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Cenzic Virtualizes Security

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The problem with doing application vulnerability testing in a live production environment is just that -- it's a live production environment, and if you break something, it could cause a lot of harm.

Yet there is a real need for live production server testing, since new attack vectors and vulnerabilities emerge on an almost-daily basis. The answer to the problem, according to application vulnerability testing vendor Cenzic, is virtualization. Not surprisingly, it's the cornerstone of Cenzic's new Hailstorm 5.5 software release.

"Application security testing is not like running antivirus," John Weinschenk, president and CEO of Cenzic told InternetNews.com. "If you run antivirus, it warns you that you have a virus and you get rid of it. In application security, when you do attacks against an application, a successful attack could be very harmful to the system itself." "Virtualization gives you the ability to take a copy of the production app and test against it," he said.

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