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Watchfire provides software and services to help ensure the security and compliance of websites. More more than 500 enterprises and government agencies, including AXA Financial, SunTrust, HSBC, Vodafone, Veterans Affairs and Dell rely on Watchfire to audit and report on issues impacting their online business. Watchfire has been the recipient of several industry honors including the HP/IAPP Privacy Innovation Award, InfoSecurity Product Guide’s Hot Security Company 2006, Computerworld’s Innovative Technology Award, and “Recommended” rating by Computer Reseller News. Watchfire was named by IDC and Gartner as the worldwide market-share leader in web application vulnerability assessment software. Watchfire's technology partners include IBM Global Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers, TRUSTe, Microsoft, Interwoven, EMC Documentum and Mercury.

Watchfire® AppScan®

Watchfire® AppScan® the worldwide market-share leading web application security assessment software, offers a solution for all types of users - application developers to help them build secure web applications; quality assurance teams to provide security assurance testing before deployment; and security auditors and senior management to continually monitor the “live” environment.  PRODUCT FACTSHEET

The AppScan product suite consists of:

  • AppScan for Auditors: used to conduct on-going security audits to validate web application security and compliance against regulatory and organizational initiatives in the live environment
  • AppScan for Mercury Quality Center™: enables security testing from within a familiar QA environment, reducing errors and improves efficiency
  • AppScan DE (Developer Edition): integrated with several major development environments, such as JBuilder, Websphere, MS Visual Studio.Net and Eclipse, AppScan DE lets users test web applications early in the development process and from within their development environment
For Auditors:

Watchfire® AppScan®

Watchfire® AppScan® is the industry's first and leading web application security testing suite, and the only one to provide comprehensive remediation tasks at every level of the application. AppScan analyzes web applications, tests for security issues and generates actionable reports and remediation recommendations. AppScan's scanning capabilities, Zero-Day vulnerability updates, Configuration Wizard and detailed reporting system all combine to simplify ease of use for auditors and security professionals, enhance their productivity, facilitate security compliance and protect the web application infrastructure.

Benefits:

  • Remediation View: shows a comprehensive list of tasks needed to fix the security issues found by the scan
  • Real-time View of Results: shows the Application Tree and Results List during the scan so users can track scan progress and promptly take action on important issues
  • Customizable Reports: customizable reports for management, developers, QA engineers and security professionals, providing users full control of content and layout
  • Industry-standards Support: including the OWASP Top 10, SANS Top 20 and the WASC standards
  • Regulatory Compliance Reporting: generates 31 regulatory compliance templates and reports
For Application Developers

AppScan DE

AppScan DE integrates web application security testing into several major development environments, such as JBuilder, Websphere, MS Visual Studio.Net and Eclipse. This enables application developers to unit test web applications early in the development process. AppScan DE automates precision security unit testing, delivers comprehensive defect analysis and offers environment-specific recommendations for fixing security flaws.

Benefits:

  • Build security testing into development to find vulnerabilities early in the process
  • Intelligent fix recommendations improve productivity
  • Designed so unit testing of web applications can be performed quickly and easily within major development environments (JBuilder, Websphere, Eclipse)
For QA teams

AppScan for Mercury Quality Center

AppScan for Mercury Quality Center™ helps Quality Assurance teams centralize test creation and results viewing to facilitate a consistent and repeatable testing process which reduces errors and improves efficiency. AppScan for Mercury Quality Center enables all aspects of web application testing – functional, load and security – to be managed and run directly from the Quality Center environment. This comprehensive solution provides you with a lower total cost of operation, reduced business risk and on-time delivery of secure applications for a significant return on your technology investment.

Benefits:

  • Provides QA teams a single console and environment for managing all security and quality tests of web applications
  • Delivers real-time training on secure testing and coding techniques
  • Automates security testing and execution as part of the normal QA run

Watchfire can be found on the web at www.watchfire.com

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