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Fortify Software Offers Protection for Vulnerable Web Applications with HIPAA Compliant Fortify Defender for .NET

(March 19 , 2007)--Fortify Software  announced the extension of its Fortify(R) Defender solution for applications written in the .NET language. This release is helping to meet special requests from .NET-based organizations, such as government agencies trying to protect confidential information, healthcare companies that need to secure private health information, and ecommerce sites trying to address upcoming PCI compliance requirements.

Fortify Defender offers these types of organizations a highly effective and accurate approach to protecting Web applications from the most common and sophisticated hacking techniques. It is most frequently used when companies either don't have time to conduct an extensive source code analysis or don't have access to the source code.Fortify Defender addresses key software security compliance requirements, including Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards, OWASP Top Ten and HIPAA .

Fortify Defender's sophisticated technology requires minimal overhead and can be applied to any J2EE or .NET custom Web application, even those where source code is unavailable. It protects against both known and unknown attacks by using multiple detection algorithms, including rule, behavioral and anomaly-based techniques to identify important and potentially harmful security events. Customers can apply Fortify Defender in a short period of time and can rely on it to provide a great deal of protection.

In addition to protecting Web applications, Fortify Defender provides detailed attack forensics. Organizations can monitor in real-time how they are getting attacked, who is attacking them and specifically what part of their application is getting attacked.

Other organizations use Fortify Defender to address upcoming PCI compliance requirements and current best-practice recommendations for an application layer firewall. With the support for .NET, more organizations are able to rely on Fortify Defender to help achieve PCI compliance.

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