IT services provider Blue Turtle Technologies has signed a partnership agreement with US-based Fortify Software, a security software solutions company, to distribute and support its suite of products.
The partnership will see Blue Turtle distribute Fortify 360, a suite of solutions for software security assurance, to the South African market.
“We identified Blue Turtle Technologies as an organisation with a good reputation in the region that had the types of customers that could benefit from Fortify products,” says David Anumudu, Fortify software security consultant.
“Looking at the industry as a whole, the number of breaches, whether it be money lost, instances of online fraud, or personal information revealed, continues to increase year-on-year,” explains Anumudu.
“The amount of money spent on preventing these types of things has also increased. The traditional approach of using perimeter security in an organisation through firewalls is just not enough anymore.”
According to Anumudu, the problem with firewalls on banking or online shopping sites is that gaps exist to allow customers access to the site. “This opens up opportunities for hackers as well. Once they have access to the application, they begin looking for vulnerabilities in the software that they can exploit to get access to the data.”
He argues that organisations do not address the root cause of most security breaches, which are the exploitable vulnerabilities in the software itself. In the past, finding these vulnerabilities has been time-consuming and difficult, and there is a lot of pressure to minimise time to market, Anumudu adds.
“The market is demanding enhanced security options, especially from the online commerce sector where safeguarding online financial transactions is crucial, and from companies affected by legislation regarding the disclosure of data losses,” he concludes.
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