Security & Compliance Strategies

Faced with major application layer attacks, companies must formulate a comprehensive strategy to address these challenges. As such, application layer security is becoming the new frontier for IT security professionals.

On the corporate side, application like web 2.0, web mail, instant messaging, wiki’s, and more; are forcing security teams to find new ways to defend against internal and external threats. The balancing act of enabling users to take advantage of the benefits of these applications while ensuring that malicious traffic isn’t entering, or sensitive data isn’t leaving; is difficult to negotiate. To compound this, more and more companies are facing increasingly stringent compliance and regulatory issues around these same social media channels.

On the web application side, companies face a slew of advanced attacks aimed at getting to the corporate jewels (data bases). Exploiting poorly written code and known vulnerabilities, there have been many high profile attacks that have cost the targeted companies many millions of dollars.

A solid application aware security strategy incorporates “defense-in-depth” principals all the way up to the application layer. To learn more about our security strategies in this area, click here: