The Application Security Division of NTT, which has a Top 250 MSSP sister business, has launched The WhiteHat Vantage Platform for developers and security teams. The platform provides security coverage for web applications and API testing across the software development lifecycle (SDLC), the company asserts.The overall goal? Empower developers and security teams to automate application security testing. In addition, the platform consolidates results from layered testing solutions to provide application security insights. Also, a related effort called Vantage Inspect can detect open-source software vulnerabilities in applications, NTT stated.Furthermore, NTT will incorporate intelligence-directed dynamic application security testing (ID-DAST) into its next iteration of Vantage Inspect, the company said. This will give developers the ability to integrate security testing into each step of the SDLC and prevent vulnerabilities from reaching production, NTT indicated.