Security managers worldwide working for midsize or large organizations share a common goal: to better manage the risks associated with their business infrastructure. Web application security plays a significant role in achieving that goal. This session will discuss new and emerging network and application security attacks and ways organizations can protect themselves against Web application and network security threats.
Traditionally, companies have relied on perimeter defenses to keep their networks and data secure. Unfortunately, network firewalls and network vulnerability scanners can’t defend against application-level attacks. Cyber-criminals are leveraging relatively simple application exploits to gain access to sensitive information for fun and profit. It’s more important than ever to implement secure application strategies to effectively protect your business.
Enterprises understand the importance of securing web applications to protect critical corporate and customer data. What many don’t understand, is how to implement a robust process for integrating security and risk management throughout the web application software development lifecycle. Securing the web application lifecycle does not have to mean slowing it down. When delivery is implemented in a collaborative, repeatable, and process-oriented manner, companies can benefit from more efficient development models and more secure applications. Integrating security into these processes from the very beginning can short-circuit expensive and time consuming “gotchas” at the end of the lifecycle.
Whitebox & blackbox application security testing are two approaches for detecting vulnerabilities in Web-based and network applications. Both have strengths and weaknesses, but a combination of the two provides the most comprehensive application security coverage and facilitates the extension of vulnerability assessments across the development lifecycle.
Explore the ways in which IBM Rational can make distributed development a reality in your organization. This one minute flash video and accompanying interactive pdf will introduce you to the concept of a virtual software factory. Check out the interactive pdf for information and links to the solutions behind the factory, including links to some of our newest ROI calculators.
Download a copy of the HP Quality Center Agile Accelerator – a tool designed to help you manage Agile development using HP Quality Center. The HP Quality Center Agile Accelerator comes with:
• Pre-defined Agile process workflows, configurations and rules
• Pre-built Agile user roles and related privileges
Speed of business and growing competition requires IT organizations to deliver mission-critical enterprise applications in-time, with high predictability. To achieve this, QA organizations need to create a reliable testing process that improves application quality, reduces time-to-market and minimizes the cost of development and testing. Availability of the right data during testing is crucial for ensuring high quality of testing. Using a comprehensive Test Data Management strategy, QA organizations are able to provide a consistent and standardized approach to ensuring high quality and reliability of large enterprise applications and systems.
Our guest speaker Greg Sittler will discuss a case study about how Boston Scientific optimizes its production test software development with an integrated process and platform for meeting demands within an integrated application lifecycle management suite.
Many organizations still rely on printed spreadsheets or other paper-based systems for test management which can limit standardization, security, response time, visibility, and scalability. This white paper discusses these challenges in detail and looks at how more robust software testing solutions can provide better quality management.
The software industry is constantly evolving to meet new challenges. Today, organizations are searching for efficient, repeatable ways to produce software - for many, the goal is to create a "software and systems delivery factory". Learn how team collaboration, task automation, and extensive measurement and analysis can benefit your organization in this white paper, which can help you automate many of your software production and creation activities.
With embedded product designs becoming more complex and product lifecycles shrinking, development efficiencies are essential. Fortunately, emergence of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Systems Modeling Language (SysML) standards has provided the opportunity for breakthrough gains in streamlining the development process. These standards enable engineers and software designers to significantly improve their productivity by transitioning from a code-based development process to model-driven development (MDD).
Success in ever more competitive worldwide marketplaces demands continually smarter products and systems, which in turn lead to compounding complexity. Furthermore, while advanced functionality is an important competitive differentiator, quality has become part of the “price of entry” into the marketplace. Quality can no longer be considered an attribute that can be added into systems at the end of the development lifecycle. Controlling risks and costs needs to be a guiding principle that drives virtually all stages of the lifecycle, starting at the concept stage; building during analysis, design, deployment and acceptance; and continuing through service until end-of-life retirement.
Are we on target? Are we within budget? Are my projects contributing effectively to my operational objectives? How well are these operational objectives helping to satisfy our business goals? Can we easily demonstrate compliance to customer requirements or industry standards? Are we ready to ship?
This paper details the challenges and solutions available for organizations wishing to improve their software development process, reduce costs, improve quality and increase reliability of planning. It also presents examples of companies that have successfully implemented strategic QA and, as a result, have become more competitive.
In today's fast-paced, highly competitive world, change is inevitable. Organizations must respond to change to remain competitive and customer-focused. Change is not only driven by forces outside the company, from enhancement requests to bug reports, it is also driven by economic, organizational and regulatory changes. Internal enterprise IT systems also need to meet service level agreements (SLAs), and provide the level of flexibility and adaptability to change that was promised by the implementation of service oriented architectures (SOAs). This white paper addresses five of the foremost change management challenges that CIOs have to meet and how organizations can turn these challenges into a business advantage.
