Fortify Software Wins SC Magazine Reader Trust Award For Best Security Software Solution

Palo Alto, Calif. - February 9, 2007 - Fortify Software Inc., the market-leading provider of security products that help companies identify, manage and remediate software vulnerabilities to mitigate enterprise security risk, has won a 2007 Reader Trust Award in the10th annual SC Magazine Award program for outstanding achievement in information-technology (IT) security. Fortify Source Code Analysis (SCA) 4.0 was named the Best Security Software Solution at a gala ceremony held in San Francisco in conjunction with the recent RSA Conference, the world’s leading information-security event.

Fortify SCA was among nearly 400 entries submitted in 20 technology categories. Winners in the SC Magazine Awards Reader Trust program are based on voting by more than 9,000 of the publication’s readers.

“As we witness more and more incidents of data theft and exposure, it becomes obvious that our IT security practitioners and companies that support them are critical in today’s business world,” says SC Magazine Editor-in-Chief Illena Armstrong.

“We’re honored to be selected as a winner for the SC Magazine Reader Trust Awards,” said Barmak Meftah, Vice President of Product and Services, Fortify Software. “This award and Fortify’s adoption as the defacto standard for so many of the world’s leading organizations, including those with the largest and most complex code bases, is a gratifying validation for Fortify and its market as awareness of the need for proactive software security measures increases.”

Fortify SCA 4.0, released in October 2006, is the most widely used and effective solution to find and fix software vulnerabilities at the root cause early in the development cycle. Its advanced features help developers identify and resolve issues with less effort, while enabling security leads to review and prioritize more code in less time. Fortify SCA supports a wide variety of languages, frameworks and operating systems and delivers depth and accuracy in its results. It can be tuned to be comprehensive when completeness is needed or extremely targeted for day-to-day use. Fortify SCA makes triage, audits and remediation fast and effective for any organization.

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About Fortify Software, Inc.

Fortify Software products protect companies from the threats posed by security flaws in business-critical software applications. Its software security products, Fortify SCA, Fortify Manager, Fortify Tracer and Fortify Defender, drive down costs and security risks by automating key processes of developing and deploying secure applications. Fortify Software's customers include government agencies and Fortune 500 companies in a wide variety of industries such as financial services, healthcare, e-commerce, telecommunications, publishing, insurance, systems integration and information management. The company is backed by a world-class team of software security experts and partners. More information is available at www.fortifysoftware.com.

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