Application Security

Next Defence's Managed Application Delivery and Security service helps to maintain availability of critical business resources and applications. We use best-of-breed technology managed on your behalf to maximise uptime. The service also helps to provide your organisation with improved application efficiency and convenience.

24/7 Security Operations
Web Applications
Mobile Applications
Web Testing
API Testing
Root Cause Analysis
Vulnerability Validation
Internal Controls

Next Defence AppSec Identifies and closes your security gaps before your adversaries do.

The security of web servers, application platforms, and development languages is constantly under threat from adversaries who use those platforms to discover new vulnerabilities and develop increasingly advanced attack techniques. What was secure yesterday may not be secure tomorrow.

Application Security

A secure code review helps identify security flaws early in the development lifecycle. It also helps identify weaknesses that could allow exploitation or abuse of the application.
Threat Modelling

Threat modelling should be performed during the early stages of application development. It helps identify risks, likely adversaries, and potential threats and attack vectors.
DevSecOps Consulting

Next Defence will help your company develop applications that are secure and compliant with industry regulations. You’ll receive expert guidance tailored to suit your organisation’s specific application design and development needs.

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That means you can focus on what you do best: running your business.

Risk Management

Achieve peace of mind by systematically designing and building your applications securely, protecting critical business and customer data, and managing application risks.

Data Protection

By taking steps to ensure your customers' confidential data is protected by investing in security solutions, you will be able to position your company as a serious contender in the marketplace.

Proactive Maintenance

By using proven secure coding practices and methods, organisations can reduce long-term expenditure on application maintenance and vulnerability remediation.

Next Defence Security Fabric

Next Defence's Security Fabric provides a unified and integrated security management utility that enables you to neutralise cyber threats, protect valuable information and safeguard business processes with a single platform.

Penetration Testing

Discovering and addressing vulnerabilities is the foundation of protecting your network and applications. Allow our expert Penetration Testing to guide you in securing your systems

Incident Response

We are the global leader in security breach response. Our incident responders have been on the frontlines of the most complex breaches worldwide, and they

Cyber Security Strategy

We enable business leaders to strategise, improve threat insights and design a plan that resonates with the Board and Executives, and ultimately improves cybersecurity for

Vulnerability Management

Complete Vulnerability Solution When a vulnerability is reported, you don’t have time to set up your own VRM process. Let us do it for you.

Managed Backup

Complete Backup Solution Protect your business with Next Defence. We keep your data safe, even in the event of computer hardware failure, malware or natural

Endpoint Security

Endpoint Security By understanding the risks your business faces, and by investing in the right device level hardware and security systems, you can ensure that

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Application Security?

Application security refers to the steps businesses take to identify and repair software vulnerabilities. This includes the work network administrators and application security engineers do to understand why applications expose vulnerabilities and how to make them safer for the future.

What are Application Security Risks?

Application security challenges vary, from large-scale network disruption to targeted database manipulation. Some examples of application security risks include:

Cross site scripting (XSS) is a type of vulnerability that allows an attacker to inject client-side scripts into webpages. For example, an attacker may exploit XSS on an e-commerce website and embed HTML tags in comments. Comments can then link to files that steal visitor session cookies on another site—allowing them access to anything from credit card numbers on down.
Denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks enable remote attackers to overwhelm a targeted server or the infrastructure that supports it with an excessive amount of legitimate traffic. This illegitimate traffic eventually denies service to real users, shutting down the server.
A SQL injection attack is a technique that attackers use to exploit vulnerabilities in databases. Such an attack can reveal things like usernames and passwords, or allow attackers to manipulate or destroy data, or modify or create user permissions.
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) is a technique hackers use to impersonate authorized users after tricking them into making an authorization request. High-level users are frequent targets for CSRF attacks because once the account is compromised, the attacker can remove, modify, or destroy data.

Why is Application Security important?

Companies must address application security risks that could compromise sensitive data because the damage from breaches is extreme and sometimes permanent. As more companies move their apps and sites online, information security generally will become even more complex, and critical. This means application security technologies will grow ever more crucial to the security of business, the apps that run companies, and their data security.

What are common ways that attackers exploit vulnerabilities?

Broken Access Control
Cryptographic Failures
Injection
Insecure Design
Security Misconfiguration
Vulnerable and Outdated Components
Identification and Authentication Failures
Software and Data Integrity Failures
Security Logging and Monitoring Failures
Server-Side Request Forgery

How can web application vulnerabilities be prevented?

Web application security is a priority for many organisations. Hackers look for vulnerabilities in web applications, which can put your organisation at risk. Securing web applications requires a range of actions that, when coordinated and consistent in their approach, can defend them from many forms of attack. Technologies including Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) help by monitoring traffic between the web application and the user, to block anything that is potentially malicious. Vulnerability scanning solutions can also help by identifying and addressing any issues in the application.

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