Customer Case Studies

Defense: U.S. Navy

Customer

Security leaders in the U.S. Navy and researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL) are charged with building secure systems for military applications.

Challenges:

Few applications are more mission critical than the on-board systems that operate complex military assets and secure, real-time communications. Combine top levels of security, global development alliances, and isolated architectural elements and you've got an extreme software security challenge.

This arm of the U.S. Armed Forces constantly faces software security and software integration challenges that push the limits of modern software development and deployment capabilities. With the stakes so high, and the margin of error so limited, only the best of the best can play here.

They presented a set of challenging requirements: severe code complexity, embedded environments, distributed development, the highest security environment, an ability to enable remediation after code lockdown, and the need rapidly and accurately generate actionable results.

Why They Chose Ounce:

By partnering with Ounce Labs, the U.S. Navy was able to achieve previously unattainable levels of accuracy and completeness in their analysis of complex code, in highly secure environments. Security analysts were able to obtain accurate results without a deluge of false positives, meeting cost and schedule objectives through timely and flexible deployments of the Ounce solution.

With Ounce, time to productivity was measured in days, not weeks or months. As a result, the U.S. Navy was able to have increased visibility into, and confidence in, the code that operates some of the most sophisticated defense systems on the planet.