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IBM COMMISSIONS SECURITY
INNOVATION TO PROVIDE
TRAINING COURSES TO CUSTOMERS AND EMPLOYEES
Customized Security Education Curriculum Offers Practical
Knowledge to
Developers, Testers, Auditors & Integrators Affiliated with IBM
Wilmington, MA - November 28, 2006 - Security
Innovation, the independent authority on application security
assessment, education and risk mitigation, today announced that it
has signed an annual, automatically renewing contract with IBM (NYSE:IBM)
for the sale of its security training courses to IBM’s customers and
internal departments. These courses address the needs of developers,
testers, auditors and integrators who must solve security problems
at the desktop and server level, as well as prior to product
release. The courses are available individually, and each offers an
average of 14 hours of training content with hands-on labs that can
be customized to specific customer settings.
“IBM has recognized the demand from its clients for security
training, and is offering our training courses to fill the void for
application security training,” said Ed Adams, CEO of Security
Innovation. “Many of IBM’s customers have thousands of developers,
testers, architects and analysts to train. Internally, the company
has 365,000 employees who stand to benefit from our training
program. Traditional live, instructor-led training methods don’t
scale to those numbers in a cost- or time-efficient manner. Our
training courses effectively roll out security awareness and
development best practices to large worldwide audiences.”
Security Innovation’s e-Learning courses have been well-received by
enterprise organizations, and the company has customized dozens of
courses, which are already in use at Fortune 500 companies. The
curriculum for these courses, built around the company’s expertise
in application security, draws on its publications, “How to Break
Software Security” and “The Software Vulnerability Guide.” The
online courses feature Chief Security Strategist Herbert H.
Thompson, Ph.D., a world-renowned expert on secure application
testing and development, who conveys his knowledge in a practical
way.
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 about Security Innovation, visit
www.securityinnovation.com or call +1.978.694.1008.
Contacts:
Davida Dinerman or Sadie Anderson
Schwartz Communications, Inc.
(781) 684-0770
sisecure@schwartz-pr.com
