The importance of Application Security is growing rapidly with the increase of business needs for online transactions. Protecting online applications from hacking attempts is the prime concern to run a successful online business. Failing to protect web applications from malicious attempts leads to financial loss, legal complications and reputation damage. There are several legal requirements like PCI-DSS, Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA and HIPAA enforced on the online business to help protect customer’s sensitive data from theft and misuse.

Application security facts
Despite the investment in Information Security infrastructure and features such as firewalls, scanning tools or hardening; most of the attacks by malicious users happen through an HTTP request that can bypass those systems.
More than 60% of the Information Systems attacks occur at the application layer. More than 80% of the web applications have considerable critical vulnerabilities which can be easily exploited; thus giving hackers the ability to compromise sensitive data.

Risk Mitigation Strategy for Business Data
Softtek offers a mature and proven service which helps corporations a align their data protection and application security efforts to the business risk management strategies.

Business risk remediation program, a real cost effective solution

Softtek’s Information Security managed services provide a cost effective solution for risk remediation.
The program will protect web applications by defining strategies aligned with the information controllership. Supported by Softtek’s IT security professionals and security auditors, the program will also include information quality levels, vulnerability updates, research, consultancy and security support.

Application Security Services

• Security Assessments
  Softtek will identify security vulnerabilities in the portfolio of applications, and will provide recommendations to protect the company’s data and information assets.
  • White Box
    Comprehensive analysis of source code and documentation (i.e. technical specs) to understand how the program components interact and then identify and report vulnerabilities and provide specific remediation guidelines.
  • Black Box
    Also called application penetration testing or ethical hacking; it is aimed to find all the security flaws by using the same techniques a hacker could take advantage of. It could be performed on any “live” environment.
  • Grey Box
    The service includes performing real-time security tests to on-production web applications. Source code is provided to point the portions of code that might cause the breach.
• Application Security Awareness Management
  
• Application Security Policy Definition
  
• Application Data Classification
  
• Application Security Training for Application Development Teams
  
• Business Application Security Program
  
• Application Architecture and Design
  
• SDLC Integration