Veracode Wins Wall Street Journal Technology Award

By Alan Harten

The Wall Street Journal’s Technology Innovation Award has been handed to application security testing company Veracode.

The WSJ gives its tech awards to companies or individuals in the medicine, software, the Internet, wireless and consumer electronics industries.

The awards are made for innovation; in Veracode’s case for its applications that scan binary code looking for vulnerabilities in software.

They company claims that the system is just as effective as the old fashioned hand reading of code looking for problems.

A big feature in the WSJ’s decision was the fact that this can be done without the client having to give up their source code, something that many companies are very loath to do.

The company won out over 700 other nominees to win one of the converted awards.

There will be an award dinner on the 21st Oct in California.