What:
Jack Danahy, founder and CTO for Ounce Labs, the industry leader in software risk analysis, will present a session titled ‘Beyond the Coding Errors: The Complete View of Software Security’ at the RSA Conference 2008 next week.
Session Overview:
While security professionals and vendors typically focus on vulnerabilities caused by coding errors, they often overlook improper implementation of critical design elements that may cause even greater risk of exposure. This session will offer a checklist of baseline security and design policies as well as a step-by-step look at how to assess software security before it is deployed.
Where:
The conference is being held on April 7-11 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.
When:
Mr. Danahy will present on Tuesday, April 8th at 5:40 p.m. PT in Red Room 309
Speaker:
Jack Danahy is founder and chief technology officer of Ounce Labs as well as one of the industry’s most prominent advocates for software security assurance. Prior to Ounce Labs, he founded Qiave Technologies, a pioneer in kernel-level security that was acquired by WatchGuard Technologies in October of 2000. Previously, Danahy served as the managing director of engineering for BBN/Genuity's managed security services.
Attendees interested in more information about Ounce Labs can visit Booth #823. To schedule meetings with Ounce Labs experts at the conference, please contact Davies Murphy Group via phone at 781-418-2435 or email at ounce@daviesmurphy.com.
About Ounce Labs, Inc.
Ounce Labs’ solutions enable organizations to identify, prioritize and eliminate business risk to the enterprise caused by software security vulnerabilities. With Ounce Labs, organizations strengthen application security, protect confidential information and verify compliance with both internal policies and industry mandates such as PCI, FISMA, HIPAA and others.
Ounce Labs’ software analyzes application source code to provide the most complete and accurate analysis of application vulnerabilities and their relative priorities, enabling business users and IT professionals to optimize their resources on resolving the most critical issues.
Unique in its ability to scale across an organization's entire portfolio of applications, Ounce is used enterprise-wide by many of the world's most security-conscious organizations, including AT&T, EDS, IBM, Intel, Lockheed Martin, MFS, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Government Accountability Office, Unisys and VeriSign.
Led by senior executives with deep enterprise software and security expertise, Ounce Labs is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, with regional offices throughout the U.S. For more information, please visit www.ouncelabs.com.
Media Contacts:
Peter Crosby
Ounce Labs
781.547.7012
Peter.Crosby@ouncelabs.com
http://www.ouncelabs.com
Brenda Menard
Davies Murphy Group
+1.781.418.2435
ounce@daviesmurphy.com
http://www.daviesmurphy.com
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