Atos extends its cybersecurity abilities and strengthens its leadership

Paris, October 13, 2020,

Atos, a worldwide leader in digital transformation, currently announced that it has done the acquisition of digital.security, a subsidiary of Econocom group and a primary unbiased player in cybersecurity in France and BeLux. With this acquisition, Atos strengthens its worldwide cybersecurity solutions and consolidates its primary placement in the industry.

By integrating digital.security’s know-how, with close to 250 extremely experienced consulting specialists and industry experts, and combining it with Atos’ operational implementation and engineering abilities, Atos will boost its end-to-end method for clients. With this acquisition, Atos will go on to winner resiliency and privateness by style and design in supporting customers in their digital journey.

Atos will also profit from a vital asset in the combat from IoT threats and vulnerabilities thanks to CERT-DS, the very first European CERT™ (Pc Crisis Reaction Group) designed by digital.security with a dedicated lab to take a look at the security of IoT units, with hardware to application reverse engineering, de-assembling and radiofrequency signal decoding.

Wolfgang Schwab, Chief Analyst of Cyber Safety Analysis at teknowlogy, claimed: « This acquisition is of mutual fascination. digital.security will gain worldwide attain and scale and will profit from Atos’ know-how and primary rankings in MSS when Atos extends its cybersecurity assets with greater consulting potential and new IoT industry experts – strengthening its end-to-end abilities for clients across all industries and affirming its primary placement in cybersecurity solutions in France and in Europe. With this strategic transfer, Atos also receives an extended vision of details defense, identification governance and cyber threat administration that spans by way of IT, IoT and OT. »

Commenting on the finalization of the offer, Pierre Barnabé, Senior Govt Vice-President, Head of Major Knowledge & Cybersecurity at Atos, claimed: « By welcoming digital.security’s experienced and certified consultants to the Atos groups, we are consolidating our placement as a vital player in cybersecurity in France, in Europe and globally – increasing our abilities at the forefront of IoT threats and vulnerabilities. We are seeking forward to doing the job jointly and the synergy that this will produce to aid our clients. »

« Atos and digital.security share a widespread ambition on security and we are delighted to officially come to be component of the Atos Group currently. Collectively, our aim is to go on our development with this modify in scale and strengthen our cybersecurity winner placement for the profit of our customers and personnel. » claimed Jean-Claude Tapia, President of digital.security.

Satisfy the Atos and digital.security industry experts and consultants at the ‘Assises de la Sécurité’ tradeshow in Monaco from October fourteen-seventeen, 2020.

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About Atos
Atos is a worldwide leader in digital transformation with one hundred ten,000 personnel in seventy three countries and annual earnings of € 12 billion. European quantity just one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Significant-General performance Computing, the Group delivers end-to-end Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Major Knowledge, Small business Applications and Electronic Workplace solutions. The Group is the Throughout the world Data Technologies Husband or wife for the Olympic & Paralympic Game titles and operates less than the brands Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), shown on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The function of Atos is to assist style and design the potential of the information and facts space. Its know-how and solutions aid the development of expertise, training and research in a multicultural method and contribute to the development of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the earth, the Group allows its customers and personnel, and customers of societies at significant to stay, do the job and create sustainably, in a safe and sound and protected information and facts space.

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