Burlington, Mass., June 30th, 2009 - Veracode Inc., provider of the world’s leading Application Risk Management Platform, today announced expansion of its SecurityReview cloud-based subscription service to support mobile applications. With more than 100,000 mobile applications already in the market and millions of mobile users accessing critical business data, the security risk posed by these applications is staggering. Veracode announced immediate availability for Windows Mobile with near term support for other platforms such as RIM BlackBerry, Google Android and Apple iPhone. Veracode’s SecurityReview is the first solution to enable enterprises and software vendors to assess the security risk of mobile applications before they are shipped or deployed to combat the growing number of data breaches and compliance failures. Enterprises are increasingly transacting critical data with customers and remote workers through mobile applications, yet the security of these applications goes largely untested. Source code for mobile applications is rarely available, as most software is

written by third parties and is insufficient in finding vulnerabilities such as backdoors, malicious code or flaws introduced by third party libraries and components. Veracode provides the only solution to assess binary code the way attackers see it enabling organizations to apply a common, holistic approach to secure both their mobile and server applications regardless of whether they are internally developed, purchased from a commercial vendor, outsourced or open source. “Mobile applications are one of the fastest growing segments of the software market,” said Diana Kelley, principal analyst, Security-Curve. “Insecure software which processes sensitive data poses a risk to enterprises, regardless of the platform it is run on. Enterprises need to apply the same risk assessment and security analysis to mobile applications as they do to those housed in data centers.” “Today, there isn’t a major financial institution, software vendor or healthcare provider…

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Veracode To Assess Mobile-App Security Risks