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Micro Focus, Gold Partnership Announcement

Publication date

13.02.2020

A synergy to improve the security of your applications and data.  Learn more about our partnership. 

To support organizations in addressing digital and cyber challenges, Approach and Micro Focus recently formed a gold partnership. This partnership emphasizes application and data-centric security solutions, focusing on protecting users, applications, and private data.

By safeguarding applications and maintaining compliance with data security regulations, organisations can build trust with employees, customers, and partners. Approach combines its extensive cyber security and secure development expertise with Micro Focus’ innovative security solutions to deliver robust protections.

Together, they ensure that applications undergo secure development and testing at every stage of the Secure SDLC. Customers also benefit from data protection throughout its lifecycle across cloud, on-premises, and mobile environments through data-centric security measures like encryption and tokenization.

Wim de Smet, CTO of Approach, explains, “Application security is now a universal challenge for organizations, regardless of size or industry. With Fortify’s advanced capabilities, we enhance our application security solutions by embedding security gates into all Secure SDLC stages. Whether customers are developing or maintaining software, we can secure their applications with greater efficiency and automation.”

Serge Biondini, Partner Business Manager at Micro Focus for Belgium and Luxembourg, adds, “The Fortify suite provides end-to-end application security solutions, offering flexibility to test both on-premises and on-demand. This comprehensive approach covers the entire software development lifecycle. Approach, with its secure software development expertise, is the ideal partner to integrate our innovative solutions and efficiently protect customer applications.”

OTHER RESOURCES

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European collaboration puts cyber-physical asset readiness, trusted testing and operational resilience to the test.
The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is coming, and for many organisations, the first and most urgent question is simply: does this apply to us, and if so, where do we start?

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