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SECURITY INNOVATION AND CHECKMARX ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP
Wilmington, MA - September 24, 2007 - Security Innovation, the
authority on application security and leading independent provider of
risk assessment, risk mitigation and training services, and Checkmarx, a
provider of comprehensive solutions for automated security code review,
today announced a strategic partnership. This partnership will provide
application security code management and development guidance products
to their customers.
Checkmarx and Security Innovation customers now have access to complete
secure code development support and guidance for their application
portfolios. The partnership will focus on security products in the
software development life cycle (SDLC) with Checkmarx’s CxSuite™ and
Security Innovation’s TeamMentor™. Organizations can assimilate
corporate standards to expand and adapt CxSuite and TeamMentor to their
specific environments, making them invaluable assets for secure code and
software development.
TeamMentor is a sophisticated application security guidance system that
delivers the collected experience of Security Innovation engineering to
development teams of all sizes. It provides on-demand, task based
collections of secure development knowledge, guidance and tooling to the
specific practitioners at the appropriate lifecycle phase, and helps
entire teams quickly develop the most secure and stable applications
they can. A software development team’s in house security expert,
TeamMentor guides through all of the steps of defining, designing,
coding, testing and deploying secure software applications in a time
when the expertise is needed most and hardest to find.
Checkmarx’s CxSuite allows organizations to address the challenge of
securing the code while cutting down on time and costs. By seamlessly
integrating into the (SDLC), Checkmarx’s automatic code review suite
enables organizations to identify, track and help fix technical and
logical security flaws from the root: the source code. CxSuite offers
Checkmarx’s CxQL™ unique query language permitting to discover
vulnerabilities in the source code with virtually zero false-positives.
“The growing dependence on complex software and increased usage of the
Internet is highlighting the importance of application security and
software reliability. Security Innovation is an expert in application
security risk analysis and mitigation in Microsoft and J2EE
environments,” said Emmanuel Benzaquen, CEO of Checkmarx. “By partnering
with Checkmarx, our customers will gain valuable guidance and tools to
help them advance in the application security industry. In the absence
of standards, both companies are offering clear-cut ways to assess the
security and reliability of applications.”
“Checkmarx provides a systematic solution which helps fix security
vulnerabilities in the code before hackers can take advantage of them.
Together Checkmarx and Security Innovation will integrate strong tools,
education and analysis to improve application security, ensuring
customers remains competitive in meeting business and regulatory
requirements,” said Ed Adams, CEO of Security Innovation.
Checkmarx and Security Innovation will begin collaborating on projects
immediately in both the United States and Europe. Inquiries to each may
be directed to their corporate offices.
About Security Innovation
Security Innovation is an authority on application security and
leading independent provider of Risk Assessment, Risk Mitigation and
Education services to Fortune/Global 500 and mid-size companies. The
world’s dominant technology vendors, elite financial institutions and
enterprise IT organizations, such as Microsoft, Sony, GE, ING, FedEx,
Visa and Symantec, trust our expertise to understand the security risks
in their application development framework and facilitate the software
and process change necessary to mitigate these risks. Security
Innovation is headquartered in Wilmington, Mass., with offices in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Seattle, Wash. For more information about
Security Innovation, visit www.securityinnovation.com or call
+1.978.694.1008.
About Checkmarx
Checkmarx is the leading provider of security software Source Code
Analysis solutions, offering a virtually zero false-positives technology
combined with a unique business logic vulnerability identification
method based on its proprietary query language and search engine. The
Checkmarx CxSuite™ facilitates the enforcement of regulatory compliance
requirements including internal company policies throughout the Software
Development Life Cycle. Checkmarx has developed a growing network of
strategic partnerships with industry leaders worldwide, understanding
the value of providing integrated, comprehensive solutions and expert
support to protect companies from the threats posed by technical and
logical security flaws in software applications. Checkmarx recently
released its products to Fortune 1000 and mid-size companies within the
Defense, Financial, Telecommunication, Government, and Military
industries as well as to largest Independent Software Vendors.
Checkmarx is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel with US offices in New
York. For more information, please visit
http://www.checkmarx.com/
Contacts
Davida Dinerman or Nicole Glidden
Schwartz Communications, Inc.
(781) 684-0770
sisecure@schwartz-pr.com
