art of defence is the only company in Europe to offer security products for Web applications over the entire application life cycle. Leading banks, financial service providers and e-commerce businesses rely on art of defence to protect their internal and external Web applications, thus ensuring compliance with statutory requirements and industry standards such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI Compliance).

art of defence offers what is currently the most comprehensive range of products for Web application security: the Web source code analyzer hypersource identifies the precise location of vulnerabilities in the Web source code by means of automated static analysis. The Web vulnerability scan server hyperscan penetrates Web applications from the outside to identify any security flaws. The enterprise Web application firewall (WAF) hyperguard protects Web applications in use - from straight monitoring for Web application attack detection over a range of intermediate stages through to complete sealing.

The automated interaction of the individual products provides an integrated security solution both for Web applications developed in-house or by outside parties: the WAF can automatically import vulnerabilities identified both by the source code analyzer and by the vulnerability scan server and generates suggestions for appropriate rulesets. Also by import, the vulnerability scanner is able to conduct an external check of vulnerabilities identified by the source code analyzer. Once vulnerabilities are identified, this integrated approach delivers "virtual patches" for them as quickly as possible - without any change to the application itself and without any interruption of existing maintenance cycles.