HP offers new application security software

On Wednesday HP, the world’s largest technology company, producing spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure, unveiled its application security software. The new security solutions were created in order to help companies to reduce outlays; it was also designed to protect firms from hackers’ malicious web attacks.

As principal analyst of Security and Risk Management, Forrester Research Inc., Chenxi Wang said, the cost of application security breaches can be essential, especially those that result in data being compromised. Forrester estimates that cost per record for a security breach is approximately $305 for companies in a highly regulated industry. This cost can be much higher for companies that have hundreds of thousands or millions of data records.

The new Application Security Solutions include:

• HP Assessment Management Platform 8.0 helps customers reduce costs and moderate application risk with the help of a distributed, scalable web application security testing platform.

• HP WebInspect 8.0 helps customers thoroughly analyze complex web applications by delivering fast, accurate security testing and remediation features for web applications, including those built on emerging Web 2.0 technologies.

• HP Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Project Services for Application Security Center help customers implement their application security initiatives rapidly and cost-effectively with an entire solution maintained and managed by HP.

The new offerings are the part of HP Application Security Center, a suite of software and services that helps companies ensure the security of their web applications by helping them discover, fix and prevent vulnerabilities.

The new HP solutions will enable IT executives to prioritize security issues by identifying the assets and data relative to their business. In the other words, organizations can focus their limited security resources on issues that have the greatest business influence for them. For example, a company can prioritize security efforts for applications associated with credit card transactions and bring them into compliance with security guidelines from the Payment Card Industry (PCI).