NTT Application Security

Synopsys is acquiring WhiteHat Security, which rebranded to NTT Application Security last year, for $330 million. Synopsys should finalize the acquisition next quarter.

In the meantime, we caught up with Dave Gerry, NTT Application Security’s chief revenue officer and head of global operations, to get the latest scoop from the company.

“First and foremost, we’re still pending regulatory review,” he said. “I’m not an approved spokesman on the deal, so I can’t get into specifics on that side. What I will tell you is that the reception as a whole has been incredibly positive. So we’re really excited about it and we think it’s going to be a really good thing for our partners.”

In the meantime, NTT Application Security continues to sign new partners to its partner program, Gerry said.

“One of the really exciting things is we’ve launched the Vantage platform,” he said. “This now enables our partners to start to wrap their expertise and their services around what we do. For a long time we’ve been a leader in managed application security testing, which means we do all the services for our partners. One of the really big benefits to Vantage is, one, it enables our customers to take a self-service approach for those organizations that want the flexibility to run this themselves and run their application security program themselves. But it also enables our partners to deliver some of those managed offerings. So instead of it just having to be from NTT Application Security, they can also start to do that and incorporate it into their broader application security consulting practice.”

In the months ahead, NTT Application Security is going to continue to double down on product, Gerry said.

“We have an incredibly robust product road map over the next six months,” he said. “We’re really excited for what’s going to come out from a Vantage perspective. We’re continuing to invest in the Sentinel platform and our managed Sentinel platform. But from a partner-led perspective, we’re really excited about what this means for our partners to be able to take services and wrap them around Vantage, and continue to put that in front of more and more customers because it’s just simply another arrow in the quiver of our partners.”