The most common approach to securing a web application involves doing a single security test, usually a Web Application Security Assessment, when a development project is completed. While this is still a requirement, this paper discusses why security needs to be incorporated earlier and throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC). 

Criminals focus on exploiting web application vulnerabilities in order to plant malware and thus infect clients who visit websites. Read this report to learn more about the drivers behind web hacking, the vulnerabilities hackers exploit, and the types of organizations attacked most often. 

Download Rational® AppScan® Standard Edition V7.9, previously known as Watchfire AppScan, a leading Web application security testing tool that automates vulnerability assessments and scans and tests for all common Web application vulnerabilities including SQL-injection, cross-site scripting, and buffer overflow. 

This paper, designed for security and compliance professionals, illustrates how to achieve compliance on three of the most costly and complex sections: requirements 3, 6, and 10 of PCI DSS. This paper also highlights how Web application and database appliances can deliver resource effective compliance while maintaining cost efficiency. 

This white paper outlines considerations and recommendations for reducing business risk by ensuring that your web applications are secure. 

This IBM white paper outlines the risks surrounding Web applications and reviews four layers of security needed in a strategy for end-to end Web protection. 

HP QAInspect delivers automated security information that QA professionals and software testers can access at any point in the application development process to identify and remediate potential security defects. 

According to recent research conducted by IBM® ISS X-Force®, more than half of all disclosed vulnerabilities in 2008 were Web application flaws. Learn how IBM Web application security solutions can help you reduce costs, manage risk and improve service. Listen to the podcast. 

Listen to IBM Internet Security Systems' take on network security convergence. You will learn how to get more out of your existing investments in network security, combat new Web 2.0, Web application and database threats without purchasing stand alone technologies, and how to protect your company from worms to botnets to preventing data leaks. 

This white paper examines how IBM Tivoli Unified Single Sign-On addresses the needs of organizations for enterprise single sign-on, Web single sign-on, and federated single sign-on. 

In today’s technology rich environment organizations are finding employees often post sensitive company information to insecure or public Internet sites using Web 2.0 applications. Code Green Networks TrueDLP provides organizations with a complete data loss prevention solution to stop the loss or theft of confidential or proprietary information. 

Read this case study to learn how BT selected Blue Coat ProxySG for its flexibility in combining user and application visibility, with extremely granular levels of security and control, to enforce rules that allowed undisruptive use of recreational applications and safe access to sites previously considered off-limits, such as MySpace. 

Building security into the software development lifecycle takes more than just a plan. You need the support of both the development and security/audit organizations to make it work. This podcast, featuring Diana Kelley, presents a plan for selling the value of security to all of the constituencies who matter in your organization.