Burlington, Mass. – June 9, 2010 – Veracode, Inc., provider of the world’s leading cloud-based application risk management services platform, today announced that travel software development leader PcVoyages 2000 Inc. has completed the Veracode security verification process and achieved the VerAfied™ security mark for two of its mission-critical software applications. This mark of security quality demonstrates to PcVoyages’ customers that the third-party applications they rely on to run their businesses have met or exceeded industry standards for security and reliability.
“PcVoyages 2000 is committed to delivering the highest quality and most dependable software to its clients,” said Derek Marinos, marketing and communications director at PcVoyages 2000 Inc. “The travel agencies and tour operators demand we provide the very best service that ensures every core system and operation in a PcVoyages 2000 module is protected. Our customers must be confident about the software they deploy to run their business. This is how independent, third-party validation helped PcVoyages 2000 in its proactive security initiative. Sound, secure software is in everyone’s best interest and the staff at Veracode makes it possible for PcVoyages 2000 to resolve the issues and vulnerabilities that could negatively impact business for us and our clients.”
The PcVoyages applications that have been added to the VerAfied software directory are PcvPayment and PcTour.net™, both considered high-impact applications. PcvPayment is a payment system designed to provide tour operators and travel agencies with secure payment methods that interact with some of the largest and most used payment processing systems in the United States and Canada. PcTour.net is an e-Commerce web reservation system and an essential transactional component for tour operators with B2B and B2C electronic store fronts.
Through its application risk management services platform, SecurityReview®, Veracode analyzes key application security risks including the most prevalent vulnerabilities, the absence and presence of security features (e.g. encryption) and backdoors in third-party software that may lead to insider fraud and cyber-threats. By submitting its applications to a rigorous independent testing using Veracode’s automated static binary analysis and automated dynamic web vulnerability scanning, and resolving all identified severity five and severity four vulnerabilities as based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System, PcVoyages has utilized the most widely accepted and comprehensive methods available to secure its software.
“For software developers like PcVoyages that are delivering business-critical software to power sensitive payment and e-Commerce systems, Veracode provides the most reliable, cost-effective approach to validating application security quality,” said Roger Oberg, senior vice president of marketing, Veracode. “Earning the VerAfied mark is a clear signal to PcVoyages’ customers that the company has embedded security best practices into its development lifecycle.”
PcVoyages 2000 Inc. is a recognized software development leader. Providing the travel industry with everyday business management solutions with products such as TravelWorks accounting and management systems, PcContact for customer relationship management, Sentinel for B2C web management and PcTours for tour operators. For more information please visit www.travelworks.ca or call 1-877-282-4556.
Veracode is the world’s leader in cloud-based application risk management. With patented binary code analysis, dynamic Web assessments and developer e-learning, Veracode SecurityReview® is the most accurate and cost-effective way to independently verify application security in both internally developed applications and third-party software without requiring source code or expensive tools. Veracode provides the most simple, complete way to implement security best practices, reduce operational cost and comply with internal security policies or external standards such as OWASP Top 10, CWE/SANS Top 25 and PCI. Veracode works with global organizations across multiple vertical industries including Barclays PLC, California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), Computershare and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). For more information, visit www.veracode.com, follow on Twitter: @Veracode or read the ZeroDay Labs blog.
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