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CODENOMICON DEFENSICS SOFTWARE TEST SUITE WINS PRESTIGIOUS JOLT PRODUCTIVITY AWARD
Dr. Dobb.s announced the winners of the 18th annual Jolt Product Excellence and
Productivity Awards during last week's ceremony at the Software Development West 2008
Conference and Expo, held at the Santa Clara Convention Center.
The Codenomicon DEFENSICS negative test suite was honored with a Jolt
Productivity Award in the highly competitive Security Tools category.
The prestigious Jolt Awards recognize those products that have "jolted the industry with their significance and made the task of creating software faster, easier and more efficient". Winners are selected from among hundreds of qualified nominations by an esteemed panel of judges consisting of industry insiders, columnists and technology leaders.
- This year was an exceptionally exciting year for the Jolts because there were so many strong candidates in each category, said Amber Ankerholz, conference manager for Dr. Dobb's Events. - Codenomicon's selection in the Security Tools category puts it among an elite group of software development innovators.
- As long-time Dr. Dobb's Journal readers, we at Codenomicon are extremely proud to receive the Jolt Productivity Award. It clearly shows we have been building the right product, one that is needed by the industry. The award is especially fitting for us, as our products literally jolt the systems under test. For more than ten years our tests have helped software developers constantly raise the bar in security and implementation quality. Here's to another successful ten years of robustness testing!, said Ari Takanen, CTO, Codenomicon.
The Jolt Awards are presented by Dr. Dobb.s and are sponsored by JOLT Energy drinks. A complete list of the 18th annual Jolt Awards winners is available at www.joltawards.com.
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About Codenomicon
Codenomicon develops preemptive security and robustness testing solutions that let customers mitigate unknown and published threats in products and services prior to release or deployment . before systems are exposed, outages occur or zero-day attacks strike. The Codenomicon DEFENSICS platform is unmatched in its ability to find quality and security flaws within the broadest array of applications. Thousands of developers and security analysts across telecommunications, networking, manufacturing, financial services and defense industries already rely on Codenomicon to reduce costly reputation, quality, compliance and liability risks. Headquartered in Oulu, Finland, with offices in Silicon Valley and Hong Kong, the company sells its testing software and services directly and through international partners. For more information, visit www.codenomicon.com.
