Armonk, NY - 28 Jul 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has acquired Ounce Labs, Inc., a privately-held company based in Waltham, Massachusetts, whose software helps companies reduce the risks and costs associated with security and compliance concerns. IBM will integrate Ounce Labs, a leading provider of enterprise source code security testing, into its Rational software business. Financial terms were not disclosed.
As today's systems become increasingly interconnected, instrumented and intelligent, they are also becoming more complex, forcing organizations to protect themselves from an evolving array of security and compliance risks. The industry-leading Ounce Labs solutions use advanced capabilities to scan software source code and identify potential security and compliance vulnerabilities during the earliest stages of software development, when they are less expensive to correct. Ounce Labs software can also help organizations to rapidly assess and remediate the level of risk posed to their businesses through their legacy applications.
Many software application vulnerabilities can be prevented or avoided by taking a preemptive approach to security. Read full press release...
