This IDC white paper highlights the growing IT challenge of protecting web applications through software improvements and testing. It explains problems associated with web application insecurity, driving factors encouraging improved web application security, and the means to validate application security.

Developers and security have traditionally been like oil and water. Developers need to meet deadlines and enable new lines of business while security professionals face the state of coding flaws and undiscovered vulnerabilities. Both groups know they should be working together, but it is still the exception rather than the norm.