Atos completes the acquisition of digital.security

Atos extends its cybersecurity abilities and strengthens its leadership

Paris, October thirteen, 2020,

Atos, a world chief in digital transformation, today declared that it has accomplished the acquisition of digital.protection, a subsidiary of Econocom group and a top independent player in cybersecurity in France and BeLux. With this acquisition, Atos strengthens its world cybersecurity products and services and consolidates its top posture in the sector.

By integrating digital.security’s knowledge, with all around 250 hugely proficient consulting experts and professionals, and combining it with Atos’ operational implementation and technological innovation abilities, Atos will strengthen its finish-to-finish solution for consumers. With this acquisition, Atos will keep on to winner resiliency and privacy by design and style in supporting consumers in their digital journey.

Atos will also benefit from a important asset in the combat in opposition to IoT threats and vulnerabilities many thanks to CERT-DS, the initially European CERT™ (Personal computer Emergency Response Group) made by digital.protection with a focused lab to take a look at the protection of IoT gadgets, with hardware to application reverse engineering, de-assembling and radiofrequency signal decoding.

Wolfgang Schwab, Chief Analyst of Cyber Security Investigation at teknowlogy, claimed: « This acquisition is of mutual interest. digital.protection will attain world get to and scale and will benefit from Atos’ knowledge and top rankings in MSS while Atos extends its cybersecurity assets with greater consulting potential and new IoT professionals – strengthening its finish-to-finish abilities for consumers throughout all industries and affirming its top posture in cybersecurity products and services in France and in Europe. With this strategic move, Atos also gets an prolonged eyesight of knowledge security, id governance and cyber risk administration that spans by way of IT, IoT and OT. »

Commenting on the finalization of the deal, Pierre Barnabé, Senior Govt Vice-President, Head of Significant Knowledge & Cybersecurity at Atos, claimed: « By welcoming digital.security’s knowledgeable and qualified consultants to the Atos teams, we are consolidating our posture as a important player in cybersecurity in France, in Europe and globally – increasing our abilities at the forefront of IoT threats and vulnerabilities. We are on the lookout forward to doing the job jointly and the synergy that this will produce to assistance our consumers. »

« Atos and digital.protection share a prevalent ambition on protection and we are delighted to officially develop into portion of the Atos Group today. Collectively, our objective is to keep on our enhancement with this change in scale and reinforce our cybersecurity winner posture for the benefit of our consumers and workers. » claimed Jean-Claude Tapia, President of digital.protection.

Meet the Atos and digital.protection professionals and consultants at the ‘Assises de la Sécurité’ tradeshow in Monaco from October 14-seventeen, 2020.

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About Atos
Atos is a world chief in digital transformation with one hundred ten,000 workers in seventy three nations around the world and yearly earnings of € twelve billion. European amount a person in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Large-General performance Computing, the Group offers finish-to-finish Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Significant Knowledge, Small business Purposes and Digital Office methods. The Group is the Worldwide Information Technological know-how Spouse for the Olympic & Paralympic Game titles and operates below the models Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), shown on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The goal of Atos is to enable design and style the future of the facts place. Its knowledge and products and services assistance the enhancement of know-how, training and analysis in a multicultural solution and contribute to the enhancement of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the entire world, the Group allows its consumers and workers, and associates of societies at large to are living, work and produce sustainably, in a secure and secure facts place.

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