Thursday, 22 March 2007

Fortify Offers Protection for Web Applications with Fortify Defender for .NET

Fortify Software, has added an extension to its Fortify Defender solution for applications written in the .NET language. This release is helping to meet special requests from .NET-based organisations, such as government agencies trying to protect confidential information, healthcare companies that need to secure private health information, and ecommerce sites trying to address upcoming PCI compliance requirements, the provider of security products said. Fortify Defender offers these types of organisations a highly effective and accurate approach to protecting Web applications from the most common and sophisticated hacking techniques. It is most frequently used when companies either don’t have time to conduct an extensive source code analysis or don’t have access to the source code, the company claimed.

“While we always encourage organisations to conduct a thorough source code analysis, there are times when this isn’t possible,” said Barmak Meftah, Fortify’s vice president of products and services.

In addition to protecting Web applications, Fortify Defender provides detailed attack forensics. Organisations can monitor in real-time how they are getting attacked, who is attacking them and specifically what part of their application is getting attacked, the company stated.

Fortify Software also announced that the 554 Electronic Systems Wing, a unit of the Air Force Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom AFB, Mass., has adopted Fortify Defender to help protect and monitor its applications.