Blue Prism, the provider of the world’s most successful Digital Workforce announced that it is the first and only robotic process automation (RPA) vendor to achieve the highest level of Veracode Verified, a program that validates a company’s secure software development processes. Blue Prism is also the world’s first software vendor to attain Verified Continuous, Veracode’s top tier and its most comprehensive for integrated and mature secure practices.
The Veracode Verified accreditation, issued by one of the leading providers of application security, validates Blue Prism’s ongoing commitment and market leadership in prioritizing security and creating secure software.
With approximately 30 percent of all data breaches occurring as a result of a vulnerability at the application layer, software purchasers are demanding more insight into the security of the software they are buying. The Veracode Verified seal and attestation provides customers with a way to identify the commitment of individual software vendors to ensuring that their products are secure by design. Blue Prism’s Digital Workforce Platform has successfully met the requirements of the Veracode Verified program allowing for better security integration into the development process.
“Blue Prism’s partnership between its security and development teams to ensure secure coding practices was pivotal in the achievement of Verified Continuous,” said Asha May, Director of Customer Engagement at Veracode. “Blue Prism is committed to delivering secure code to help organizations reduce the risk of a major security breach.”
This certification not only validates Blue Prism’s focus on providing an authentically built, enterprise-grade secure solution to this market, but is also part of the company’s intrinsic product development methodology. By completing and passing rigorous testing, the Veracode Verified program moves Blue Prism beyond point-in-time security testing, into a mature application security program that enforces secure development practice across the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
“Enabling organizations to move forward confidently in their intelligent automation initiatives is a keystone of long-term success for RPA vendors,” says Dave Mayer, Principal Analyst, AI & RPA from NelsonHall. “Reaching this level of security certification underscores Blue Prism’s prioritization of data and access security not just as a product feature, but as an ongoing, rigorous process encompassing the complete automation lifecycle.”
When purchasing software, customers and prospects are demanding to understand how secure the software is. As part of Veracode Verified, Blue Prism can now demonstrate that its application has undergone security testing as part of the development practice. Additionally, participating in the program ensures that Blue Prism’s software meets an exceptionally high standard of application security, reducing risk for the customer.
Organizations that have their secure development practice validated, and their application accepted into the Verified Continuous Tier, have demonstrated that the following security gates have been implemented into their software development practice:
- Assesses first-party code with static analysis
- Provides developers with remediation guidance on how to remediate flaws which have been introduced
- Assesses open source components for security vulnerabilities
- Documents through a policy that the application is compliant when there are no vulnerabilities medium or above
- Integrates security tools into development workflows
- Provides secure coding training to the development team and advanced secure coding training to an identified security champion on the development team.
“Blue Prism’s participation in this program provides peace of mind to customers and prospects that our RPA platform meets the highest standard of application security, helping reduce risks while mitigating vulnerabilities,” said Colin Redbond, head of technology strategy for Blue Prism. “It also further highlights our leadership in RPA security and enables us to help organizations support their PCI-DSS, SANS 25, OWASP and CERT compliant processes while meeting the security and governance requirements in the most highly regulated industries.”
About Blue Prism
As the pioneer, innovator and market leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Blue Prism delivers the world’s most successful Digital Workforce. The company’s intelligent digital workers provide government and business leaders with new operational capacity and intelligent skills to automate mission-critical business processes, while meeting the requirements of the most demanding IT environments, where security, compliance and scalability are paramount.
Blue Prism provides a scalable and robust execution platform for best-of-breed AI and cognitive technologies and has emerged as the trusted and secure RPA platform of choice for the Fortune 500 and public-sector market. Billions of transactions and hundreds of millions of hours of work are executed on Blue Prism software robots. For more information about Blue Prism (AIM: PRSM), visit www.blueprism.com