High-Tech Bridge partners with Fortinet to accelerate DevSecOps and CI/CD for web applications

Joint solution enables seamless vulnerability detection, prioritization and agile virtual patching for web applications, web services and APIs.

Gartner forecasts fast growth in the security testing market due to continued data breaches and growing demands for application security testing as part of DevOps.

To enable simple, cost-effective, agile and reliable application security testing and risk-based remediation, High-Tech Bridge has partnered with Fortinet to deliver a solution tailored for DevSecOps and CI/CD facilitation. The partnership enables organizations to remediate web application vulnerabilities within minutes and at no additional costs, including security flaws affecting REST/SOAP APIs and Single Page Applications.

High-Tech Bridge’s ImmuniWeb® AI Platform leverages Machine Learning and AI for intelligent automation and acceleration of application security testing. Complemented by scalable and cost-effective manual testing, it detects the most sophisticated vulnerabilities and comes with a zero false-positives SLA. ImmuniWeb’s groundbreaking virtual application technology enables its customers to test both internal and external web applications and leverage award-winning IAST technology.

Fortinet’s FortiWeb Web Application Firewall provides advanced features that defend web applications from known and zero-day threats. Using an advanced multi-layered and correlated approach, FortiWeb provides complete security for your external and internal web-based applications from the OWASP Top 10 and many other threats. At the heart of FortiWeb are its dual-layer AI-based detection engines that intelligently detect threats with nearly no false positive detections.

Once ImmuniWeb AI audit results are imported to FortiWeb, then FortiWeb virtual patching automatically creates new WAF rulesets to protect against newly discovered vulnerabilities and weaknesses.

The joint solution eliminates the perilous gap when a newly detected security flaws remain unaddressed and exploitable. It thereby enables web developers to properly test and deploy a security patch without exposing their enterprise to the risk of data breach.

Modern organizations face a continuously growing landscape of security tasks of an increasing sophistication. The challenge is exacerbated by global cybersecurity skills shortage and the large number of different security products required to enable continuous security monitoring, risk-based remediation and cyber resilience,” said Ilia Kolochenko, CEO and Founder of High-Tech Bridge. “At High-Tech Bridge, we are excited to join our efforts with global cybersecurity leader Fortinet to deliver a turnkey application security solution. Our research in AI and Machine Learning technology offers unprecedented accuracy, speed and reliability to our clientele. The joint solution is, however, a mere beginning of our partnership journey aimed to bring sustainable and long-term value to the customers and to the application security market as whole. Please stay tuned.

The Fortinet Security Fabric’s open architecture, APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and ease of integration with complementary technologies from our alliance partners enable highly effective security solutions to address customer needs,” said Neil Prasad, Senior Director of Product Marketing and Global Technology Alliances at Fortinet. “We welcome High-Tech Bridge in our Fortinet technology alliance partner program and ecosystem, and look forward to our collaboration to provide a more secure future for all our customers.

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High-Tech Bridge named Innovator by SC Media Reboot 18

ImmuniWeb® AI is selected in the “Analysis and Testing” category of the most innovative cybersecurity companies of the year.

Every year the SC Media Innovators edition highlights technologies that stand out from the crowd and show great promise for the future and the 2018 list of honorees is no different. The SC Labs Review Team is proud to present the 18 vendors being honored, as well as, the six members of much-anticipated class of 2018 Hall of Fame inductees.

For the three consecutive years, High-Tech Bridge’s ImmuniWeb® AI is named for the globally recognized SC Media Innovators award, based on meticulous review and selection process.

Rob Cote, program director at SC Lab highlighted practical usage of AI and Machine Learning capacities for most comprehensive application security vulnerability coverage and a zero false-positives SLA for every customer. Ilia Kolochenko, High-Tech Bridge’ CEO and Founder, says:

We are delighted and honored to be selected for this prestigious award. SC Media is one of the oldest and the most respected brands in the industry, and this award means a lot for us. It is a great validation of our efforts and commitment to continuously innovate and deliver excellence to our customers. We have many more exciting announcements for 2019, please stay tuned.

Full SC Media Innovators e-Book is available here.

Source: High-Tech Bridge

European Union diplomatic communications ‘targeted by hackers’

Hackers successfully targeted the European Union’s diplomatic communications over a period of several years, The New York Times reports. Thousands of messages were intercepted in which diplomats referenced a range of subjects from US President Donald Trump to global trade. The breach was reportedly discovered by the cyber-security company Area 1.

European officials say that information marked as confidential and secret was not affected by the three-year hack. One expert told the New York Times that the methods used by the hackers were similar to those previously used by the Chinese military.

“After over a decade of experience countering Chinese cyber-operations… there is no doubt this campaign is connected to the Chinese government,” he said. The intercepted messages, known as diplomatic cables, reveal one exchange in which diplomats describe July’s meeting between Mr Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as “successful (at least for Putin)”.

Another message gives details of a private meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and European officials that took place earlier this year. It quotes Mr Xi as saying China “would not submit to bullying” from Washington “even if a trade war hurt everybody”.

These comments echo a speech he gave on Tuesday in which he said “no-one is in a position to dictate to the Chinese people what should or should not be done”. A number of other institutions, including the United Nations, were also reportedly affected by the breach and have since been alerted.

Source : newsfirst.lk

IDC names High-Tech Bridge a Mobile App Security Testing Innovator

Pioneering Machine Learning and AI vulnerability detection technology combined with a zero false-positive SLA of ImmuniWeb® MobileSuite are recognized by IDC.

High-Tech Bridge is delighted to be selected as an IDC Innovator on the emerging Mobile Application Security Testing (MAST) market in a recent research “IDC Innovators: Mobile App Security Testing, 2018”.

IDC Innovators are vendors “that have demonstrated either a groundbreaking business model or an innovative new technology — or both”.

Organizations are pressed for time, resources, and money but simply cannot cut corners when it comes to mobile app testing,” says Denise Lund, research director, Enterprise Mobility at IDC. “Vendors will go far with buyers if they have proven that their use of machine intelligence reduces false positives in the identification of mobile app vulnerabilities or discovers unusual vulnerabilities before these wreak havoc on employees, businesses, and brands in the market.

High-Tech Bridge’s ImmuniWeb® AI Platform offers ImmuniWeb MobileSuite to test iOS and Android mobile applications and their backend for security, privacy and compliance issues. Our award-winning dynamic (DAST), static (SAST) and interactive (IAST) mobile application security testing technology leverages Machine Learning and AI for acceleration and intelligent automation of vulnerability detection. While scalable and cost-effective manual enhancement of testing process ensures detection of the most sophisticated vulnerabilities and offers a zero false-positives SLA to every customer.

We are delighted to see such a solid validation of our research and innovation on the application security market by one of the most reputable research companies” says Ilia Kolochenko, High-Tech Bridge’s CEO and Founder. “At High-Tech Bridge, we are committed to innovate and deliver value to our customers by solving real problems they have in a cost-effective manner. We believe that effective application security should be simple, holistic and risk-based. ImmuniWeb MobileSuite embodies all of these principles.

IDC is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. With more than 1,100 analysts worldwide, IDC offers global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends in over 110 countries.

Source: High-Tech Bridge