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, Inc. is an independent application security firm that offers education, risk assessment and risk mitigation solutions to Fortune/Global 500 and enterprise IT organizations. Leading companies such as Adobe, Cisco, Fidelity, IBM, ING, HP, Microsoft, VISA, SAP, Symantec, VeriSign and government agencies, rely on Security Innovation’s expertise to gain confidence in the security of applications they build and/or acquire, and facilitate the technology, process and management change necessary to mitigate security risk. The company is headquartered in Wilmington, Mass., with offices in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Seattle, Wash. For more information please 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 www.checkmarx.com |