This e-guide discusses key obstacles to managing application security risk effectively, and describes 5 easy steps you can follow to implement risk-based application security management in your organization.

Read the e-guide to learn about:

  • Creating an inventory of application assets and assessing their business impact
  • Testing applications for vulnerabilities
  • Determining risks and prioritizing vulnerabilities
  • Remediating risks
  • Measuring progress and demonstrating compliance

The guide also summarizes how more effective application security processes can help Security, QA and Development teams to improve collaboration and reduce the threat of potential data breaches. Whether you manage a handful of apps or thousands, this is your how-to guide to mitigate application security risk.

And, to support your application security risk management initiatives, you can test drive our IBM Security AppScan Standard and Application Security Testing on Cloud options free of charge.

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