Today's Internet-connected environment is providing a powerful digital business platform, enabling corporations to efficiently communicate and trade with their customers and business partners. The applications used for this purpose are more and more complex, usually connected to enterprise databases and, often at the same time, linked-up with the global net. This clearly makes them a crucial exposure point for almost every corporation.

Application security faces two primary challenges. The first one is ensuring that the combination of applications in a system environment is properly integrated and configured in a way that does not expose human life, machine or environment to unnecessary risks. The second is making sure the security required by an application's business objectives is met without undue extension of development time and budget.

The enormous number of published vulnerabilities in past few years shows that effective application security cannot be achieved by last-minute addition of encryption, security protocols or authentication modules. A secure application has security designed into its architecture and every line of application code. Before shipping or deployment, applications should be carefully reviewed for security issues by experts who did not take part in their development. Any subsequent modification or an added feature, however insignificant it may seem to the developer, can significantly affect the application's security architecture.  

And that is why the security competencies should span the whole development lifecycle: from application requirements, to design, architecture, implementation, testing and maintenance. Product security analysis and lifecycle support should involve people dealing with designing the product's architecture, programmers, configuration management and build experts, quality control and assurance experts, documentation writers and managers.

And from the beginning to the end of development process, especially just before you ship your product to your customer or deploy it in your internal system, you need a reliable, independent security application check by knowledgeable and skilled experts. That is where Acros Security could be your fresh pair of eyes.