SAN MATEO, Calif., Dec. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Fortify(R) Software, the market leader in enterprise application security solutions, today announced that Fortify(R) Defender, the company's award-winning application shield, won the 2007 Testers' Choice Award in the category of "Best Solution from a New Player" with Software Test & Performance magazine. The Testers Choice awards, conducted annually by Software Test & Performance, recognize excellence in software test and performance tools. The award comprises categories encompassing the range of tools designed to improve software quality.
"Our readers use these products day in and day out, so if they feel a particular product is worthy of recognition, that is powerful validation of that product's functionality," said Edward J. Correia, editor of Software Test & Performance. "For some of the best software testing groups in the world, Fortify Defender clearly has made the cut."
The arbiters of excellence are Software Test & Performance subscribers, who vote on products in specific categories. The Testers Choice awards consist of a winner and two finalists from each category. The winners were announced at the Software Test & Performance Conference, held Oct 2-4 in Boston, and the awards were published in the December issue of the magazine (http://www.stpmag.com/).
About Fortify Defender
Fortify(R) Defender enables a new, highly accurate layer of Web application security by monitoring security critical functions and application programming interfaces (APIs) inside the Web application itself. This unique "internal firewall" approach offers critical insight into attacks as well as an unparalleled level of security. More information is available at http://www.fortify.com/products/defender.
About Fortify Software, Inc.
Fortify(R) Software products protect companies from the threats posed by security flaws in business-critical software applications. Its software security products -- Fortify SCA, Fortify Manager, Fortify Tracer and Fortify Defender -- drive down costs and security risks by automating key processes of developing and deploying secure applications. Fortify Software's customers include government agencies and FORTUNE 500 companies in a wide variety of industries, such as financial services, healthcare, e-commerce, telecommunications, publishing, insurance, systems integration and information management. The company is backed by world-class teams of software security experts and partners. More information is available at http://www.fortify.com/.
About BZ Media's SD Times
BZ Media LLC(R) is a New York-based media company combining the best of print and Internet publishing with industry leading technical conferences and expositions. See BZ Media at http://www.bzmedia.com/. Software Test & Performance magazine(R) is a monthly magazine focused on testing and software performance issues. ST&P reaches more than 25,000 software development managers, project and team leaders, and test QA managers.
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