PRZOOM - /newswire/ - New York, NY, United States, 2008/03/10 - Applicure Technologies announced it has joined ICSA Labs’ Web Application Firewall Product Developers’ Consortium, an industry group that oversees how Web Application Firewalls protect Web servers from attack. TASE: APCR

Applicure Technologies, a leading Web Application Firewall specialist, today announced it has joined ICSA Labs’ Web Application Firewall Product Developers’ Consortium, an industry group that oversees how Web Application Firewalls protect Web servers from attack. ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon Business, is a leading authority on product security.

As the only one of its kind representing Web Application Firewall vendors, the Web Application Firewall Product Developers’ Consortium’s mission is to educate end users about Web application firewall products, increase the adoption of Web Application Firewall technology and create objective and credible security criteria against which Web Application Firewall products can be tested and certified.

Yaacov Sherban, CEO of Applicure Technologies, said: ‘We are delighted to have joined this proactive industry group. We believe the standards created by the consortium will establish a mandatory level of protection against the growing threat of Web application attacks. This is particularly necessary for the enterprise market, the Web hosting sector and e-tailers of all sizes, especially as we near the upcoming PCI Data Security Standard compliance deadline, which mandates Web application security.”

“Our goal is to provide buyers of security products with a credible and objective source for comprehensive information on the security and capabilities of products they are considering,” said George Japak, managing director of ICSA Labs. “ICSA Labs, with the Web Application Firewall Product Developers’ Consortium, is uniquely positioned to be the definitive source for customers seeking information on secure Web Application Firewall products.”

Applicure’s Web application firewall solution: Applicure’s dotDefender is a security software solution for Web applications that provides advanced protection against external and internal hacking. dotDefender provides high-strength protection against SQL injection, cross-site scripting, path traversal and many other application attacks. Free download of Applicure’s attack monitoring tool, dotDefender Monitor, and free 30 trial of dotDefender are available online.

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