"The Codenomicon tools are amazing. Using them is like being attacked by the most relentless adversary who uses every possible method to find flaws in your code

We fixed subtle crash bugs in Samba that had been in the code for over ten years. We would never have found those bugs without the Codenomicon tools.

If you're serious about implementing protocols correctly, you need the Codenomicon tools."

-- Jeremy Allison,
   Co Creator of Samba


"Codenomicon has found a critical focus area which expands beyond web testing, where the XML industry has an opportunity to proactively assess the security holes contained in everyday services used by the general public. I would hope the industry warmly welcomes both the research results and an innovative testing solution to help diagnose the problems."

Prof. Howard A. Schmidt
former White House Cyber Security advisor & Codenomicon board member

DEFENSICS™ for 3G/4G LTE   pdf

Introduction | DEFENSICS™ Advantage | DEFENSICS™ for 4G

DEFENSICS™ Advantage

Codenomicon DEFENSICS preemptive security and robustness testing solutions empower customers to mitigate unknown and published threats in products and services prior to release or deployment - before systems are exposed, outages occur and zero-day attacks strike.

Founded in 2001, the company was spun out of the successful PROTOS test tools research of the Oulu University Secure Programming Group. Years later, the world-proven Codenomicon DEFENSICS platform remains unmatched in its ability to quickly find quality, resiliency and security flaws within the broadest array of applications. Thousands of developers and security analysts across telecommunications, networking, manufacturing, financial services and defense industries rely on Codenomicon to reduce costly reputation, quality and compliance risks.

Headquartered in Oulu, Finland, with offices in Silicon Valley and Hong Kong, the company markets its testing software and services directly and through international partners.

The Issue: Greater attack velocity, organized cybercrime, service disruptions and strict SLA agreements between the operator and customer have elevated the need for more extensive security and robustness assessment of devices, applications and systems. Security and quality testing at all levels has become a best practice. However, barriers towards developing and maintaining adequate testing methods that help customers stay ahead of the threat still persists in the market. This is due to:

  • Flawed commercial, consumer and corporate applications
  • Increased development and deployment release pressures
  • Shortage of security resources and expertise
  • Increased complexity of systems
  • Unpredictable zero-day attacks, patches and
  • Inherent fragility of new technologies

Codenomicon's objective is to ensure the security and robustness of any application or service implementation. Development and security personnel in a lab or staged environment use Codenomicon DEFENSICS to fortify quality and security assurance - quickly, easily and reliably. The test software offers a systematic blackbox and negative test methodology uniquely capable of revealing undesired behavior and issues in protocol implementations. Codenomicon teams its Protocol Modeling Engine and Attack Simulation Engine with the industry's broadest protocol support covering network, wireless, and digital media. Tens of thousands of pre-built, highly targeted and well-documented test cases allow users to start seeing results as soon as the platform is connected to the target system, accelerating time-to-value In short, if a product or service under test passes DEFENSICS inspection - risk management and quality assurance is strong.