LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veracode, Inc., provider of the world’s only independent, cloud-based application risk management platform, today announced that Sam King, senior vice president of product strategy and marketing, will speak at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit London 2011. The event will be held at Lancaster London Hotel, London, UK, on September 19-20.
Sam King will be speaking at 9:15 a.m. on Tuesday, September 20 at the Beech Suite, Level 1. Her presentation, titled “Why Application Security Is an Imperative Today,” will analyze the current threat environment, and why more than 70 percent of attacks are now targeted against applications. It will examine the anatomy of recent attacks on companies such as Google, RSA, Sony, Barracuda and others, which resulted from vulnerabilities in their software infrastructure. The session will also present ways to mitigate the threat, and real-world case studies of how companies can protect themselves against these attacks.
Sam King is senior vice president of product strategy and marketing at Veracode, where her responsibilities include product and go-to-market strategy, messaging and positioning, service definition and offering management, analyst relations and driving thought leadership engagement such as Veracode’s State of Software Security reports. Ms. King joined Veracode from VeriSign (Guardent), where she held product management/marketing responsibilities and managed professional services, solutions architecture and customer relationship management teams.
Veracode is a Platinum Sponsor of the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit and will be demonstrating the Veracode platform, the market-leading cloud-based application intelligence and security verification service, at Stand 4 in the Solutions Showcase.
For more information on the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, please visit http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/emea/security/index.jsp.
About Veracode
Veracode is the only independent provider of cloud-based application intelligence and security verification services. The Veracode platform provides the fastest, most comprehensive solution to improve the security of internally developed, purchased or outsourced software applications and third-party components. By combining patented static, dynamic and manual testing, extensive eLearning capabilities, and advanced application analytics, Veracode enables scalable, policy-driven application risk management programs that help identify and eradicate numerous vulnerabilities by leveraging best-in-class technologies from vulnerability scanning to penetration testing and static code analysis. Veracode delivers unbiased proof of application security to stakeholders across the software supply chain while supporting independent audit and compliance requirements for all applications no matter how they are deployed, via the web, mobile or in the cloud. Veracode works with customers in more than 80 countries worldwide including Global 2000 brands such as Barclays PLC and Computershare as well as the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). For more information, visit www.veracode.com, follow on Twitter: @Veracode or read the ZeroDay Labs blog.