IBM said Wednesday it agreed to acquire risk management software vendor Watchfire Corp. Financial details were not disclosed. Waltham, Mass.-based Watchfire develops AppScan, Web application ...

IBM liked Watchfire’s Web application security software so much it plans to buy the company for an undisclosed sum, it said Wednesday. Watchfire develops software for identifying vulnerabilities in ...

With Monday's release of AppScan 6.5, Waltham, Mass.-based Watchfire adds Web services vulnerability testing and improved compliance reporting to its flagship application security scanning solution.

WALTHAM, Mass. -- Continuing its lead in web application vulnerability testing, Watchfire today introduced the industry’s most flexible web application security solution, Watchfire® AppScan® 7.5.

AppScan 7.0 brings the ability to pinpoint within applications so-called privilege escalation vulnerabilities, which can give unauthorized users access to sensitive data. In an online banking system, ...