WALTHAM, Mass. & LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today at Mercury World 2006, Watchfire, the worldwide market-leading provider of web application vulnerability assessment software and services announced integration and support for Mercury Quality Center? 9.0. AppScan? offers solutions for all types of security testing ?outsourced, desktop-user and enterprise-wide analysis. Now, Watchfire?s web application security testing solutions, AppScan, and AppScan? Enterprise both integrate with the most recent version of Mercury TestDirector?, part of Mercury Quality Center?. Watchfire will also exhibit and demonstrate the integrations within the Mercury World 2006 Partner Showcase.
Website security breaches and heightened concerns over more rigid regulatory compliance requirements highlight the increased need for ongoing web vulnerability scanning. Organizations need to find ways to test applications for security issues early in the development process. Integrating AppScan into the QA cycle will help ensure security issues are addressed before the application is deployed, saving costs and reducing risk.
Watchfire?s AppScan Enterprise is the industry?s first web application vulnerability scanning and reporting solution for the enterprise.
Building on the market-leading AppScan technology, AppScan Enterprise provides centralized control with advanced application scanning, remediation capabilities, executive security metrics and dashboards, and key regulatory compliance reporting. The desktop version of AppScan is an automated web application security-testing tool that helps QA and audit personnel test and analyze applications for security defects and to resolve those defects before finding their way onto live websites.
Mercury, the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO) software, provides an alliance program to enable technology and software vendors to develop integrations with Mercury BTO Enterprise products for IT governance, application delivery and application management.
?Adding security testing to the QA process is a critical step to ensuring the delivery of quality web applications to the market. The AppScan integration with Mercury TestDirector and our partnership with Mercury is important to Watchfire?s continued leadership,? said Michael Weider, CTO, Watchfire. ?This integration enables all aspects of web application testing?functional, load and security?to be managed and run directly from the Mercury Quality Center environment, ultimately providing reduced risk and development costs by finding and fixing security defects during QA rather than during or after deployment.?
The integration of both AppScan and AppScan Enterprise with Mercury TestDirector? will allow users?regardless of the organization?s size?to run critical web application security tests directly from the Mercury TestDirector environment. The integration will enable customers to automate testing and modify maintenance processes required to test and remediate critical application security defects, produce detailed security defect advisories and manage all tests (e.g., functional, load, and security) from a single console while storing the results in the Mercury Quality Center server. This integration will provide administration, centralized control and faster deployment critical to easing the manual burden, thereby reducing the cost of fixing security-related defects and helping QA teams to integrate security as a key component of their normal testing process.
The integration provides a number of significant benefits, including:
* QA professionals can configure, run and view security tests from within their familiar Mercury environment.
* Centralized configuration and results viewing facilitates consistent and repetitive testing, which helps to reduce errors and improve efficiency.
* Reduced development costs by helping find and fix security defects during QA rather than during or after deployment.
* More secure application development with real-time training for QA and developers on secure testing and coding techniques.
* Reduces business risk by helping ensure compliance with internal security best practices, external regulations and software quality assurance and management guidelines.
* Easy administration, with centralized control, fast deployment and distributed workload, is scaleable to any size QA team.
Watchfire is conducting product demonstrations highlighting the integrations of AppScan and AppScan Enterprise with Mercury Quality Center at Mercury World in Las Vegas this week at Booth # 221. These demonstrations will highlight how users can easily create security tests for their web application test plans and execute them as part of their normal QA process. For more information on the AppScan and Mercury TestDirector? integration please visit: http://www.watchfire.com/products/appscan/appscan-mqc.aspx |
