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SECURITY INNOVATION EXECUTIVE TO DISCUSS
THE QUEST FOR SECURITY ROI AT CYBER SECURITY SUMMIT
Herbert H. Thompson, Ph.D., to Explain Software Risk and
How to Make More Strategic Purchasing, Development and Deployment
Decisions
Wilmington, MA—May 15, 2006 - Security
Innovation, the independent authority on application security
development and assessment, today announced that its Chief Security
Strategist Herbert H. Thompson, Ph.D., will be presenting “What Does
Security Mean to My Business: The Quest for Security ROI” on May 22
at the Cyber Security Summit, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL.
There’s no doubt that (in)security has been one of the biggest pain
points the IT industry has faced in the last few years. Security
breaches cause downtime and data corruption; they breed theft, lead
to exposure, and many companies now face legal penalties under
relatively new laws like Sarbanes-Oxley and California Senate Bill
1386. Corporations realize that their biggest IT risks stem from
fundamental flaws in software, and this understanding is starting to
impact organizations’ software purchasing and deployment decisions.
“To meet business security needs, we need new rules for measuring
security with a view toward helping CIOs and IT managers identify
their biggest risks to make more security-savvy software purchasing,
development, and deployment decisions. This is the very reason the
AppSIC non-profit consortium (www.appsic.org) was created,” said Dr.
Thompson.
This session, presented by Dr. Thompson, the founder and chair of
AppSIC, will present some new ways to get traction on software risk
and make more strategic purchasing, development and deployment
decisions around security. Attendees will learn why companies like
Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, ING, Gartner and IDC eagerly joined the
AppSIC think tank and offered their CSOs and senior VPs to the
consortium.
Who: Chief Security Strategist, Herbert Thompson, Ph.D., Security
Innovation Inc.
What: “What Does Security Mean to My Business: The Quest for
Security ROI”
When: May 22, 2006, time?
Where: Cyber Security Summit, Sawgrass Marriott Resort, Ponte Verda,
FL
URL: http://www.cybersecuritysummit.com/
About AppSIC
The Application Security Industry Consortium (AppSIC) is a community
of security and technology experts united to establish and define
the cross-industry application security guidelines and measures,
seeking to:
- Bridge the gap between application security issues & business needs
- Develop a yardstick for secure software development processes;
- Generate application security assessment criteria;
- Develop guidelines to address application security issues throughout the software development process; and
- Provide insight on security and business return on investment.
About Dr. Herbert Thompson
Dr. Thompson is a world-renown expert in application security and is
an adjunct professor at Florida Institute of Technology. He has
co-authored or edited 12 books including, “How to Break Software
Security: Effective Techniques for Security Testing” (2004, Addison
Wellesley) and most recently, “The Software Vulnerability Guide.”
(2005, Charles River Media).
At Security Innovation, Dr. Thompson is responsible for the overall
security and research efforts, along with training developers and
security testers at some of the world’s largest software companies
including Microsoft, HP, IBM, Cisco, Symantec and SAIC.
Dr. Thompson is one of only 18 individuals worldwide to hold the
prestigious honor of Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in
the category of Developer Security.
About Security Innovation
Security Innovation is the authority on application security and
leading independent provider of assessment and training services.
Dozens of leading organizations, including Adobe, Cisco, Fidelity,
Harris Corporation, IBM, ING, HP, Microsoft, VISA, SAP, Symantec,
VeriSign and a number of government agencies, rely on Security
Innovation’s expertise in application security testing and training
to develop, evaluate and deploy more secure applications. More than
60 percent of the Company’s staff holds advanced degrees in computer
science with 30 percent at the Ph.D. level. The Company is
headquartered in Wilmington, Mass., with offices in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands; Seattle, Wash.; and Melbourne, Fla. For more
information about Security Innovation, visit
www.securityinnovation.com or call +1.978.694.1008.
Contacts:
Davida Dinerman/Tom Bain
Schwartz Communications, Inc.
(781) 684-0770
sisecure@schwartz-pr.com
