CIO Research Library

There are many unique challenges and pieces to application security that most devices today are not able to provide. Most enterprises still want to provide application security with just a Web Application Firewall, ignoring the rest of the application security puzzle or leaving those duties to existing security appliances and controls. While technically a viable option, this single-point architecture will start to unravel as security is required for non-HTTP application protocols, such as email, instant messaging, and VoIP. In order to provide a true, robust, and complete application security solution, three critical issues must be addressed. This white people lists and details those issues.