QUALCOMM

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Wanting notarization of developers to occur every time they access code within the BREW® environment and also needing robust root key security, QUALCOMM elected to leverage VeriSign® Code Signing Certificates and has since successfully defended the code from all unauthorized developer access.

Since going live we have not had a single unauthorized developer breach our security, which is why our relationship with VeriSign is so strong and long-standing... We have an inherent trust in VeriSign to protect us.

Martin Bennett,
Senior manager of IT,
QUALCOMM Incorporated

Industry

• Telecommunications

Challenges

• It was critical to ensure that the BREW environment did not allow the company’s high standards of trust and integrity to be open to compromise.
• Needed operational physical security for the BREW root key.
• All developers accessing the code base needed to be validated and authorized.

Solution

• VeriSign® Code Signing Certificate
• VeriSign® Document IDs for BREW®
• VeriSign Platinum support

Results

• There has not been a single unauthorized developer security breach.
• The BREW root key is appropriately secured.
• A notarized, time-stamped record is created for all code changes within the environment, creating an auditable history of all activities.