Is Your Web Site Leaking Confidential Company Data?

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--When it comes to security, the World Wide Web is a bit like the Wild, Wild West. Because when it comes to cybercrime, everyone—from the mom and pop shops to the major corporations—is a sitting duck if not totally secure. So how safe is your Web application? A new webinar sponsored by Alpha Software will show application developers how to take full advantage of Alpha Five’s comprehensive Web Security Framework when building their applications.

“Every week you hear stories of some malicious hacker who made off with credit card numbers, personal information, or security secrets that were stored on a company’s database”

Last month, the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, an industry group created to share data about critical threats to the financial sector, issued an alert to warn businesses about the increase in cyber threats in the past six months. The latest numbers show some companies have suffered hundreds of thousands of dollars or more in losses. The most at-risk target? Small- and mid-sized businesses, which attract less media attention than large corporations, but still suffer severe damages.

“Every week you hear stories of some malicious hacker who made off with credit card numbers, personal information, or security secrets that were stored on a company’s database,” says Richard Rabins, Co-Chairman of Alpha Software. “And it seems that as security evolves, so do cybercriminals. It’s no surprise that more stringent security legislation to try to keep customers and employees safe is now coming into play. With noncompliance fines reaching upward of $10,000 per credit card number lifted from a system, no company can afford to be unprotected. That’s why we’re doing everything we can to ensure our customers’ sensitive business data is secure.”

The webinar, which will take place Tuesday, Sept. 29 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT, will explain everything developers need to know to implement security in their Alpha Five Web applications with confidence. Participants will:

Learn how to avoid common mistakes that could render their application vulnerable.
See how Alpha Five’s architecture protects data tables.
See how to set up security groups with different access rights.
Learn how to tie their application into the built-in security module using the ULINK field.
Learn about the new component level security, which allows components to show different fields to different users.
Be able to assure their clients that their applications and data are secure.

The two-hour session will be led by Alpha Security Chief and creator of Alpha Five’s Security Framework, Jerry Brightbill, and costs $199. Brightbill has worked with all Alpha versions from the first to the current version. He joined Alpha Software in 2005, and is the architect of the Web security system and other features in Alpha Five. For the past two years, he has been developing large Web applications as part of the Alpha Software professional service department.

Anyone can sign up for the security webinar. To register, visit Alpha’s webinar log on page.

ABOUT ALPHA SOFTWARE

Since 1982, Alpha Software has been providing developers with award-winning tools that make it easy to rapidly build robust database and business applications. Today over 1 million developers rely on Alpha Software’s flagship platform, Alpha Five, to build desktop, client-server, distributed, Web 2.0, and AJAX applications for organizations of any size—from SOHO to the Fortune 100. Every day, tens of millions of people and businesses rely on applications built in Alpha Five. With the introduction of Alpha Five Version 9 Platinum Edition in 2008, Alpha Software set new standards for speed of development, portability, reporting, and security for database applications of all stripes. The company is privately held, and based in Burlington, Mass. Alpha Software can be found on the Web at http://www.alphasoftware.com.

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