WhiteHat Security is a leading provider of website security services. WhiteHat brings website security under control by finding and fixing vulnerabilities before hackers can exploit them. It is the ideal solution to ensure the security of data, maintain regulatory compliance, and safeguard brand integrity.

The WhiteHat Security and F5 partnership yields a uniquely powerful and efficient solution that provides organizations with a new means of combating the onslaught of website attacks that place customer and corporate data at risk. F5's open iControl API provides the integration between WhiteHat Sentinel, the industry-leading website vulnerability management solution, and the award-winning F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) Web application firewall. Additionally, the combined solution from WhiteHat Security and F5 fully meets requirement No. 6.6 (Develop and maintain secure systems and applications) of the PCI compliance standards developed by VISA, MasterCard, and other major credit card companies.

According to the standard, an organization must do at least one of the following to meet this requirement: Undergo application scanning and code review by an application security specialist -OR- Install a web application firewall in front of the web-facing applications. This partnership enables customers to achieve both requirements in just one step.

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