Business applications are primary targets for hackers and malicious attackers who realise the value that data can fetch in an internet marketplace that is increasingly backed by a growing organised crime involvement.

The web-enabling of business-critical applications and services, such as sales, customer support, and purchasing, has enabled organisations to reduce costs, improve productivity, and enhance their relationships with customers, suppliers and partners.  However, it has also made the same organisations increasingly vulnerable to application-level attacks.

In the last few years malicious attacks have taken advantage of security holes in internet and intranet-facing applications of prominent online retailers, commercial, financial and government organisations, often resulting in the theft of personal information, service disruption and brand damage. 

These security incidents echo the increasing number of security vulnerabilities in web applications and the ease and speed with which they can be exploited.

Sopra Group has a range of security services aimed at helping organisations secure their key applications, both in development and in-service.  These services can help your business understand the risks to your applications, implement appropriate levels of controls and measure the effectiveness of your application security.

• Application Security Consultancy
• Application Security Solutions
• Application Security Assurance
  

Organisations need to have confidence that their business-critical applications are 'fit for purpose'.  This means that these applications must be capable of meeting their specific functionality, performance, availability and security requirements.  Sopra Group offers innovative integrated Quality Assurance/Security testing services throughout the Software Development Lifecycle that can help our clients realise the full cost-benefit of their IT investments.

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Do Your Testing Processes Make The Grade?

In today's fast moving environment, efficient delivery of new products and services is essential to remaining competitive.  By applying appropriate testing initiatives, businesses can ensure that new systems meet expectations from day one.  To get an instant picture of how your testing processes compare to others in your industry, fill in our benchmarking study.

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Read more about these critically important subjects and understand better what effective actions you can take by downloading our resources listed below.

Application Security White Paper

Find out how application security vulnerabilities have emerged and why traditional security architectures do not protect your organisation against the majority of these security threats.  More importantly, this paper presents pragmatic risk mitigation strategies and basic advice that all organisations with applications either in development or live in-service should strongly consider.

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Software Assurance White Paper

This paper sets out why security must be an integral part of any software development project and shows how an integrated approach to testing that encompasses both Quality Assurance and Security can aid more efficient application delivery.

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