IBM scooped the Best Security Company at Secure Computing 2010 Awards. Click these here links for a full list of finalists and winners. IMHO this is cos IBM has been going all aquisitive on us and snapped up, it would appear strategically (well done guys), all sorts of niche solutions over the past four or five years. Noteably for those of us at Seric Towers are of course Watchfire (2007) and Ounce Labs (2009) and we do see a fair bit of ISS (2006) out there in cyberville. Throw these bad boys into the already reasonably juicy mix and rub some GBS on it and IBM have a good story to tell those enterprise boys. Good enough to win the Security Company of the Year from SC at the largest awards in the Security Industry Calendar.
Here are some of the factoids about what IBM is doing to get just such an accolade
- 7,000,000,000+ security events managed
daily
- 48,000+ vulnerabilities tracked in the IBM
X-Force research and development database
- 15,000 researchers, developers and subject matter
experts on security initiatives
- 4,000+ customers managed in security operations
centres around the world
- 3,000+ security & risk management
patents
- 40+ years of proven success with security and
virtualisation
Why am I telling you this - well this would be the shameless plug section of the blog, we do this stuff! We supply and support the IBM's Rational AppScan Suite - covering black and whitebox application scanning. If you want secure code out there that won't leave you with egg (a fine) on your face (balance sheet) get in touch! Look, I even have a snazzy graphic for this stuff on my blog - yes, I spotted it should read PROTECTED
There are are 10 different siblings in the AppScan Family. You can compare the members of the AppScan clan here - though it is a particularly bad page as the row headings don't change with teh product changes and products look devoid of features when they are in fact irrelevant. Anyway - pick three and compare like-for-like, find what you like and then call us 0141 561 1161 - we'd like that ;-)
