Why is application security important?

Industry specialists agree that over 70% of all security break-ins happen on the application layer, not on the network layer. In order to ensure that enterprise security policies and regulations are adequately addressed on the application layer, matching fine-grained access policies need to be enforced reliably and consistently. And at low cost and low maintenance. Without application access control and auditing, enterprises would leave the most important layer in their IT landscape unprotected.