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SECURITY INNOVATION AND VIRTUAL FORGE ANNOUNCE GLOBAL
SAP APPLICATION SECURITY SERVICES PARTNERSHIP
Wilmington, MA - March 12, 2007 - Security
Innovation, the authority on application security and leading
independent provider of risk assessment, risk mitigation and
training services, and Virtual Forge, an expert SAP security
services and products company based in Mannheim, Germany, today
announced their partnership. This partnership will allow Virtual
Forge and Security Innovation to provide complete and seamless
application security services to companies utilizing a combination
of SAP and other business applications. Each company brings to the
partnership specific software security and development lifecycle
expertise that combined provide a complete application security
program for SAP customers.
Software is the critical infrastructure that enables modern
business, and in order for companies to successfully compete in the
business market, the security of their software is essential.
Security Innovation is an expert in application security risk
analysis and mitigation in Microsoft and J2EE environments, and has
helped hundreds of companies, including numerous Fortune/Global 500
companies, uncover and repair security flaws in their applications.
Virtual Forge is an expert in risk analysis and mitigation in SAP
applications and technology platforms and over the years has
provided high-quality security services to SAP customers as well as
to SAP itself. Together Virtual Forge and Security Innovation will
provide end-to-end application security solutions for SAP customers
world wide.
“Ensuring application security is a huge undertaking in any
organization, and is particularly difficult in those which deploy
business-critical applications from multiple vendors,” said Ed
Adams, CEO of Security Innovation. “SAP applications provide a
strong backbone for business, and working with Virtual Forge, which
has so much expertise in this area, will allow us to expand our
services to secure the application environments of those companies
that employ SAP applications.
“Working with a reliable, expert partner to manage application
security is a boon for companies that don’t have expertise in that
area, because the development of a secure application environment is
critical to success for both the company and its customers,” said
Markus Schumacher, CEO of Virtual Forge.“Partnering with Security
Innovation allows us to offer world-class security services and
support to our customers in the SAP application world.”
Virtual Forge and Security Innovation will begin collaborating on
projects immediately in both the United States and Europe. Enquiries
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 about Security Innovation, visit
www.securityinnovation.com or call +1.978.694.1008.
About Virtual Forge
Virtual Forge is an internationally operating consultancy based with
offices in Mannheim and Walldorf, (Germany) and Palo Alto (CA, USA),
with a main focus on security for SAP applications and technology
platforms. The company offers application security products,
consulting services and training. Virtual Forge has worked with SAP
and companies using SAP solutions for the past five years. For more
information about Virtual Forge please visit www.virtualforge.de or
call +49 (0)621 - 879 979-0.
Contacts
Davida Dinerman or Sadie Anderson
Schwartz Communications, Inc.
(781) 684-0770
sisecure@schwartz-pr.com
