APPLICATION SECURITY (WAF)

Maximize efficiencies, minimize threats

Securing your applications and hardening them is a long-term commitment. In the face of unprecedented vulnerability and increasing attack surfaces, achieving compliance is not nearly enough. Improving your breach prevention posture requires sustained investment and multiple defenses. TachTech can help.


We take a structured approach to help optimize your investments and bring greater levels of security and efficiency to this mission-critical area of your business. That starts with people, then process, then technology, and it means adapting the lifecycle that envelopes your application development and operations to ensure that security is prioritized throughout.

Our TechTech professionals are multi-disciplinary experts—fluent in network and systems engineering, security, application management, and regulatory compliance. They will deploy the right tools for your needs and follow our proprietary methodology practices to close the gaps in your application security, then run reports to measure the results and make sure your application security achieves maximum efficiency.

Application security gap assessment  

  • Examine the current security status of your applications, including database activity monitoring and code reviews.

  • Set priorities for remediation based on each target’s value to the business.

  • Analyze automated security scan results and peer-review recommendations.

  • Build a plan to identify existing gaps and prevent new ones, using industry best practices.


Web application firewall (WAF) deployment and management

  • Analyze the vulnerabilities in legacy code for existing WAFs and examine the application priorities for organizations without WAFs.

  • Deploy a managed web application firewall to mitigate security gaps and meet compliance requirements.

  • Establish baselines for transaction activity, then activate runtime protection to balance accessibility, security, and productivity.

  • Manage the WAF to accommodate application changes, monitor breach attempts, run reports, and refine settings, as needed.

App development best practices

  • Partner with the customer’s team to ensure adoption of agile security principles, 

  • Move security enforcement earlier in the development cycle—shift left—rather than tacking on security functionality as an afterthought.

  • Provide security-focused training to help create a vision and culture of security among developers, IT, and throughout the organization.

  • Model threats by ranking and prioritizing vulnerabilities and potential application security gaps.


 

Application threat modeling 

  • Deploy an industry-trusted threat modeling platform to automate the modeling and monitoring of avoidable risks to your applications during development, integration, and deployment.

  • Save time, cost, and development work down the line.

  • Generate a comprehensive threat model for your application and supporting infrastructure to find flaws and fixes in minutes.

  • Set triggers or filters whenever you set up a network, provision a server, or write code.

  • Inform security decision-making for maximum ROI and compliance.

  • Create a checklist for security and development teams to close vulnerabilities and automate risk verification tasks as possible.


The Verizon 2020 Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) reports that 43% of breaches could be traced back to attacks against web applications—more than double the results from last year.

  • The vast majority (86%) of data breaches were motivated by the prospect of illicit financial gain, up significantly from 71 % in 2019.

  • And Attack data from NTT’s 2020 Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR) shows that more than half (55%) of all attacks in 2019 were a combination of web application and application-specific attacks, up from 32% the year before.

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