Cigital Announces a Partnership With LeverPoint to Establish Cigital India

Cigital, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in software risk management and data security, has formed a partnership creating Cigital India with a recognized top performer in offshore outsourcing.

Cigital has selected LeverPoint, LLC, an established player with global experience, to provide high-value quality and testing outsourcing services. This new alliance will afford very advantageous cost benefits to clients for specialized software development and both QA and security testing. Cigital India has been named a Top 10 Vendor by the prestigious Black Book of Outsourcing, an annual, independent and non-biased ranking of 4,500 outsourcing companies based on 20,000 user surveys.

Cigital India excels in a number of key criteria important to Cigital clients. First, the company's IT staff has been recruited from top universities for their credentials in engineering, science and technology. The number of tools utilized internally results in a very high degree of process automation, greatly enhancing productivity. Finally, the focus applied to such specific areas as an offshoring mindset, applications knowledge, product development and QA allows the company to closely align with clients as valuable extensions of their own teams. The partnership-centric approach and positive communications methods developed by Cigital India helps clients realize a very high ROI; 92% of client involvement results in repeat or ongoing business.

Todd Bramblett, CEO of LeverPoint, comments on the advantages of the partnership, "We're pleased to have launched this new entity with Cigital. Combining Cigital's 15 years of experience in software quality and risk management for marquee companies, with our own deep expertise in a broad-range of software quality and testing methods, tools and techniques will provide tremendous capacity, capability and value to Cigital's clients."

Raj Singhal, COO of LeverPoint's India operations, says, "Cigital India's software development and QA testing experience allows Cigital to have longer-term associations with their clients because of the cost-savings achieved. Cigital will introduce Fortune 500 client involvement as well as adding their security testing expertise to a portfolio of services."

John Wyatt, President and COO of Cigital, Inc., finds the high quality of the resource and overall savings that can be offered an excellent competitive advantage in the marketplace, "Cigital India enables our clients to take the expert 'White Box' approach to testing processes on a larger scale for our clients for a very cost-efficient, yet high-quality, outcome. This methodology improves the overall quality of business-critical software.

"Now we can offer outsourced security testing as well for companies that require resources for extended engagements." He adds, " Until now this has only been provided by small, niche testing vendors short-term or for a single project. We feel the quality of the engineering and QA particularly is considerably higher via Cigital India than from other sources." Cigital's established team of U.S.-based Managing Principals and Principal Consultants will continue to have project lead and oversight responsibilities, as well as the client reporting interface, for all business done jointly with Cigital India.

About Cigital

Cigital has enabled some of the most well-known companies in financial services, communications, insurance, hospitality and e-commerce to mitigate their software business risks for over a decade. Cigital consultants help companies protect some of their most valuable assets: company information, customer data, shareholder value and brand. Each client's unique requirements are served through a combination of proven methodologies, tools and best practices. Cigital assures the reliable delivery and deployment of software that organizations build, buy and integrate. The company is headquartered near Washington, D.C. with offices in Boston, New York, and Los Angeles.

About LeverPoint

LeverPoint provides world-class global software product development and testing outsourcing services to software companies and software-enabled enterprises across the US and Western Europe. Utilizing its US-based and offshore-based employees around the globe, LeverPoint crafts tight, trusted partnerships with each client with a mix of team members from at least two shores to maximize the cost, speed and quality advantages afforded by the a global delivery model. The company is headquartered outside Washington, DC and has US offices in Boston and New York in addition to its off-shore delivery centers in India, Argentina and Eastern Europe.

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