Secure Application Development

Secure application development requires innovative solutions

Enterprises today have a lot riding on secure application development. Every month new threats emerge, and every vulnerability in software represents a significant risk to the organization. Secure application development aims to eliminate flaws in software before it is purchased or deployed, providing greater security for the enterprise. Yet if the process of searching for and remediating flaws consumes too much time or resources, secure application development can also be a drain on productivity and profitability. That's why Veracode has developed SecurityReview®—the industry-wide standard that features an automated, on-demand, application security testing solution employing binary analysis.

Veracode delivers on-demand solutions for secure application development

Veracode was founded by experts from a variety of leading software security firms—including @stake, Guardent, VeriSign, Symantec, and salesforce.com—to provide solutions for secure application development and software procurement. Veracode SecurityReview is an on-demand, binary code security analysis service that offers the enterprise distinct advantages over other software security solutions. By analyzing compiled code (or "byte" code) at the binary level rather than scanning source code, SecurityReview can deliver faster and more accurate results with fewer false positives. Veracode also enhances secure application development by reviewing third-party software very effectively. Because no matter how much effort is put into finding flaws in software during the development process, if an application procured from a vendor has vulnerabilities, the entire enterprise is at risk. By scanning compiled code, Veracode allows enterprises to easily review the security of third-party software without needing to deal with the issues around reviewing proprietary source code. That means enterprises can scan and secure the entire application, regardless of where each piece of code originated.

Improve secure software development, reduce application assessment costs

Because SecurityReview is an on-demand service and not a piece of software or hardware to be purchased, enterprises can achieve more cost-effective secure application development. Other risk managementsolutions require the organization to purchase expensive hardware or software that must be installed throughout the enterprise and updated frequently, since the variety and nature of threats are constantly evolving. Such a solution may also have difficulty serving the needs of an aggressive software development timeline—vulnerability scanning may become a bottleneck in the process if the solution is not robust enough. In contrast, Veracode can handle large volumes of code on demand and return actionable and prioritized results within 24 to 72 hours, allowing development to continue on schedule. And with no costs for hardware or software or the personnel to manage it, enterprises can achieve software security assessment more cost-effectively.

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