What is application security?

Consideration of numerous key factors leads to success

The future is digital: hardly any company can do without a powerful IT infrastructure and the provision of high-performance applications. However, simply providing powerful components is no longer enough. Application security in particular is a challenge that companies must face.
Application security refers to the measures taken to protect web applications from threats such as data leaks, unauthorized access and other security risks. This includes securing application code, encrypting data transmissions, implementing access controls and regularly checking for security vulnerabilities.

Ensuring application security can be a challenge for companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises. They often lack the financial and human resources to implement and maintain a comprehensive security strategy. This leaves companies vulnerable to security breaches and data loss, which can result not only in financial losses but also reputational damage.

To overcome these challenges, solutions such as the Airlock Secure Access Hub offer an effective way to ensure application security. This solution offers a variety of security features, including a web application firewall (WAF), access control, authentication and authorization, as well as protection against DDoS attacks and other threats.

By implementing Airlock solutions, organizations can not only protect their applications from security threats, but also reduce the costs and resources required to ensure application security. This allows companies to focus on their core competencies without having to compromise on the security of their applications.
Overall, application security is critical for businesses of all sizes and industries, and the right security solutions can help improve security and minimize the risk of security breaches.

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Executive View: KuppingerCole - Airlock Secure Access Hub for applications and APIs

This KuppingerCole Executive View report provides an architectural and functional overview of the Airlock Secure Access Hub, an integrated platform for secure access management - a multicloud-native security tool for web applications, APIs and beyond.

 

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Whitepaper: Security for cloud-native applications

You can read about how companies can ensure the security of web applications and APIs in Kubernetes in the white paper "Security for cloud-native applications", which was created in collaboration between heise and Airlock.

 

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Whitepaper: Zero Trust is a journey

The ongoing digital transformation of the world is progressing and having a profound impact on our personal and professional lives in ways that were difficult to imagine just a few years ago.


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In this white paper, you will learn the most important insights into how you can implement DevSecOps successfully and efficiently, which security components are required for this and the advantages of a microgateway architecture.

 

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Airlock 2FA - Strong authentication. Simple.

Double security - this is what two-factor authentication offers in the field of IT security.


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