(Hewlett-Packard: Cupertino, California) -- Hewlett-Packard has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SPI Dynamics Inc., a provider of Web-application security assessment software and services.
Application quality management ensures that business systems, such as E-commerce Web sites or financial and supply-chain applications, function well without performance issues.
SPI Dynamics technology is already integrated with HP Quality Center software and enables customers to assess and identify security vulnerabilities along the entire life cycle of Web applications. Customers can also use SPI Dynamics software to validate application security and quality after deployment and to meet auditing and compliance requirements, such as Sarbanes-Oxley.

Failure to test and remediate security defects or vulnerabilities before a business application goes into production leaves confidential information within a business-critical application at risk for security attacks and misuse.

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