Technology Overview

Read how Cenzic technology is the “Google” of the security industry

What makes Cenzic unique in the market place? How are we able to better protect your Website against hacker attacks than anyone else? Technology.

Cenzic takes a unique approach to solving Web application security risk problems via its technology backbone and strong research team. Built from the ground up from an innovative technology we call and trademarked Stateful Assessment™, Cenzic’s product suite is different than any other Web application security solution.  For more details about our superior technology and research team, read the sections below. You can also subscribe to the Cenzic blog that provides the latest information about Web application security news and technology: http://blog.cenzic.com/

Cenzic Differentiators

• Accuracy. Cenzic yields fewer false positives and finds more “real” vulnerabilities due to its Stateful Assessment^™ Technology. We embed the Mozilla browser directly into the product to best emulate a hacker attack for a non-signature based approach. Benefit: Eliminates the costly process of dealing with false positives, which is one of the biggest cost savings our customers tell us.
• Prioritized Vulnerabilities. Cenzic is the only company that offers a quantitative scoring system (HARM - Hailstorm Application Risk Metric) that associates risk with each Web application. The algorithm has been a part of the product for more than 6 years and is way ahead of industry standards; it’s a much better way than simply rating them as High, Medium or Low. Benefit: Due to the prioritization of vulnerabilities and the higher accuracy of the data, you can remediate the biggest problems first.
• Flexible Product Model. Cenzic is the only company that provides clients with a hybrid offering of both Software and SaaS products. Benefit: The combination offers the ultimate flexibility in managing your Web application risk, as IT resources and security knowledge are ever-changing.
• 360˚ Coverage. Cenzic is the only company to test for vulnerabilities throughout the Software Development Lifecycle including ones in production, via our integration with VMware. Benefit: You can test the majority of your applications (80-90% of all applications are in production) for a thorough assessment of your vulnerability status. You are also able to conduct extremely intrusive tests (i.e. buffer overflow) on these production apps while protecting the data against corruption and/or down time.
• Addresses Proprietary Issues and Zero-Day Attacks. Cenzic’s SmartAttacks (vectors that spider Web apps to detect vulnerabilities) come ready-made, but can also be customized and configured to detect the latest attacks in existing systems such as Web browsers as well as ones in proprietary code. Benefit: Provides flexibility to customize attacks based on your own code. And you have the ability to remediate immediate threats as they are discovered and reported by 3^rd parties.
• Intelligent, Drillable Dashboard. Cenzic offers a Web-enabled dashboard that allows the entire organizations to use one standardized platform to manage their Web security risk. It allows management, QA, Compliance, IT Security, and Development to all use the product in tandem. Benefit: Pushes security deep into all IT departments without losing control and asking developers and QA to become security experts.
• Unified architecture. All Cenzic products are built on the same technology platform so you can effortlessly transfer data between our SaaS / managed service (ClickToSecure) and our software options (Cenzic Hailstorm). Benefit: This technology allows you to quickly scale your initial purchase without the loss of data and time to transfer to a different product.
• Unparalleled Support. Cenzic responds to customer needs within 24 hours for a standard inquiry, and less than 2 hours for a priority call. Our response time is far superior to the competitors, as Cenzic is the only stand-alone provider left in the market. Benefit: We are a nimble, innovative company that’s solely focused on keeping your Web applications secure. There’s no hidden agenda to sell you other software or hardware and you won’t be placed on hold for an hour to get a live person on the phone.

Additional Benefits of Using Cenzic

• Company brand protection
• Compliance assurance
• Improved assurance against hacker attacks
• Development and testing costs are reduced
• Faster time-to-market for internally developed applications