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Web applications are the single greatest target for attackers. However, monitoring threat vectors constantly across a large number of web applications to identify vulnerabilities is cumbersome and fixing them is time-consuming. Cenzic's application vulnerability scanning goes beyond signature detection to a behavioral model, identifying weaknesses quickly by emulating attacker activity.
The integration ensures that vulnerabilities can be identified and immediately addressed with BIG-IP ASM, thus providing the ability to patch vulnerabilities with a single click, resulting in real-time remediation without impacting application uptime or performance.
BIG-IP ASM protects mission critical applications with an agile, certified web application firewall and comprehensive, policy-based web application security. It offers threat assessment and mitigation, visibility and flexibility to help organizations secure applications.
One of the most scalable application security solutions on the market, BIG-IP ASM protects data center applications while boosting performance with application optimization and acceleration technologies such as fast caching, compression, SSL offload and TCP optimization.
Powered by Cenzic Hailstorm, Cenzic Enterprise is a software solution that assesses the security of cloud and web applications and supports security risk management throughout the software development lifecycle.
Cenzic Enterprise provides a company-wide view of security vulnerabilities and statuses to executives as well as customized views to other users from a web-based dashboard. It enables organizations of all sizes to continuously assess cloud, mobile and web applications to reduce online security risk from hacker attacks.


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IT security jobs: What's in demand and how to meet it
Posted on 15 May 2013. | Let's say you want a career in information security, where do you start? What credentials do you need? What are employers looking for? Read on to find some answers.

Is Microsoft is reading your Skype communications?
Posted on 15 May 2013. | The question of whether Skype allows U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies to access the communications exchanged by its users has still not been adequately answered by Microsoft.

Internet Explorer best at blocking malware
Posted on 14 May 2013. | While Chrome’s malware download protection improved significantly, Internet Explorer 10 continues to outperform the other browsers with a block rate of 99.96%.

Researcher refuses to help Saudi telco to spy on people
Posted on 14 May 2013. | You would think that a Saudi Arabian telecom firm interested in monitoring its users' mobile communications would not be asking a well-known pro-privacy researcher for help, but you would be wrong.

Malicious browser extensions are hijacking Facebook accounts
Posted on 13 May 2013. | Facebook users - especially those in Brazil - are being targeted with malicious browser extensions trying to hijack Facebook profiles, warns Microsoft.
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