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IBM Application Security Insider
The IBM Application Security Insider is a blog devoted to dissecting today’s latest industry trends, observations and evolving threats in the growing web application security industry. The IBM AppScan portfolio provides web application security and compl
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Building Rich Internet Applications Models: Example of a Better Strategy

Crawling “classical” web applications is a problem that has been addressed more than a decode ago. Efficient crawling of web applications that use advanced technologies such as AJAX (called Rich Internet Applications, ...
AppScan Enterprise v8.7 performance improvements

AppScan Enterprise v8.7 performance improvements

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In March 2013, we released version 8.7 of AppScan. One of the focus areas for that release was to improve the scalability and performance of the enterprise components of the solution, specifically ...
2012 Innovation Impact: Model-based Crawling of Complex RIAs and Mobile Applications

Research Awards for Project on Crawling Mobile and Rich Internet Applications

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2012 IBM CAS Project of the Year: Efficient and Scalable Mapping of Mobile and Complex Rich Internet Applications for Automated Security Testing The ability to “crawl” Web sites and Web applications is ...
Have you scanned your mobile site for vulnerabilities yet?

Have you scanned your mobile site for vulnerabilities yet?

Mobile sites - Resurrecting security risks In today's world any self respecting web site must provide access to its services through a desktop browser as well as a mobile device. This basically ...

Top 5 Innovations Transforming Security Scanners

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Like the web itself, security scanners are advancing at a fast pace. Here are the top 5 technologies that leading security professionals are applying to stay ahead of the curve: 5. XSS ...
String Analysis in AppScan/JSA

String Analysis in AppScan/JSA

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Let's see how String Analysis is used to improve the accuracy of JSA. Consider the following real-world example: var str = document.URL; var url_check = str.indexOf('login.html'); if (url_check > -1) { result ...
What is String Analysis? A look at one of AppScan's breakthrough technologies

What is String Analysis? A look at one of AppScan’s breakthrough technologies

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The best technologies are often the ones that you, as a user, never have to worry about. They work automatically, behind the scenes, making a product or service work better. With nothing ...