HP today announced major updates to its application security software as well as a new software-as-a-service offering to help businesses minimize the risk of security breaches due to hacker attacks and safeguard against theft of sensitive customer information.
The new release of HP Application Security Center helps organizations discover, fix and prevent security vulnerabilities in their web applications. New features in the software help bridge the gaps that exist among development, quality assurance, operations and security teams within an IT organization.
This lifecycle approach helps companies comply with government and industry regulations, such as the Federal Information Security Management Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, and the European Union Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications.
“While customer-facing applications may be the lifeblood of a business, if they are not secured, they can provide an open door for hackers to a company’s most sensitive data,” said Joseph Feiman, vice president and Gartner fellow, Gartner. “Organizations must not only find security vulnerabilities in their applications, they must fix them and be vigilant about prevention throughout the application lifecycle, from requirements definition, development and testing, through production.”