Application Security

“We have firewalls in place, including internal partitions…”
“We run all incoming emails through antivirus protection…”
“We use robust, role-based user authentication on all systems…”

...among the most common responses regarding the state of security that exists in many environments.

A good start but, these measures only address network and host security and will not prevent:

  • Hackers from exploiting code vulnerabilities that gain unauthorized access to systems and data.
  • Malicious external users with legitimate permissions that break into supposedly secure areas.
  • A disgruntled employee from wreaking havoc on your business-critical systems.

Only a commitment to true application security does that.

Application security is the discipline of designing applications to protect themselves from external and internal threats. To do so requires understanding of the methods used by hackers to either bypass traditional id/password-based security, or to invoke legitimate functionality to gain illegitimate access to supposedly protected domains and data.

It also requires the use of sophisticated tools, techniques and human talents to identify vulnerabilities, quantify the risk and devise changes to application code so that hackers can't hack - from inside or outside your firewalls.





SQA's Application Security services are built to help companies defend against the enormous financial costs, brand damage, and liabilities that application security breaches cause.

But beyond simply defensive measures SQA can bring the necessary strategy, design, approach and hands on expertise to ensure that a “culture of application security” is created. A culture that moves the removal of application vulnerabilities to the left side of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

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