GRUPO GESFOR AND OUNCE LABS FORM GLOBAL ALLIANCE PARTNERSHIP

Companies partner to help organizations in Spain and Latin America identify software security vulnerabilities and reduce risk with source code analysis

 

Madrid, Spain – April 22, 2008 –Grupo Gesfor, a leading Spanish global IT professional services company and Ounce Labs, the industry leader in software risk analysis, today announced a global alliance partnership to provide Ounce Lab’s application security solutions throughout Spain and Latin America. Grupo Gesfor will provide marketing, sales, and implementation support to companies in these regions interested in Ounce Labs’ leading source code analysis solution that addresses the increasing risks insecure software poses to their brands and ongoing operations.

Grupo Gesfor has a proven track in working with best of breed IT security solutions and implementing software security tools. Grupo Gesfor will work with Ounce Labs to expand its presence in Latin America and Spain by working closely with the company and its subsidiaries in countries including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Panama, Peru, Mexico and Venezuela to manage their customer’s application risk by identifying and remediating security issues caused by software security vulnerabilities.

“As organizations around the world wrestle with issues of regulatory compliance and information security, they are beginning to realize the importance of application security in the bigger picture of data protection and risk management,” said David Curran, Vice President of International Sales for Ounce Labs. “With Grupo Gesfor as a global alliance partner, we can help leading companies in Spain and Latin America to address a truly universal business need – securing corporate assets at the most fundamental level, in the software where it resides.”

“Our customers are looking to prevent the types of targeted software-level exploits that underlie the new wave of high-profile data theft attacks,” said Juan José Galán, Director of Partnerships and Innovation of Grupo Gesfor. “With Ounce Labs source code analysis solution, they can strengthen their application security, protect confidential information and adhere to industry regulations including PCI, FISMA, and Sarbanes-Oxley.” 

About Ounce Labs, Inc.
Ounce Labs’ industry-leading source code analysis solutions enable organizations to analyze their applications to identify, prioritize and eliminate software security vulnerabilities. Ounce delivers the accuracy, immediate time-to-value, and automated workflow that large enterprises demand while helping organizations such as EDS, IBM, Intel, Lockheed Martin, MFS, the U.S. Government Accountability Office, Unisys and VeriSign, to strengthen application security and protect confidential information. Ounce also helps organizations to verify compliance with internal policies and industry mandates including PCI DSS, FISMA, HIPAA and others. For more information, please visit www.ouncelabs.com. 

About Grupo Gesfor
Gesfor is a Spanish Multinational, operating in Spain since 1985, and through 9 branches: in 8 Latin-American countries (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Panamá, Perú, México y Venezuela), and USA.

Gesfor works in Consulting and IT Services, generating value and developing business in order to consolidate a competitive activity appreciated by customers and markets. Its list of references includes many of the most important Spanish companies.

Its offering includes: services as IT Consulting, EAI and Application Development, Outsourcing, Infrastructure and System Management, Security, Software Factory, E-Business, Training, or HR consulting; and solutions as: Document Management Systems, ECM, Resource Allocation, Real State, Portals and Webs Development, Mobility, CRM, Business-Intelligence or ERP – SCM.

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 EDS, IBM, Intel, Lockheed Martin, MFS, 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

Isabel Úbeda
Grupo Gesfor, Communication Department
iubedaa@gesfor.es

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