Application Security Market Trends for Service Providers: Security Approaches for Business-Critical Applications and Data in Today's Evolving Threat Landscape

The protection of the applications and data that drive business processes and transactions is critical for ensuring business availability, employee productivity, revenue loss avoidance, and brand and corporate reputation protection. As the miscreant economy spreads across all sectors of the economy and threats increase in sophistication and complexity, the protection of missioncritical business assets, applications, data, and processes has become ever more essential. To help service provider security-portfolio managers address these requirements within their customer base, this paper presents an overview of the current trends in the application security market, important drivers and inhibitors of application security, the evolving market landscape, and service provider delivery models for application security solutions.