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COMPANIES USING HOLISTIC STRATEGY FOR APPLICATION SECURITY REDUCE ODDS OF AN ATTACK BY 12 PERCENT, ACCORDING TO ABERDEEN REPORT
SAN FRANCISCO, California, September 2, 2008 - By applying the right balance of services and technology, companies can decrease application security attacks by 12 percent, according to the Aberdeen Group benchmark report, "Application Security: Protect Sensitive Data while Improving Compliance."
"A well-planned and holistically derived application security process can dramatically reduce a company's IT security exposure, improve compliance activities and streamline operational, financial and strategic processes," said Stephen Walker, senior research associate, Aberdeen.
Identifying "Best-of-Class" companies - 94% of whom use a formal application security development methodology - Aberdeen reached the following conclusions about their performance versus "laggards":
- A year-over-year decrease of 8.6% in network security attacks
- A year-over-year decrease of 7.3% in all application security attacks
"The report confirms what we know first hand - that off-the-shelf solutions fail to meet the threat posed by application vulnerabilities," said Greg Reber, CEO of AsTech Consulting. "It can be a very costly mistake, especially when a large organization is attacked."
Aberdeen found 70 percent of companies consider securing sensitive information a "high priority," while 50% of companies report that current secure coding practices are insufficient to address most application security needs for internal/custom-developed applications. Read the entire report here. http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?spid=30411240&cid=4192
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AsTech Consulting (www.astechconsulting.com) has been providing information security services to Fortune 1000 companies since 1997. We assist clients in the understanding of the security posture of their IT infrastructure and to develop risk management strategies based on this knowledge.
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