Verecode application security service.

Veracode have recently released a new application security testing service and providing a completely objective industry-standard benchmark to measure the security level of third-party applications--important for the growing number of companies adopting an outsourced approach to managing IT or undergoing merger or acquisition. Veracode's SecurityReview[R] is a solution that enables organisations to discover security flaws in software automatically, without releasing their valuable source code For all those companies developing their own software--large or small--it provides a in- a-box solution to test the security of their creations and the code they're based upon. It also claims to introduce the ability to test for backdoors in direct response to requests from financial and government bodies in the US who are seeing the exploitation of backdoors as a real problem after research from the US Department of Homeland Security suggests that 23% of software packages being used by US government employees had backdoors within them.

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