Hewlett-Packard’s purchase of Fortify software focuses attention on application security products. Fortify will provide HP with technologies for on-premise testing of applications through all stages of the development process through deployment. IBM and HP are trying to build competitive application security portfolios mostly via acquisition. Analyst: Having tools available from both HP and IBM should lead to more enterprise investments in such technologies. Of the estimated $50 billion that companies spent on security products and services last year, barely $500 million was spent to shore up application security.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2125897/hp-s-fortify-buy-spotlights-app-security-needs.html