Atos to acquire leading cybersecurity services company Motiv
IJsselstein, the Netherlands and Paris, France – December 16, 2020
Atos right now announces it has reached an agreement to get Motiv ICT Safety, the greatest unbiased Managed Safety Providers (MSS) service provider in the Netherlands. This acquisition will fortify Atos’ situation as the threerd around the world Managed Safety Providers service provider[1] and broaden its abilities in crucial areas this sort of as threat detection and reaction. In addition, Motiv’s sovereign Safety Operations Middle (SOC), independently qualified at the maximum amounts of maturity, will even more bolster Atos’ extensive network of world wide SOCs, a pivotal element of the Atos Prescriptive Safety solution.
Atos will gain from Motiv’s a hundred and eighty+ really competent cybersecurity gurus, with each other with the Motiv Academy, perfectly recognized for its capability to quick-keep track of new talent into SOC operational deployment. This acquisition will also carry supplemental regional sector awareness and professional protection insight of significant price to Atos’ functions and shoppers.
Atos’ extensive abilities in digital transformation will gain Motiv’s customer base of far more than 100 massive and mid-tier shoppers in the community sector, regulation enforcement, money products and services and healthcare sectors, even though opening new opportunities for Motiv to enhance its footprint even more throughout the Netherlands and Northern Europe. Motiv will also gain from Atos’ the latest expenditure in the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) system, AIsaac, bringing state-of-the-art technologies to Dutch shoppers.
Launched in 1998 and headquartered in IJsselstein, Motiv is a leader in MSS and Safety Operation Middle products and services in the Netherlands.
“Motiv supports Atos’ digital protection vision for a converged company-pushed protection paradigm, enabled by sovereign capability and customer intimacy, and produced possible via its finish-to-finish protection products and services. This strategic acquisition even more confirms Atos’ leadership in the European cybersecurity sector. Motiv’s keep track of document in expansion, regional know-how and popularity in the sector will strengthen Atos’ teams in Northern Europe providing a great possibility to grow the digital protection company.” states Pierre Barnabé, Senior Govt Vice-President, Head of Massive Facts & Cybersecurity at Atos. “This complements the most current in a collection of strategic acquisitions to strengthen our regional capability in turning into the crucial trustworthy cybersecurity husband or wife for world wide businesses on their digital journeys.”
“By signing up for forces with Atos, we speed up on our mission to assist the secure digital transformation of our shoppers, unlocking the total probable of Atos’ world wide cyber protection services and abilities to our customers”, says Aksel Dorèl, CEO of Motiv. “We are thrilled with this important subsequent step for Motiv, our workforce and our customers”.
The closing of the transaction is anticipated to just take location in Q1 2021 and is issue to customary anti-believe in filings.
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About Atos
Atos is a world wide leader in digital transformation with a hundred and ten,000 workforce and annual revenue of € 12 billion. European amount 1 in cybersecurity, cloud and significant efficiency computing, the group supplies tailored finish-to-finish alternatives for all industries in seventy three international locations. A pioneer in decarbonization products and services and merchandise, Atos is fully commited to a secure and decarbonized digital for its customers. Atos operates underneath the makes Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), detailed on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.
The intent of Atos is to aid design and style the potential of the info area. Its know-how and products and services assist the enhancement of awareness, education and analysis in a multicultural solution and add to the enhancement of scientific and technological excellence. Across the entire world, the group enables its shoppers and workforce, and associates of societies at massive to dwell, do the job and establish sustainably, in a safe and secure info area.
About Motiv ICT Safety
Motiv is a major Dutch cyber protection services service provider with more than 22 yrs of knowledge. Motiv supplies businesses in equally the community and private sectors with cyber protection alternatives and products and services to protect against cybercrime, facts theft and facts leaks. Motiv’s skilled protection professionals carefully discover protection threats and give modern alternatives that make sure optimum secure company procedures and apps. The Motiv Safety Operations Middle (SOC) has been recognized as a world wide leader in unbiased external assessments dependent on the Safety Operations Maturity Product (SOMM).
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[1]Gartner Market place Share: IT Providers, Throughout the world, 2019, thirteen April 2020
