Commercial applications are in the spotlight. The shift to remote work has led to an increase in piracy and data leakage. Experts insist on how to defend against new and old threats and how to manage application vulnerabilities.
Always use firewalls, intrusion detection tools, antivirus, etc., to ensure application security, but why is that not enough today?
As organizations embrace the cloud to increase their agility and profitability, today’s business applications have become more dynamic and complex, according to ITworld. Traditional control and monitoring tools no longer allow the IT team to interact effectively, meaning experts can only guess what is happening outside of the scope of the application.
As business applications become the backbone of digital business and are at the forefront of the customer experience, this threat to data security is greater than ever.
Furthermore, the consequences of a potential threat can be more global than the consequences at first sight. According to recent research, customer identification information (PII) or organization IP addresses are widely available within the first 24 hours after the vulnerability occurs.
If only traditional business applications with deficiencies are used, it is not easy to set up active monitoring
It is precise because of cybercriminals’ attention to modern business applications that traditional information security methods are ineffective. For example, if only traditional business applications with deficiencies are used, it is not easy to set up active monitoring.
One of them is that the speed of the application is reduced due to static scanning, and this only provides visibility at certain times. In other words, this method increases overhead costs and reduces productivity and quality of customer service.
According to statistics, on average, IT teams need up to 280 days to detect and locate vulnerabilities that lead to data leaks; for the company, this is a great risk of lost profits and damage to reputation. Additionally, classic tools cannot provide contextual information on the impact of the threat across applications and the enterprise.