Coverity In Security Magic Quadrant

Coverity, Inc.,the software integrity company, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the challengers quadrant in the 'Magic Quadrant for Static Application Security Testing(i)' report.


According to the report, "SAST for security vulnerabilities should be a mandatory requirement for all IT organizations that develop or procure applications. Although the market is relatively new and consolidating, enterprises must adopt SAST technologies and processes because the need is strategic."


The report also notes, "As attacks become more financially motivated and as organizations get better at securing their network, desktop and server infrastructures, there has been a shift in attacks to the application level. To address those new risks, several technology markets for application security have emerged, including static application security testing (SAST)."


"Coverity continues to aggressively execute our software integrity strategy to help customers solve their priority business challenges as they relate to software quality and security, such as compliance, recall prevention and componentization," said Dave Peterson, chief marketing officer at Coverity. "We believe our position in the Gartner report validates that software integrity has become an imperative for customers taking a strategic approach to driving quality, performance and security throughout every stage of the software development lifecycle."


According to Joseph Feiman and Neil MacDonald, the authors of the report, "SAST enables security vulnerability detection early in the application life cycle -- at construction (programming) and testing phases when the code is being written, built and tested. Proactively detecting and fixing security vulnerabilities earlier in the application development process reduces an application's overall security exposure and is less expensive than fixing the vulnerability when the application is in production."


Coverity recently announced a record year of growth in 2008 in which it expanded its customer base beyond 500 customers, raised its first round of external funding after six consecutive years of cash flow positive growth, executed three strategic acquisitions and received multiple awards for innovation including being named Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for the second consecutive year.