Application Development SecurityApplication development security is a critical enterprise priorityApplications today tend to be the weak link in enterprise security. Having been effectively stopped from penetrating the enterprise at the network layer, hackers now use software vulnerabilities or malicious code and backdoors embedded in application code to gain access to confidential customer and company information. Application development security is consequently an essential part of protecting the enterprise. Organizations must employ solutions to scan code, seeking to find both malicious code as well as flaws in software that could create vulnerabilities. But many application development security products are expensive to purchase and maintain. And most are unable to scan an entire application, since software today is often "mashed up" with code from a variety of sources—the source code is simply unavailable for review. That's why Veracode has developed an innovative new method for achieving application development security—the industry's only automated, on-demand, application security testing solution. Veracode delivers cost-effective, on-demand, application development securityVeracode was founded by security experts from @stake, Guardent, Verisign, and Symantec to provide a more effective and cost-efficient way to ensure application development security—and Veracode SecurityReview® delivers on both counts. SecurityReview is built on the software-as-a-service model, delivering code analysis as an on-demand service. That means organizations can avoid capital investment in software security assurance products, thus allowing companies to easily scale secure software development testing. And SecurityReview uses multiple testing techniques to offer the most comprehensive secure software testing solution in the industry today. In addition to dynamic analysis (for web services security) and manual penetration testing, Veracode uses static binary analysis to scan binary (compiled or "byte" code) instead of source code, allowing SecurityReview to provide 100 percent coverage of any application. No other testing solution provides coverage this complete. Enhance security and speed development with automated application testingVeracode SecurityReview enables organizations to speed secure software development while improving security at the same time. SecurityReview uses a milestone-based approach to testing that embeds secure coding best-practices in the software development life cycle. The result is reduced costs, more secure software, and shorter development cycles. Because Veracode is a truly outsourced service, developers can be freed to focus on building secure applications and meet project deadlines instead of learning and maintaining testing products. And with testing results prioritized by risk level and ease of remediation—and delivered in an online environment—globally distributed teams of developers can collaborate to fix flaws quickly and cost-effectively. |
