April 1, 2008 – ObjectSecurity, a leader in Model-Driven Security Management, received a £30,000 grant from the East of England Development Agency’s (EEDA) Proof of Concept fund, designed to help entrepreneurs define markets for innovative concepts. ObjectSecurity has engaged Gartner, an IT research and advisory company, for a year-long project to provide strategic market insights for its OpenPMF 2.0 technology. ObjectSecurity’s OpenPMF 2.0, noted on Gartner’s 2007 “Hype Cycle for Information Security” for model-driven security, is the first fully developed technology of its kind, facilitating low-maintenance, model-driven security policy management for agile SOAs. Administrators can manage security policies as intuitive models, enabling flexible, automated enforcement across IT environments and detecting breaches. Ed Bowie, EEDA’s finance manager, expressed enthusiasm, stating the fund supports innovative projects like OpenPMF 2.0 to help find successful market routes.