Atos to acquire leading cybersecurity services company Motiv

IJsselstein, the Netherlands and Paris, France – December sixteen, 2020

Atos today announces it has arrived at an agreement to receive Motiv ICT Stability, the premier impartial Managed Stability Products and services (MSS) provider in the Netherlands. This acquisition will enhance Atos’ placement as the 3^rd all over the world Managed Stability Products and services provider[one] and broaden its abilities in essential spots these as risk detection and response. In addition, Motiv’s sovereign Stability Operations Centre (SOC), independently licensed at the greatest ranges of maturity, will even more bolster Atos’ substantial network of world-wide SOCs, a pivotal component of the Atos Prescriptive Stability method.

Atos will gain from Motiv’s one hundred eighty+ highly competent cybersecurity specialists, collectively with the Motiv Academy, effectively known for its ability to speedy-keep track of new expertise into SOC operational deployment. This acquisition will also bring extra regional industry information and professional security perception of important benefit to Atos’ operations and buyers.

Atos’ substantial abilities in digital transformation will gain Motiv’s shopper base of extra than 100 substantial and mid-tier buyers in the public sector, law enforcement, economical expert services and health care sectors, when opening new alternatives for Motiv to improve its footprint even more across the Netherlands and Northern Europe. Motiv will also gain from Atos’ the latest expenditure in the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) platform, AIsaac, bringing state-of-the-art technologies to Dutch buyers.

Established in 1998 and headquartered in IJsselstein, Motiv is a chief in MSS and Stability Procedure Centre expert services in the Netherlands.

“Motiv supports Atos’ digital security eyesight for a converged small business-pushed security paradigm, enabled by sovereign ability and shopper intimacy, and produced achievable as a result of its close-to-close security expert services. This strategic acquisition even more confirms Atos’ management in the European cybersecurity industry. Motiv’s keep track of record in expansion, regional know-how and standing in the industry will strengthen Atos’ groups in Northern Europe giving a excellent opportunity to improve the digital security small business.” claims Pierre Barnabé, Senior Government Vice-President, Head of Huge Info & Cybersecurity at Atos. “This enhances the latest in a series of strategic acquisitions to strengthen our regional ability in turning into the essential reliable cybersecurity lover for world-wide organizations on their digital journeys.”

“By joining forces with Atos, we speed up on our mission to aid the safe digital transformation of our buyers, unlocking the full prospective of Atos’ world-wide cyber security services and abilities to our customers”, says Aksel Dorèl, CEO of Motiv. “We are fired up with this significant upcoming action for Motiv, our personnel and our customers”.

The closing of the transaction is anticipated to choose location in Q1 2021 and is subject to customary anti-have faith in filings.

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About Atos

Atos is a world-wide chief in digital transformation with one hundred ten,000 personnel and once-a-year profits of € twelve billion. European quantity one in cybersecurity, cloud and higher performance computing, the group delivers customized close-to-close solutions for all industries in 73 nations. A pioneer in decarbonization expert services and solutions, Atos is dedicated to a safe and decarbonized digital for its clientele. Atos operates below the manufacturers Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), mentioned on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The objective of Atos is to help design the potential of the facts place. Its know-how and expert services aid the enhancement of information, training and investigate in a multicultural method and contribute to the enhancement of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the planet, the group permits its buyers and personnel, and users of societies at substantial to reside, perform and build sustainably, in a harmless and safe facts place.

About Motiv ICT Stability

Motiv is a major Dutch cyber security services provider with in excess of 22 yrs of knowledge. Motiv delivers organizations in the two the public and personal sectors with cyber security solutions and expert services to stop cybercrime, information theft and information leaks. Motiv’s experienced security experts very carefully discover security threats and give progressive solutions that be certain best safe small business processes and purposes. The Motiv Stability Operations Centre (SOC) has been acknowledged as a world-wide chief in impartial external assessments centered on the Stability Operations Maturity Design (SOMM).

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[one]Gartner Industry Share: IT Products and services, Around the globe, 2019, 13 April 2020