Recent figures from industry analysts identify that 75% of all emerging information-security-related vulnerabilities are within applications.  Our security experts can provide a range of Application Security Services to mimimise these risks within your business applications.

In many cases organisations are now adopting a defence-in-depth strategy to provide effective application security.  This often includes deploying highly secure appliances at the perimeter to provide the initial control point to the application, that includes as a minimum, protection against the most common application security threats.

When a security vulnerability is discovered in an organisation's existing application, they may be faced with the dilemma of whether or not to take the application off-line until it can be patched.  Application security gateways can provide protection by controlling the traffic that reaches the application or, if not in place, they can be deployed to provide specific on-going protection to the application until patches can be rolled out.

Sopra Group delivers Application Security gateway solutions that can prevent direct access to offending insecure code and provide a defence-in-depth capability at the application layer.  These Application Security Gateways provide a less-complex and more cost-effective way to secure and deliver applications.  Offering a single interface to monitor and manage the complete delivery and security process, they can be used to:

• Increase web application availability
• Increase web application security
• Increase web application performance
• Simplify on-going application and infrastructure management.
  

The security of an application is not only reliant on the quality of secure code, but also on the security of the underlying application delivery infrastructure.  This includes:

• Intelligent load-balancing and denial-of-service protection
• Server and operating system security 
• Network security
• Application layer security
• Application acceleration
• Database security
• Remote-access security
• Device security
• Client security.    

We help our clients design, implement, monitor and support complex security architectures for the delivery of major business applications.

Identity Management solutions provide a vital building block in delivering trust to clients/citizens/users of an application.  They both protect the applications from their users and protect the applications and their users.

Sopra Group has not only delivered a wide range of identity management technology and integration solutions, but also has the skills to help our clients deal with the business process change requirements.

Sopra Group has a track record of implementing a range of Identity and Access Management solutions which include core directory technologies, authentication tools (tokens, smartcards, biometrics), password management solutions, enterprise single sign-on, provisioning  solutions and administration/management tools.