What Partners and Customers Need

CF: What are your partners and customers’ most pressing needs? And will Synopsys be better able to meet those needs with WhiteHat Security?

VS: One of the things that partners would come back and tell us is they need the capabilities that require essentially automation, that require them to be available as services without a ton of expertise so to speak. And so that’s where WhiteHat really shines, where you can turn to a reliable third party to conduct your testing and give you back extremely reliable findings that you can then use to fix the things that are important versus wasting a lot of your time. And WhiteHat is a pioneer in this business. They started the dynamic application security testing (DAST) market. They are the player that has longstanding customers, who have helped them get that product to the right tuning that you really need. So we are now looking to do that for our partners, our reseller partners, our SI partners, and then as the maturity of the customer dictates, bring our products broadly to them.

We want to give them the complete option of doing it in-house and doing it right at the development phase, all the way into the testing phase, and be able to go and then give the CISO the ability to look at it from a risk management perspective.