Fortify Software, later known as Fortify Inc., is a

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-based software security vendor, founded in 2003 and acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2010,

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in 2017, and OpenText in 2022. Fortify offerings included

Static application security testing Static application security testing (SAST) is used to secure software by reviewing the source code of the software to identify sources of vulnerabilities. Although the process of statically analyzing the source code has existed as long as computers ...

(SAST) and Dynamic Application Security Testing products, as well as products and services that support Software Security Assurance. In 2011, Fortify introduced ''Fortify OnDemand'', a static and dynamic application testing service.

History

Fortify Software was founded by

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in 2003. Fortify Inc. was acquired by HP in 2010. On September 7, 2016, HPE CEO

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announced that the software assets of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, including Fortify, would be merged with

to create an independent company of which HP Enterprise shareholders would retain majority ownership. Micro Focus CEO Kevin Loosemore called the transaction "entirely consistent with our established acquisition strategy and our focus on efficient management of mature infrastructure products" and indicated that Micro Focus intended to "bring the core earnings margin for the mature assets in the deal - about 80 percent of the total - from 21 percent today to Micro Focus's existing 46 percent level within three years." The merge concluded on September 1, 2017.

Technical advisory board

Fortify's technical advisory board was composed of

Avi Rubin Aviel David "Avi" Rubin (born November 8, 1967) is an expert in systems and networking security. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, Technical Director of the Information Se ...

Bill Joy William Nelson Joy (born November 8, 1954) is an American computer engineer and venture capitalist. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as Chief Scientist and CTO at ...

, David Wagner,

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, Gary McGraw, Greg Morrisett, Li Gong, Marcus Ranum, Matt Bishop, William Pugh, and John Viega.

Security research

Fortify created a security research group that maintained the Java Open Review project and the Vulncat taxonomy of security vulnerabilities in addition to the security rules for Fortify's analysis software. Members of the group wrote the book ''Secure Coding with Static Analysis'', and published research, including ''JavaScript Hijacking'', ''Attacking the build: Cross build Injection'', ''Watch what you write: Preventing Cross-site scripting by observing program output'', and ''Dynamic taint propagation: Finding vulnerabilities without attacking''.

References

External links

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Gartner 2018 Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing
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History

Technical advisory board

Security research

See also

References

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