4 posts and columns on Fortify

HP Makes Enterprise Security Push

in Enterprise on September 12, 2011 at 12:01 am PT

Hewlett-Packard announced a broad IT security strategy that seems a harbinger of the new enterprise-y HP that CEO Léo Apotheker has in mind.
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HP: Haven’t Found a New CEO Yet, Might As Well Buy Another Company

in News on September 13, 2010 at 1:27 am PT

Mark Hurd’s ouster from Hewlett-Packard hasn’t slowed the company’s recent spending spree. In August, HP acquired security software company Fortify for an undisclosed sum. Shortly afterward it snatched data-storage vendor 3Par away from Dell after a hard-fought bidding war.Now HP’s M&A team has set its sights on another acquisition: ArcSight.

HP Fortifies Application-Security Services

in News on August 17, 2010 at 7:08 am PT

So much for Fortify’s plans to go public. This morning the software-security-assurance company was acquired by Hewlett-Packard.
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New Effort Hopes to Improve Software Security

in News on March 4, 2009 at 3:33 pm PT

It’s not much of a secret that a lot of software has security flaws. One reason is that there aren’t any real standards for designing secure software. In fact, the right way to secure programs is rarely discussed at all. A new group is hoping to change that.