The What, Where and How of Application Security Why is application security such a hot issue moving into 2010 and beyond? Applications are becoming more pervasive, organizations are growing and implementing smarter software to support business process, product development and daily operations. The way businesses are dealing with their customers, their partners and their own
Software has driven corporate value like no other businesscapability for the past decade. As the planet continues tobecome more technically instrumented and interconnected,software will allow businesses of all types to derive intelligencefrom innumerable data sources in new, innovative and smarter ways.
Historically, the design of IT infrastructure did not always account forthe importance of security. System qualities such as “fast, cost-efficientor highly scalable” were prized ahead of “secure”. However, as our world has become increasingly more instrumented and interconnected,the incidence of cyber crime and data theft have only increased. Now, customer trust has intangible business value,
UK-based Oasis Medical Solutions Ltd. engaged Ecommnet Ltd. to mobilize the test results component of its Patient Administration System in order to enable clinicians and other hospital staff to access and review test results more quickly on their iPhone. Faced with an extremely aggressive development timetable, Ecommnet deployed Sybase technology, SQL Anywhere as the data
Three business trends are fueling strong demand for mobilized versions of enterprise applications: • Rapid uptake of smartphone adoption among information workers • Sufficient power and connectivity speed to power true enterprise-level capabilities • Steady increase in support for on-the-job smartphone use by employers These mobile market trends are converging to create a singularly pivotal
This white paper will help you understand the threat from malware and how it can impact your online business. You’ll learn about criminals’ motivations for distributing malware through the web and how they infect web servers to make distribution possible. This paper also highlights techniques administrators can use to detect when and how attackers have
Security experts generally recommend applying security updates to software as soon as possible, as the overwhelming majority of attacks against vulnerabilities are against those that have already been addressed with patches from the software developer. But, published scenarios enable attackers to compromise the safety of these updates. Some code distribution methods rely only on Secure
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is the de facto standard for e-commerce security. It confronts the potential problems of unauthorized viewing of confidential information, data manipulation, data hijacking, phishing, and other insidious web site scams by encrypting sensitive data so that only authorized recipients can access it. In addition, through authentication, SSL helps provide your web
Advances in attacks on network security over the last few years have led to many high-profile compromises of enterprise networks and breaches of data security. A new attack is threatening to expand the potential for attackers to compromise enterprise servers and the critical data on them. Solutions are available, and they will require action by
When you think about your disaster recovery plan, does your tape backup system come to mind? Does the mere mention of disaster recovery make you a bit nervous? If so, you’re not alone. Many businesses risk grave losses due to failures and disasters yet continue to depend on their tape backups to help them recover