Gartner continues to recognize Port Swigger as a Challenger for AST in 2015
Summary: On August 6 2015 Gartner released its annual Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing and placed PortSwigger Web Security as a Challenger for the second year, based on ability to execute and completeness of vision. In the report, analysts Joseph Feiman and Neil MacDonald wrote that highly publicized breaches in the prior 12 months raised awareness of the need to remediate vulnerabilities at the application layer, and that attackers had increased the sophistication and frequency of attacks for financial gain.
Why it matters: Gartner's analysts tied the market's attention to a specific driver: breaches in the previous 12 months pushed application-layer remediation up the agenda, and attackers were described as more sophisticated and more frequent, motivated by theft of monetary assets, intellectual property and sensitive information.
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