Web Application Security Testing

Web application security testing helps ensure cyber security

As web applications have connected companies to their customers, suppliers, employees, and other stakeholders, the potential for malicious attack has increased. With the network layer now fairly secure from cyber threats, hackers have turned to the application as the weak link in enterprise security. Consequently web application security testing is now a critical part of protecting the enterprise and its customers. Testing products have proliferated, but most are expensive to purchase and require ongoing investment in maintenance and upgrading. For a web application security testing solution that offers more effective and cost-efficient protection against cyber warfare, enterprises today choose Veracode.

Veracode: web application security testing on-demand

Veracode is the industry's first provider of automated, on-demand, application security testing solutions. Veracode SecurityReview® makes dynamic analysis for web applications available on an as-needed basis. Instead of purchasing expensive products, companies submit the Web URL to Veracode through an online portal and get results back within 24 to 72 hours. As an on-demand service built on the software-as-a-service (SaaS model), SecurityReview enables organizations to reduce expenses while easily scaling testing activity to meet the security needs of software development and software procurement teams. Veracode's web application security testing service provides additional cost reductions by improving productivity—test results are prioritized by the flaws that represent the greatest risk (to be fixed first) and those vulnerabilities that are easiest to fix and represent the most progress for the least effort. By integrating Veracode into SDLC security, development teams can easily adhere to web application security testing best-practices, testing applications at specific milestones for the most effective results.

Get web and static application testing for greater security

In addition to dynamic analysis for web application security testing, Veracode employs manual penetration testing and static code analysis. This combination of testing techniques would previously have required the purchase of multiple on-premises products; Vercode provides them as a unified on-demand service. Veracode's binary analysis provides a solution for analyzing applications when no source code is available. Because applications are frequently built from reusable binary components—commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software, third-party libraries, and components from outsourced vendors—source code is frequently not available for review when considering the purchase or deployment of software. That presents no obstacle for SecurtyReview, which scans applications at the binary level, looking at compiled or "byte" code instead of source code.

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