Best of Interop Judges Name Cenzic Hailstorm As Award Winner in Security Category at NetWorld+Interop 2002 Las Vegas.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NetWorld+Interop 2002 Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. Booth 2507 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2002 Editors from CMP CMP (cytidine monophosphate): see cytosine. (1) (CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, NY, www.cmp.com) Part of United Business Media, CMP is a leading integrated media company that offers a wide variety of publications and services in the information Media LLC's Network Computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. , InformationWeek and EE Times Select Cenzic Hailstorm See .NET My Services. (TM) as the Security Winner Cenzic Hailstorm was named the Winner in the Security Category of the Best of Interop Awards competition for NetWorld+Interop 2002 in Las Vegas. The Best of Interop awards, sponsored by CMP Media LLC's Network Computing, InformationWeek and EE Times, were announced during a ceremony at this year's event. Cenzic Hailstorm, introduced last week, is the first software platform providing automated testing (testing) automated testing - Software testing assisted with software tools that require no operator input, analysis, or evaluation. and test development for security quality assurance in the enterprise. Cenzic Hailstorm incorporates a unique, patent-pending methodology, based on software fault injection, for the testing of unknown and actual vulnerabilities within applications and the network. In addition, it provides a foundation for the development of tests to address specific business security requirements. The judges -- award winning editors from CMP Media's leading technology magazines, Network Computing, InformationWeek and EE Times -- reviewed more than 250 submissions overall, and determined that Cenzic Hailstorm deserved the top honor based upon their rigorous evaluation. By identifying innovative products debuted at NetWorld+Interop, the Best of Show Awards assist in the quest for Verb 1. quest for - go in search of or hunt for; "pursue a hobby" quest after, go after, pursue look for, search, seek - try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the technology-enabled solutions. The Best of Interop judges recognize only a select few groundbreaking products each year that will significantly impact and enable the future of business. Products awarded this prestigious honor signify to IT executives and managers that they are the best solutions to support an efficient and competitive business. "Cenzic Hailstorm is the best path to security quality assurance because it ensures reliability in application environments of global enterprises," said Cenzic CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Alan Henricks. "Winning Best of Interop in the security category is a great honor and affirms the critical market need for Cenzic Hailstorm." "Every year we must review some of the best and most promising new technology solutions, and it is always challenging to determine the winner. Using our very thorough evaluation process, Cenzic Hailstorm was selected as a Best of Interop winner because it is the most innovative solution in the security category," said Ron Anderson Ron Anderson could mean any of the following people:
Using a powerful methodology, Cenzic Hailstorm automates the manual security testing Security Testing: (The) Process to determine that an IS (Information System) protects data and maintains functionality as intended. The six basic security concepts that need to be covered by security testing are: confidentiality, integrity, authentication, authorisation, process using software fault injection. Individual applications or entire systems of application components commonly found in Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. can be analyzed to identify vulnerabilities. Packaged fault injectors shipping with Cenzic Hailstorm include: buffer overflow A common cause of malfunctioning software. If the amount of data written into a buffer exceeds the size of the buffer, the additional data will be written into adjacent areas, which could be buffers, constants, flags or variables. , SQL injection SQL injection is a technique that exploits a security vulnerability occurring in the database layer of an application. The vulnerability is present when user input is either incorrectly filtered for string literal escape characters embedded in SQL statements or user input is not , cross-site scripting, and IDS evasion supporting HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. and other popular protocol-level tests. Comprehensive reporting enables an enterprise to effectively qualify risk and to architect and implement its mitigation. Cenzic Hailstorm provides five phases of security quality assurance to provide consistent, repeatable and reusable tests: -- Discovery and inventory -- Determines and fingerprints networks, systems and services. -- Fault injection -- Selects and applies fault injectors based on findings from the discovery process. -- Fault detection -- Configurable, remote detection of fault-states with subsequent reporting to the Cenzic security analytics engine. -- Reporting -- Generates and collects information from each test for detailed analysis. -- Automation -- Provides out-of-the-box security QA through bundled prepackaged ASSIST scripts. Product Details and Availability Cenzic Hailstorm operates with Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP, is compatible with Internet Explorer 6 and can test any network, operating system, service and application across OSI (1) (Open System Interconnection) An ISO standard for worldwide communications that defines a framework for implementing protocols in seven layers. Control is passed from one layer to the next, starting at the application layer in one station, proceeding to the layers 2-7. Cenzic Hailstorm is currently available beginning to enterprises through a platform license. License fees are dependent on the components and size of an enterprise's network infrastructure. About CMP Media CMP Media (www.cmp.com) is a leading high-tech media company providing essential information and marketing services to the entire technology spectrum -- the builders, sellers and users of technology worldwide. Capitalizing on its editorial strength, CMP is uniquely positioned to offer marketers' comprehensive, integrated media solutions tailored to meet their individual needs. Its diverse products and services include newspapers, magazines, Internet products, research, direct marketing services, education and training, trade shows and conferences, custom publishing, testing and consulting. About NetWorld+Interop NetWorld+Interop is the world's premier education and interactive event forum for technical professionals responsible for network and IT strategies from large enterprise and service provider organizations. The professional and business interests of the community are promoted through four proven elements: Quality education taught by experts in networking, technology demonstration featured in our InteropNet programs, an interactive show floor featuring top networking and telecommunications vendors, and a global platform delivering quality events in six countries. NetWorld+Interop is a Key3Media event. Key3Media Group, Inc., is the world's leading producer of information technology trade shows and conferences, serving more than 5,300 exhibiting companies and 1.3 million attendees through 60 events in 17 countries. Key3Media's products range from the IT industry's largest exhibition such as COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). and NetWorld+Interop to highly focused events featuring renowned education programs, customer seminars and specialized vendor marketing programs. For more information about Key3Media, visit www.key3media.com. About Cenzic Inc. Cenzic is the first company to develop a software platform providing security quality assurance for use with applications and the network infrastructure. Headquartered in Campbell, Calif., Cenzic was founded in May 2000 and received funding from top-tier venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and JK&B Capital. For more information, call 408-626-9004 or visit the Cenzic Web site, www.cenzic.com. |
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