Now, Veracode is a company that I see as an excellent growth company. I’ve been a fan of theirs since I first met them at RSA 2007. The long and the short of it is that this is a company that does binary analysis of your in-house code. For a fee of course. I had some trepidation at first due to the Patriot Act but, they now have agreements with Canadian firms to help assuage these fears.
Gartner has released a list of five companies that they rate as…well, no easy way to put this but, “cool”. The report from Gartner entitled “Cool Vendors in Application Security and Authentication” has given Veracode the Arthur Fonzarelli seal of approval.
From the press release:
Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.
Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.
OK, phew. Just as long as they don’t try to jump the shark tank on their motorbike.
