5 Ways To Strengthen Your Clients’ Application Security

Many organizations have adopted multi-cloud environments. Fortinet's Cloud Security Solutions can help deliver consistent security and centralized visibility and management everywhere their applications live. 

  • December 5, 2023 | Author: Allison Bergamo
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For many of your clients, web applications have become essential to workforce operations and digital acceleration. However, they are also challenged to secure these applications for a variety of reasons including:

  • Modern applications are often located across data centers and multiple cloud environments, which results in an expanded attack surface.
  • Complex applications such as microservices and API ecosystems can complicate data flows.
  • Evolving threats and sophisticated bots, combined with a lack of skilled security experts make it difficult to monitor, identify and remediate them.

While securing web applications can seem overwhelming to your clients, you can help them strengthen their security by implementing the following best practices.

  • Conduct regular vulnerability assessments including automated and manual testing to identify and remediate weaknesses in web applications.
  • Stay up to date with security patches. This is critical in preventing known vulnerabilities from being exploited.
  • Train your clients’ development and operations teams in secure coding practices to help reduce the introduction of vulnerabilities during the development process.
  • Focus on API security, including authentication, authorization and rate limiting.
  • Develop and regularly test your clients’ incident response plans.

Recent research from Cybersecurity Insiders found that 76 percent of organizations are using two or more clouds for integration of multiple services, scalability or business continuity reasons. Additionally, 78 percent of cybersecurity professionals want a single cloud security platform for consistent security policy across all cloud environments. Fortinet Cloud Security Solutions can help deliver consistent security and centralized visibility and management, everywhere your applications live. It also provides security automation across all cloud environments so that your clients can securely build, deploy and run applications. 

Fortinet’s cloud security solutions also enable secure connectivity and advanced threat protection through tight integration with all major cloud providers including AWS, Microsoft, Google, SAP and Oracle.

Explore how Fortinet Cloud Security Solutions empowers organizations to securely deploy on any cloud or virtual data center with consistent policies, centralized management and visibility, and security automation and orchestration.

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