Application Security

Alphawest offers professional Application Security services and solutions to help organisations better protect against the ever increasing variety of targeted application attacks, such as forceful browsing, cross-site scripting, cookie poisoning and http request smuggling, that threaten organisations today.

Alphawest’s application security solutions and services help organisations to combat attacks that traditional firewalls cannot handle (such as application layer traffic inspection, and counterfeit activity; and attack against unique session based vulnerabilities).

Benefits:

  • Reduces costs related to maintaining security flaws that occur in web application code.
  • Better return on investment justification through reduced costs associated with security enforcement and response to attack.
  • Assists with ensuring regulatory compliance.
  • Helps address customer privacy concerns such as secure transactions.
  • Helps organisations manage concerns about:
    • Zero day unknown attacks Limitations in network firewalls ability to combat application based attacks
    • Compliance (eg: online payments)
    • Performance degradation from external attacks (eg: denial of service (DoS)
    • Poorly written in-house applications/other applications
    • Inherent weaknesses found in web-based applications (eg: Extranet & Intranet)
    • Protecting browsers from hackers Limitations of firewalls and other perimeter defenses.

Features:

  • Enables transaction validation.
  • Enables cloaking, and reverse proxying to prevent hackers from finding the network.
  • Application firewalling to identify, isolate and block attacks for:
    • Illegal access of website server files
    • Known and unknown Web Worms
    • Known and unknown Web Vulnerabilities
    • Hidden-Field manipulation
    • Forceful browsing
    • File/directory enumerations
    • Buffer overflows and cross-site scripting attacks SQL/OS injections and cookie poisoning
    • Parameter tampering
  • Enables organisations to allow legitimate traffic through while denying malicious application activity, such as application floods, network attacks and floods; and unknown services.
  • Enables security policy enforcement of applications.
  • Enables automatic remediation of pattern-less exploits in real-time.
  • Provides server protection through valid response checking.
  • Protection from both known and unknown HTTP and HTTPS classed threats, increasing protection against zero day attacks.