BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - August 21, 2008) - In the newly released benchmark report,
"Application Security: Protect Sensitive Data while Improving Compliance,"
Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (
NYSE:
HHS), found that on average,
Best-in-Class organizations were able to realize a 12x greater decrease in
the number of successful application security attacks than Industry Average
companies as a direct result of incorporating the right blend of
technologies and services as a part of their comprehensive application
security strategies.
This report examined and analyzed organizations' planning, deployment, use,
and management of their application security to provide a roadmap for
constructing holistic, business-advancing application security strategies.
As part of their comprehensive application security, Best-in-Class
organizations are 3.5x as likely as Laggards to incorporate real or
near-real time application security monitoring tools. Using tools that
track and report defects throughout the application lifecycle allows
organizations to significantly reduce the costly timeframe existing between
problem identification and problem resolution. In addition, the
Best-in-Class are 62% more likely than Laggards to incorporate their
application security policy into their overarching information security
policy. Leveraging the right solutions allowed the
Best-in-Class to not only improve the security of their applications, but
also to increase application uptime by 13%, and decrease data loss
incidents by 9%.
"To fully capitalize on the business-advancing gains stemming from
effective application security, organizations must be able to identify,
manage, and mitigate security risks both in current, newly developed, and
new versions of existing applications," said Stephen Walker, senior
associate, Aberdeen. "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. By pursuing an application security strategy featuring
the right blend of monitoring and measuring tools, Best-in-Class
organizations were able to align any application security implementations
to corporate business goals, and subsequently increased their compliance
success-rate by over 11%."
The report first identifies how Best-in-Class organizations structure and
govern internal capabilities and technology solutions to maximize the
benefits of application security, then provides a roadmap of actionable
recommendations for companies seeking to either optimize an existing or
begin developing application security that results in a lowered
vulnerability footprint, an increased compliance success-rate, and
streamlined operational, financial, and strategic processes.
A complimentary copy of this report is made available due in part by the
following underwriters: Armorize Technologies and AsTech Consulting. To
obtain a complimentary copy of the report, visit:
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