Snyk, a Developer Security Company, Has Announced Key Channel Partners to Fuel Growth in APJ

Snyk, the leading developer security platform, has announced major expansion of their partner network in Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). Recognising that partnerships are critical for growth, Snyk is building an entire partner ecosystem that will drive its expansion across APJ including key markets like ANZ, Japan, India & ASEAN. 
 
Channel partners will be provided with the support and resources they need to adopt developer-first tools, and customers are provided with reliable, secure code. Snyk already has global partnerships with all three major hyperscalers – AWS, Google Cloud & Microsoft (Azure). Snyk also has alliances with global technology companies including Atlassian, Docker, HashiCorp, Sysdig, Rapid7 & more.
 
Surging demand for DevSecOps in APJ Partner Network has grown 3 fold in the last 6 months.
 
Enterprises are rapidly digitizing their operations and striving to deliver high-performance, scalable and secure digital services. According to the IDC Worldwide Developer Forecast March 2021, the number of developers to drive digital transformation is expected to grow from 30 million to 45 million by 2025. 
 
In the past two years, there has been an extraordinary rate of digital transformation in APJ. Despite significant digital advances, security remains a major concern for enterprises in the region. The increasing threat landscape is causing an acute demand for secure application development from fintech, banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) and cloud native organizations.
 
Snyk’s developer-first security platform integrates with the technologies that developers use to build cloud-native applications, including their open source code, containers, and infrastructure as code. By automating finding, prioritizing and fixing vulnerabilities, Snyk helps developers and their organizations mitigate risk and increase business efficiency. With the surging demand for DevSecOps in APJ, the region has some of the largest customers for Snyk anywhere in the world, contributing 10-15% of Snyk’s global revenue.
 
Expanding Snyk’s regional footprint 
 
Snyk headquartered in Singapore and has a network of offices in APJ; it recently opened its third office in Japan. The teams in Sydney, Melbourne and New Zealand are growing rapidly, and India is a Q3 focus, with offices opening in Mumbai and Bangalore. Snyk is investing widely in the region and will continue to expand its presence in APJ throughout 2022. 
 
Snyk’s Channel Partner Program: APJ is our key driving force
 
“Snyk is excited to engage, enable and empower millions of developers in APJ,” said Shaun McLagan, Vice President, APJ, Snyk. “We have been significantly invested locally and have the ability to scale with our key partners. APJ is one of the fastest growing areas for Snyk globally and we aim to be the thought leader and market leader for modern DevSecOps.”
 
The Channel partners are at the forefront of Snyk’s APJ strategy. Snyk is focused on collaborating with cloud-centric companies and technology partners that work closely with developers and security teams. Such strategic partnerships offer mutually beneficial opportunities such as leveraging complementary strengths, knowledge sharing and access to wider customer bases; the channel partners can also access sales, marketing and technical resources to accelerate their move into DevSecOps and drive business growth.
 
Snyk’s channel partners in APJ include: ClassMethod (Japan), Datacom (Australia), LAC (Japan), Nextlink (Taiwan), OSBC (Korea), PointStar (Singapore), Versent (Australia). With these key channel partners onboard, Snyk will continue to seek out partners who share the same values and priorities and are committed to empowering developers in building secure code. 
 
More key partnerships in the coming quarters
 
“I am proud to see the key cloud and security partners joining hands with Snyk to provide security development tools in APJ. We only started to invest in building our partner network a couple of quarters ago, and it is an important milestone for our team in the region,” said Pankaj Khushani, RVP for Partnerships and Alliances APJ. “Snyk is a 100% SaaS company working closely with all major hyperscalers. We will continue to grow and invest in our partner ecosystem, and expect to have some key partnership announcements in coming quarters.” Recently, Snyk also announced the global MSSP program and it is an integral part of the overall growth and partner strategy.
 
Partner Quotes 
 
Daisuke Sasaki, Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Classmethod (Japan)
“We are pleased to partner with Snyk and introduce a development environment with advanced security measures to companies in Japan working on digital transformation. ClassMethods is committed to promoting the use of the cloud to software development companies in Japan and accelerating the development and sales of SaaS solutions.We expect that Snyk will play an important role in this initiative.”
 
JP Sikking, Head of Application Security, Datacom (Australia)
“At Datacom, we are trusted by our customers to achieve positive impact through great application software outcomes. Security is a cornerstone of this and Snyk allows us to integrate this as “far left” as possible in the software development cycle so teams can develop quickly and securely. As more businesses look to accelerate their transformation programs while maintaining the right security posture, Datacom is excited to partner with Snyk and help our customers achieve those outcomes.”
 
Itsuro Nishimoto, CEO, LAC (Japan)
“LAC is pleased to announce the launch of Snyk’s services for software developers in Japan. In an era where agile development and DevOps are commonplace while many social infrastructures are digitized, we are confident that Snyk’s products, which reliably improve security during development, will strongly support the promotion of digital transformation in Japan.”
 
Shasta Ho, CEO, Nextlink (Taiwan)
“To customers, DevOps and CI/CD security automation is critical and full of challenges. We believe in partnering with best-in-class vendors to provide a more cohesive response to the Developer teams. That is why we are partnering with Snyk, so we can jointly address the challenges by Snyk’s leading security intelligence research platform and secure customer’s entire development lifecycle to improve developer productivity. We are committed to providing customers with value-added applications with deep technology by bringing SNYK’s solution and more capabilities, to give customers a full range of support services to help customers quickly promote cloud enterprise.”
 
Taek-Wan Kim, CEO & President, OSBC (Korea)
“Through this partnership with Snyk, OSBC can now jointly provide the world’s best solution to find and auto-fix application security issues. We can have better customer protection from application security issues including open source security vulnerabilities.”
 
Justin Lee, CEO of PointStar (Singapore)
“As PointStar expands our team of developers, we hold more conversations about cybersecurity. Our aim to “Make the Future Now” includes investing in cybersecurity. That’s why our partnership with Snyk embodies this commitment to provide an ease of mind to developers to build secure applications and manage risks from the demands of the digital world. We are very excited to work in tandem with Snyk to provide a developer-first approach in security,” Justin Lee, CEO of PointStar.
 
Simon Morse, Security Practice Director. Versent (ANZ)
“As the Practice Director for Security at Versent, I have long believed that the key transformative change that has occurred is the adoption of DevOps and for security to be done well is to be deeply embedded into the DevOps model. Even before we became a Snyk partner, Versent had already recommended and integrated Snyk, particularly around open source projects. As Snyk grows its presence in APJ, Versent is excited to work with them in helping our customers successfully adopt DevSecOps at scale.”