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Application Security

Applications are of crucial importance to a business nowadays, not only because they help it evolve and connect to its customers, but also because they’re a door that goes straight to yours and your customer’s data. This data may be the target of many attackers who could potentially disrupt and/or damage your business.

That’s why we are offering many advanced solutions so that your business’s applications, and the data they lead to, can be protected from any kind of threat, ensuring the stability and continuity of your business.

That’s why we are offering many advanced solutions so that your business’s applications, and the data they lead to, can be protected from any kind of threat, ensuring the stability and continuity of your business.

AST & DAST

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) scans the application source files, accurately identifies the root cause and helps remediate the underlying security flaws.

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) simulates controlled attacks on a running web application or service to identify exploitable vulnerabilities in a running environment.

Speed vs Accuracy

Today, every business is a software business. As a result, there has been tremendous growth in the number of web and mobile applications and increasing frequency of application releases. In order to keep up with the business demands, many organizations perform lighter weight security scans, which sacrifice the accuracy needed to detect crucial vulnerabilities. Agility in security is a balance between performing thorough, accurate scans and the associated false positives that can paralyze remediation.

On-Premise vs SaaS Solutions

On-Premise
Application security testing solutions can be run on-premise (in-house), operated and maintained by in-house teams. This approach requires organizations to provide the infrastructure, the personnel and acquire application security solutions for their usage. On-premise assures organizations that their application data is not shared with third parties and does not leave the premises.

SaaS
Application security can also be a SaaS (or application security as a service) offering where the customer consumes services provided as a turnkey solution by the application security provider. This approach doesn’t require any of the prerequisites of the on-premise approach but it does require relying partially or completely on the SaaS vendor and in most cases, allow the application data to be shared with the vendor. SaaS provides an easy way to get started on application security and can offer scalability and speed. Hybrid implementations (using on-premise and SaaS together in different projects and practices) aim to provide the best of both worlds by providing flexibility, scalability and cost optimization.