.” Availability HP WebInspect 8.0 and HP Assessment Management Platform 8.0 are available now as licensed software products. HP Assessment Management Platform is expected to be available through HP SaaS in May. HP WebInspect 8.0 and HP Assessment Management Platform 8.0 will be demonstrated at the RSA 2009 Conference in San Francisco, April 20-24, booth 246. They will also be featured at HP Software Universe 2009 in Las Vegas, June 16-18. More information on the product launch is available at www.hp.com/go/stophackers.
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