New Security Capabilities

Channel Futures: Is Synopsys gaining more security capabilities and offerings with its WhiteHat Security acquisition?

Synopsys’ Vatsal Sonecha: Absolutely. So if you look at our portfolio, we are squarely focused in the application security space, which is helping developers write secure code, and for people that are deploying code, before they deploy, testing that code and being able to have some trust in the software that’s running in their infrastructure. As you look at this thing, we had very strong static analysis capabilities with [static analysis solution] Coverity. We had extremely strong software composition analysis capabilities with Black Duck. We had interactive application security testing with Seeker. And we had a significant business in the pen testing space, so managed services and things like that.

What we needed was a partnership relationship that was in the dynamic application testing area, and so that’s what we acquired with the WhiteHat acquisition.