American tech giant EPAM Systems is all set to acquire Israeli cybersecurity startup White-Hat. EPAM Systems, a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services, announced its acquisition of White-Hat Ltd on May 4, expanding its comprehensive cybersecurity expertise portfolio.
However, the exact amount of the deal wasn’t announced, but sources close to the development said that tens of millions of dollars and to include both cash and shares in closing the deal. EPAM, which is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and has a market cap of $25 billion, is a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services.
Acquisition to help EPAM to grow stronger
EPAM’s global teams serve customers in more than 35 countries across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. As a recognized market leader in multiple categories among top global independent research agencies, EPAM was one of only four technology companies to appear on Forbes 25 Fastest Growing Public Tech Companies list every year of publication since 2013 and ranked as the top IT services company on Fortune’s 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list in 2019 and 2020.
On the other hand, White-Hat Ltd. is a cyber consultancy employing only highly professional and trained experts, all with the HLS and Israeli security forces background and expertise to keep the highest standards in Cyber Intelligence Consulting Services.
White-Hat delivers tailor-made cyber services across the globe. Their proactive and mission-focused approach meets today’s cyber challenges and anticipates tomorrow’s threats as they arrive by constant source research.
“We’re pleased to welcome White-Hat to the EPAM family. Adding their expertise, methodologies, and team of talented professionals will help our clients design cybersecurity into their applications—at agile speed and cloud-scale—while advancing towards Zero Trust Architecture,” said Sam Rehman, Chief Information Security Officer and Head of Cybersecurity, EPAM Systems.
“As organizations modernize their architectures and applications, their devices, users, applications, and networks become potential breach points, making it imperative to secure infrastructure and protect sensitive data. We’ve increased our cybersecurity investments because security should be as pervasive as the cloud, he added.
Found in 2013, White-Hat, headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, has safeguarded its customers’ businesses using innovative methodologies and an in-depth understanding of the attacker’s mindset and landscape.
Taking an ‘offense as a form of defense’ approach, White-Hat handles some of the most sophisticated attacks in the world for governmental, banking, insurance, aerospace and energy organizations. Their research-based incident response toolsets and methodologies rapidly bring an organization to a full understanding of what happened and how to contain, eradicate and recover—leaving them prepared to respond to the next attack.
“We are excited about this new chapter for our organization. By joining EPAM our employees will have an opportunity to work with many of the world’s leading brands and our customers will gain access to end-to-end digital transformation and platform engineering services,” said Ofer Levinger, CEO at White-Hat, Ltd.
“We are ready to combine our cybersecurity know-how and bring new, innovative solutions to market. Our expertise in Incident Response and Threat Hunting will allow us to rapidly enhance EPAM’s Offensive Security approaches to address the needs of the modern digital enterprise.”
