Gartner Research

Hype Cycle for Application Security, 2016

Published: 13 July 2016

ID: G00289756

Analyst(s): Ayal Tirosh

Summary

Applications, not the infrastructure, represent the main attack vector for data exfiltration. As organizations lose more control over their infrastructure with trends like mobility and cloud, applications become one of the last control points for imposing the organization's security policy.

Table Of Contents

Analysis

  • What You Need to Know
  • The Hype Cycle
  • The Priority Matrix
  • Off the Hype Cycle
  • On the Rise
    • Application Vulnerability Correlation
    • User and Entity Behavior Analytics
    • Crowdsourced Security Testing Platforms
    • Mediated APIs
  • At the Peak
    • Format Preserving Encryption
    • Mobile Threat Defense
    • Runtime Application Self-Protection
    • Mobile Application Hardening
  • Sliding Into the Trough
    • Protected Mobile Browsers
    • Enterprise Mobile App Stores
    • DevSecOps
    • Application Shielding
    • Dynamic Data Masking
    • Cloud Access Security Brokers
    • Interactive Application Security Testing
    • Mobile Application Security Testing
  • Climbing the Slope
    • SOA Testing
    • Software Composition Analysis
    • Application Security Professional Services
    • Database Audit and Protection
    • Tokenization
    • Application Security as a Service
    • Web Application Firewalls
    • Application Control
    • Application Obfuscation
    • Static Data Masking
  • Entering the Plateau
    • Static Application Security Testing
    • Fraud Detection
    • SIEM
    • Dynamic Application Security Testing
    • Mobile Data Protection for Workstations
  • Appendixes
    • Hype Cycle Phases, Benefit Ratings and Maturity Levels

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