OREANDA-NEWS. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (abbreviated to NTT; Head Office: Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo; President: Hiroo Unoura) has informed NTT Com Security AG (abbreviated to NCS; Head Office: Ismaning, Germany; CEO: Frank Brandenburg) of its intention to enter into negotiations regarding a merger of NCS onto NTT Communications Deutschland GmbH, a 93.01% shareholder of NCS and wholly-owned subsidiary of NTT in Germany, and thereby acquire the remaining shares in NCS against adequate cash compensation. Prior to this proposal, NTT has made NTT Communications Deutschland GmbH, formerly an indirectly-owned subsidiary under NTT Communications Corporation, a directly-owned subsidiary of NTT.

1.Strategic Intent

In anticipation of an increasing demand across our existing client base and the wider market, NTT’s intent is to deliver a step change in the level of investment and development of services required to meet the constantly evolving threat landscape across cyber space. NTT’s strategic intent is to continue to develop and provide world class security services for our clients in a continually changing market.

For NTT’s clients, we will bring together the combined power of the security platforms of NCS, Solutionary, Dimension Data, and the NTT Innovation Institute to provide a more holistic security offering. Over the coming years NTT will increase investments in developing a broader IT security value proposition to take to market through NTT’s subsidiaries such as Dimension Data, NTT Communications and NTT Data. The significantly enhanced level of security service will span the full network layer: from infrastructure to applications, and cyber-defense, supported by information and communications technologies.

2.Company profiles

Summary of NTT Com Security

(1)Corporate name : NTT Com Security AG
(2)Head of Office : Ismaning, Germany
(3)Foundation : 1993
(4)CEO : Frank Brandenburg
(5)Number of Employee : 840
(6)Business summary : Offering total IT security solutions/services (sales and maintenance of security hardware and software, consulting for risk management and security system design, managed security services(MSS))

Summary of NTT Communications Deutschland

(1)Corporate name : NTT Communications Deutschland GmbH
(2)Head of Office : Germany
(3)Business summary : Specific purpose company to own shares of NCS

Summary of Solutionary

(1)Corporate name : Solutionary, Inc.
(2)Head of Office : Nebraska, United States
(3)Foundation : 2000
(4)CEO : Steve Idelman
(5)Number of Employee : 300
(6)Business summary : Offering IT security services (Consulting for security system design and security management, managed security services(MSS))

Summary of Dimension Data

(1)Corporate name : Dimension Data
(2)Head of Office : Johannesburg, South Africa
(3)Foundation : 1983
(4)CEO : Brett Dawson
(5)Number of Employee : 30,000
(6)Business summary : Offering total IT solutions/services in 58 countries all over the world (sales and maintenance of IT hardware and software, consulting, IT outsourcing, Cloud services, managed services)

Summary of NTT Innovation Institute

(1)Corporate name : NTT Innovation Institute, Inc.
(2)Head of Office : California, United States
(3)Foundation : 2013
(4)CEO : Nina Simosko
(5)Number of Employee : 40
(6)Business summary : Research and Development in security, cloud computing, etc.

Summary of NTT Communications

(1)Corporate name : NTT Communications
(2)Head of Office : Tokyo, Japan
(3)Foundation : 1999
(4)President : Tetsuya Shoji
(5)Number of Employee : 6,500 (21,500 in NTT Com Group)
(6)Business summary : Telecommunications, etc.

Summary of NTT Data

(1)Corporate name : NTT Data
(2)Head of Office : Tokyo, Japan
(3)Foundation : 1988
(4)President : Toshio Iwamoto
(5)Number of Employee : 11,100 (76,600 in NTT Data Group)
(6)Business summary : IT system integration, etc.