Software Security Vulnerability

Don't let a software security vulnerability threaten your organization

Today, the battle for enterprise security is taking place at the application layer. With over 75 percent of threats and attacks directed at applications, a software security vulnerability can lead to the loss of confidential company and customer information. To find a software security vulnerability before an application is purchased or deployed, enterprises must rely on software security testing. But application security testing tools have not proven easy or cost-effective to implement. Products are frequently expensive, requiring companies not only to purchase and install expensive hardware and software, but also to train personnel, hire consultants, and upgrade frequently. Even after organizations have spent considerable time and energy implementing existing testing tools, many companies have found them to be ineffective. Most application security testing products only scan source code when looking for a vulnerability. But applications today are often built from diverse components such as third-party libraries, outsourced code, and reusable binary components. However, source code is frequently not available, leaving the organization unable to test large parts of an application. That's why more organizations looking to prevent a software security vulnerability choose Veracode.

Veracode: On-demand software security vulnerability testing

Founded by experts from @stake, Guardent, Symantec, and Verisign, Veracode is dedicated to making it easy and cost-effective to protect enterprises against the software security vulnerability. Veracode SecurityReview® is the industry's first automated, on-demand, application security testing solution.

SecurityReview solves the problems of application testing:

• On-demand—SecurityReview is built on the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model . Companies submit applications online and SecurityReview tests it for vulnerability issues and returns results within 24 to 72 hours. There is no hardware or software to buy, no security personnel to train, and no upgrades to manage. Veracode's team of world-class application security experts constantly refines the testing methodology as threats and technology evolve.
• Binary analysis—SecurityReview uses the industry's first static binary analysis to deliver more accurate and comprehensive test results. Because all the source code for an application is not always available for testing, Veracode scans at the binary level—on compiled or "byte" code. That means that while other tools offer only partial scans that can easily overlook a software vulnerability, Veracode delivers 100 percent coverage.
• Multiple testing techniques—In addition to static code analysis, SecurityReview also incorporates dynamic application security testing (or web application security testing) and manual penetration testing, delivering a single, comprehensive solution.

Enhance security, speed software development and vulnerability remediation

With Veracode, enterprises can easily make application security an embedded part of the secure software development life cycle as well as part of the software procurement process. Developers and purchasers don't need to be security experts—with Veracode's highly effective, cost-efficient, on-demand service, they simply submit applications and get results quickly, allowing them to meet deadlines—and even improve software development and purchase processes.

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