Watchfire Extends Alliance with Mercury; Announces AppScan Enterprise Integration for Mercury Quality Center 9.0.Watchfire Introduces Integration of Both AppScan and AppScan Enterprise with Mercury Quality Center(TM) 9.0 WALTHAM, Mass. & 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. -- Today at Mercury World 2006, Watchfire, the worldwide market-leading provider of web application vulnerability assessment A Department of Defense, command, or unit-level evaluation (assessment) to determine the vulnerability of a terrorist attack against an installation, unit, exercise, port, ship, residence, facility, or other site. software and services announced integration and support for Mercury Quality Center[TM] 9.0. AppScan[R] offers solutions for all types of 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, -outsourced, desktop-user and enterprise-wide analysis. Now, Watchfire's web application security testing solutions, AppScan, and AppScan[R] Enterprise both integrate with the most recent version of Mercury TestDirector[TM], part of Mercury Quality Center[TM]. Watchfire will also exhibit and demonstrate the integrations within the Mercury World 2006 Partner Showcase. Website security breaches and heightened concerns over more rigid regulatory compliance requirements Compliance requirements are a series of directives established by United States Federal government agencies that summarize hundreds of Federal laws and regulations applicable to Federal assistance (also known as Federal aid or Federal funds). highlight the increased need for ongoing web vulnerability scanning. Organizations need to find ways to test applications for security issues early in the development process. Integrating AppScan into the QA cycle will help ensure security issues are addressed before the application is deployed, saving costs and reducing risk. Watchfire's AppScan Enterprise is the industry's first web application vulnerability scanning and reporting solution for the enterprise. Building on the market-leading AppScan technology, AppScan Enterprise provides centralized control 1. In air defense, the control mode whereby a higher echelon makes direct target assignments to fire units. 2. In joint air operations, placing within one commander the responsibility and authority for planning, directing, and coordinating a military operation or group/category of with advanced application scanning, remediation capabilities, executive security metrics and dashboards, and key regulatory compliance reporting. The desktop version of AppScan is an automated web application security-testing tool that helps QA and audit personnel test and analyze applications for security defects and to resolve those defects before finding their way onto live websites. Mercury, the global leader in business technology optimization Business Technology Optimization (BTO), is an enterprise software product category focused on helping businesses ensure that every dollar invested in information technology, every resource allocated, and every application in development or production meets business goals. (BTO BTO British Trust for Ornithology BTO Business Technology Optimization BTO Bachman Turner Overdrive (band) BTO Business Transformation Outsourcing BTO Build-Transfer-Operate BTO Brutto (German: Gross [quantity]) ) software, provides an alliance program to enable technology and software vendors to develop integrations with Mercury BTO Enterprise products for IT governance, application delivery and application management. "Adding security testing to the QA process is a critical step to ensuring the delivery of quality web applications to the market. The AppScan integration with Mercury TestDirector and our partnership with Mercury is important to Watchfire's continued leadership," said Michael Weider, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. , Watchfire. "This integration enables all aspects of web application testingCofunctional, load and securityCoto be managed and run directly from the Mercury Quality Center environment, ultimately providing reduced risk and development costs by finding and fixing security defects during QA rather than during or after deployment." The integration of both AppScan and AppScan Enterprise with Mercury TestDirector[TM] will allow usersCoregardless of the organization's sizeCoto run critical web application security tests directly from the Mercury TestDirector environment. The integration will enable customers to automate testing and modify maintenance processes required to test and remediate critical application security defects, produce detailed security defect advisories and manage all tests (e.g., functional, load, and security) from a single console while storing the results in the Mercury Quality Center server. This integration will provide administration, centralized control and faster deployment critical to easing the manual burden, thereby reducing the cost of fixing security-related defects and helping QA teams to integrate security as a key component of their normal testing process. The integration provides a number of significant benefits, including: * QA professionals can configure, run and view security tests from within their familiar Mercury environment. * Centralized configuration and results viewing facilitates consistent and repetitive testing, which helps to reduce errors and improve efficiency. * Reduced development costs by helping find and fix security defects during QA rather than during or after deployment. * More secure application development with real-time training for QA and developers on secure testing and coding techniques. * Reduces business risk by helping ensure compliance with internal security best practices, external regulations and software quality assurance and management guidelines. * Easy administration, with centralized control, fast deployment and distributed workload, is scaleable to any size QA team. Watchfire is conducting product demonstrations highlighting the integrations of AppScan and AppScan Enterprise with Mercury Quality Center at Mercury World in Las Vegas this week at Booth # 221. These demonstrations will highlight how users can easily create security tests for their web application test plans and execute them as part of their normal QA process. For more information on the AppScan and Mercury TestDirector[TM] integration please visit: http://www.watchfire.com/products/appscan/appscan-mqc.aspx About the Mercury Alliance Program The Mercury Alliance Program is designed for companies offering best-of-breed services and value-added products that leverage Mercury business technology optimization (BTO) offerings and best practices. Mercury Alliance Partners provide BTO consulting and implementation services and products that complement Mercury's offerings in IT governance, application delivery, and application management to help customers optimize the business outcomes of IT. About Watchfire Watchfire provides Online Risk Management software and services to help ensure the security and compliance of websites. More than 500 enterprises and government agencies, including AXA AXA Anguilla, Anguilla (Airport Code) AXA Alpha Chi Alpha AXA Animal Crossing Ahead (online forum community/guide to the game Animal Crossing) AXA Auxiliary Artery Financial, SunTrust, HSBC HSBC Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation HSBC Humane Society of Broward County (Florida) HSBC Humane Society of Bay County (Bay County, Michigan) , Vodafone, Veterans Affairs Veterans Affairs is a term of the business that deals with the relation between a government and its veteran communities, usually administered by the designated government agency. and Dell rely on Watchfire to audit and report on issues impacting their online business. Watchfire has been the recipient of several industry honors including the HP/IAPP Privacy Innovation Award, InfoSecurity Product Guide's Hot Security Company 2006, Computerworld's Innovative Technology Award, and "Recommended" rating by Computer Reseller News. Watchfire was named by IDC as the worldwide market-share leader in web application vulnerability assessment software. Watchfire's partners include IBM Global Services IBM Global Services is the world's largest business and technology services provider. It is the fastest growing part of IBM, with over 190,000 professionals serving customers in more than 160 countries. , PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sapient sa·pi·ent adj. Having great wisdom and discernment. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sapi , Fortify for·ti·fy v. for·ti·fied, for·ti·fy·ing, for·ti·fies v.tr. To make strong, as: a. To strengthen and secure (a position) with fortifications. b. To reinforce by adding material. , Microsoft, Interwoven in·ter·weave v. in·ter·wove , in·ter·wo·ven , inter·weav·ing, inter·weaves v.tr. 1. To weave together. 2. To blend together; intermix. v.intr. , WebTrends, EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. Documentum and Mercury. Watchfire is headquartered in Waltham, MA. For more information, please visit www.watchfire.com. Watchfire, WebXM, AppScan, PowerTools, the Bobby Logo and the Flame Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Watchfire Corporation. Mercury, Mercury Quality Center and Mercury TestDirector are trademarks of Mercury Interactive For another company with a similar name, see Mercury Computer Systems. 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