{"id":358459,"date":"2020-07-02T10:36:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T08:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=358459"},"modified":"2020-07-02T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:34:00","slug":"why-you-need-to-include-application-security-in-your-development-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/industrynews\/358459-why-you-need-to-include-application-security-in-your-development-process.html","title":{"rendered":"Why you need to include application security in your development process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security is an important consideration when building applications, but many developers leave security until the end of the development process.<\/p>\n<p>This is an inefficient strategy that can be improved upon with a high-quality Application Security (AppSec) solution.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microfocus.com\/en-us\/assets\/security\/magic-quadrant-for-application-security-testing?utm_source=MyBroadband&amp;utm_medium=June_2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Click here to download the Gartner Magic Quadrant report<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>AppSec involves incorporating security into your entire development process to ensure that the development of applications always keeps security in mind.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Shift security left<\/h3>\n<p>An efficient AppSec solution like Fortify from Micro Focus will find and fix application security risks while your code is being written.<\/p>\n<p>This means that the security measures implemented in your app are not an afterthought and will ensure your applications are more secure and easier to scale.<\/p>\n<p>It will also avoid a situation where you run into issues trying to implement security measures retrospectively in an application that isn\u2019t designed with security in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Another major benefit of AppSec solutions like Fortify is that they are incredibly easy to implement into your development process. In fact, you can start a Fortify AppSec initiative within a day.<\/p>\n<p>If you choose Fortify, you will also receive access to a team of experts who will deliver optimisation, review results, and remove false positives to assist in your development journey.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">A variety of products<\/h3>\n<p>Fortify is available as an on-premise, as-a-service, or hybrid cloud solution \u2013 ensuring you will not have to alter your systems to implement an AppSec solution.<\/p>\n<p>Products available from Fortify include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fortify on Demand \u2013 <\/strong>A complete application security as a service (AppSec SaaS) solution that offers SAST, DAST, IAST, RASP, and SCA as well as developer security training under a single product.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fortify Static Code Analyser \u2013 <\/strong>SAST along with Fortify Static Code Analyser identifies vulnerabilities in source code.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fortify WebInspect \u2013 <\/strong>DAST searches for, finds, and prioritises vulnerabilities in web applications.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fortify Application Defender \u2013<\/strong> RASP that protects production applications from attacks and vulnerabilities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fortify Software Security Centre \u2013 <\/strong>Integrates and automates application security testing across the entire application security program \u2013 including SAST, DAST, IAST, RASP, and SCA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Through these options Micro Focus offers users the opportunity to prioritise important security needs, focus on actionable results, integrate security into already-existing toolchains, and support automation and scaling.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Micro Focus &#8211; a leader in AppSec<\/h3>\n<p>Fortify has retained its position as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing for the third successive year \u2013 proof that it is the right choice for your app development projects.<\/p>\n<p>Fortify also scored highest in the 2020 Gartner Critical Capacities for App Security Testing Report in both the Enterprise, and Mobile and Client use cases.<\/p>\n<p>This shows that it is a market-leading AppSec solution for your development process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microfocus.com\/en-us\/assets\/security\/magic-quadrant-for-application-security-testing?utm_source=MyBroadband&amp;utm_medium=June_2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Click here to download the Gartner Magic Quadrant report<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many benefits of AppSec that will result in your development process becoming more efficient and your apps becoming more secure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341030,"featured_media":358505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28937],"tags":[49295],"class_list":["post-358459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industrynews","tag-micro-focus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358507,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358459\/revisions\/358507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}