http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180872/HP_s_Fortify_buy_puts_spotlight_on_obscure_but_important_niche By Jaikumar Vijayan Computerworld August 18, 2010 Hewlett-Packard's move this week to buy Fortify software focuses attention on the increasingly important, but still mostly underutilized category of application security products, security experts say. Privately-held Fortify will provide HP with a set of technologies for on-premise testing of applications through all stages of the development process through deployment. The planned acquisition complements HP's 2007 purchase SPI Dynamics, a vendor of Web application security products. Fortify will also give HP the means to match IBM's range of static and dynamic analysis tools that help companies test applications during the coding and testing stages, as well as the deployment phase. The Fortify acquisition is the latest move in efforts by IBM and HP to build competitive application security portfolios mostly via acquisition. HP's purchase of SPI Dynamics for instance, followed IBM's acquisition Web application security vendor Waterfire. And HP's purchase of Fortify follows last year's IBM acquisition of Fortify competor Ounce Labs. [...] _______________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isnReceived on Fri Aug 20 2010 - 00:06:02 PDT
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