Thursday, 29 May 2008

New HP Software to Combat Malicious Web Attacks

HP Thursday 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 aims to help organizations discover, fix and prevent security vulnerabilities in their web applications.

HP said it has introduced new features in the software to 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.

HP Application Security Center will now include HP Assessment Management Platform as the foundation of the solution, with HP DevInspect for developers, HP QAInspect for quality assurance teams and HP WebInspect for operations and security experts. This allows customers to successfully find, fix and prevent security vulnerabilities. Enhancements to HP Application Security Center increase efficiency for these teams and help them integrate these security practices into their existing application lifecycle processes.

HP Assessment Management Platform, the foundation of HP Application Security Center, will be offered through HP Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Customers can quickly and cost-effectively centralize all of their web application security assessment programs into a complete solution maintained and managed by HP SaaS.

“Hacker attacks are a critical concern for IT organizations of all sizes. Now customers can get up and running quickly and involve the right teams to minimize this risk,” said Darryl Dickens, Head of Marketing for HP Software, Asia Pacific & Japan.

“HP is helping customers address their biggest application security challenges with new software-as-a-service offerings, product enhancements and research breakthroughs from our security experts.”

HP also provides turnkey web application security assessment and penetration testing services performed by application security experts. These services use the HP SaaS offering to accelerate the assessment of an application’s vulnerabilities and help customers reduce and manage risks associated with web applications that affect their business.

Enhancements to HP Application Security Center are available today. The new services are planned to be available in August.