”Now is the time for security at the application level”

Theresa Lanowitz, Gartner, Dec 2005
 

Today, 95% of organizations still consider network and host-oriented security as their primary means of preventing attacks from reaching corporate applications and accessing sensitive data. Yet despite the significant investment made in recent years, the threats keep changing, the hackers keep adapting, and the attacks keep coming.

Complicating matters, a recent report stated that over 70% of unwanted disclosure of proprietary information that involve financial loss are made from within, either maliciously or unintended, by employees or trusted contractors.

With threats emerging from within, and gaps in perimeter- or host-based approaches leaving applications and data at risk of compromise, it is not surprising that many IT decision makers are finding existing tactics are no longer sufficient. As a result, new approaches are emerging that elevate security protection directly to the application layer and strengthen the protection for applications and data.

Validian Corporation is a world leader in the development of innovative, application-layer security software. We recognize that securing your digital assets, electronic records, or intellectual property begins directly within the applications that create, manipulate, transfer, and store your organization’s sensitive information. To accommodate the varying needs of customers, Validian provides its technology as either developer products or turnkey solutions

The Validian technology (ASI Secure Core and ASI Secure Components) allow application owners or their solution partners to quickly introduce security directly into their application. By leveraging a feature-rich, pre-tested security framework application developers can accelerate the securitization of an application, minimize their maintenance workload, and guarantee a successful security implementation.

The Validian solutions (BMS, SSR) utilize the security capabilities of the underlying security core and/or components and allow end-user organizations to quickly deploy pre-packaged applications that protect communications and sensitive information transfer among executives, investors, regulatory agencies, employees, partners, and customers.

Validian’s developer products and turnkey solutions enable your organization to embed and exploit application security within your applications and to pursue a new approach to securing high-value content and mission-critical data. The result: simplified compliance to regulatory requirements, greatly improved protection against internal and external threats, and dramatic reduction in associated financial loss and litigation risk.