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Atos to acquire leading cybersecurity services company Motiv

IJsselstein, the Netherlands and Paris, France – December 16, 2020

Atos currently announces it has attained an agreement to get Motiv ICT Protection, the premier independent Managed Protection Services (MSS) service provider in the Netherlands. This acquisition will fortify Atos’ placement as the threerd worldwide Managed Protection Services service provider[one] and expand its abilities in crucial parts these as threat detection and response. In addition, Motiv’s sovereign Protection Operations Heart (SOC), independently certified at the maximum levels of maturity, will more bolster Atos’ considerable community of worldwide SOCs, a pivotal component of the Atos Prescriptive Protection tactic.

Atos will gain from Motiv’s one hundred eighty+ very qualified cybersecurity professionals, with each other with the Motiv Academy, very well identified for its capability to fast-track new expertise into SOC operational deployment. This acquisition will also convey supplemental nearby industry expertise and expert protection perception of sizeable price to Atos’ operations and clients.

Atos’ considerable abilities in digital transformation will gain Motiv’s client base of more than a hundred big and mid-tier clients in the general public sector, regulation enforcement, monetary providers and health care sectors, though opening new alternatives for Motiv to raise its footprint more across the Netherlands and Northern Europe. Motiv will also gain from Atos’ current expenditure in the Managed Detection and Reaction (MDR) system, AIsaac, bringing condition-of-the-art technology to Dutch clients.

Launched in 1998 and headquartered in IJsselstein, Motiv is a chief in MSS and Protection Procedure Heart providers in the Netherlands.

“Motiv supports Atos’ digital protection eyesight for a converged business enterprise-pushed protection paradigm, enabled by sovereign ability and client intimacy, and made feasible by its end-to-end protection providers. This strategic acquisition more confirms Atos’ leadership in the European cybersecurity industry. Motiv’s track history in development, nearby skills and standing in the industry will improve Atos’ teams in Northern Europe offering a wonderful option to mature the digital protection business enterprise.” says Pierre Barnabé, Senior Government Vice-President, Head of Big Facts & Cybersecurity at Atos. “This enhances the most up-to-date in a series of strategic acquisitions to improve our nearby ability in starting to be the crucial trusted cybersecurity companion for worldwide businesses on their digital journeys.

“By signing up for forces with Atos, we accelerate on our mission to assist the protected digital transformation of our clients, unlocking the whole opportunity of Atos’ worldwide cyber protection company and abilities to our customers”, says Aksel Dorèl, CEO of Motiv. “We are thrilled with this critical up coming move for Motiv, our workers and our customers”.

The closing of the transaction is envisioned to get spot in Q1 2021 and is subject to customary anti-have confidence in filings.

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About Atos

Atos is a worldwide chief in digital transformation with 110,000 workers and once-a-year earnings of € 12 billion. European number one in cybersecurity, cloud and large performance computing, the team offers tailor-made end-to-end solutions for all industries in 73 nations around the world. A pioneer in decarbonization providers and solutions, Atos is fully commited to a protected and decarbonized digital for its clientele. Atos operates under the models Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), mentioned on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The purpose of Atos is to assistance structure the future of the info house. Its skills and providers assist the improvement of expertise, education and research in a multicultural tactic and add to the improvement of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the environment, the team permits its clients and workers, and members of societies at big to dwell, work and acquire sustainably, in a safe and sound and protected info house.

About Motiv ICT Protection

Motiv is a foremost Dutch cyber protection company service provider with about 22 decades of practical experience. Motiv offers businesses in equally the general public and non-public sectors with cyber protection solutions and providers to avert cybercrime, information theft and information leaks. Motiv’s professional protection industry experts thoroughly determine protection challenges and supply ground breaking solutions that ensure optimal protected business enterprise procedures and programs. The Motiv Protection Operations Heart (SOC) has been regarded as a worldwide chief in independent external assessments based on the Protection Operations Maturity Product (SOMM).

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[one]Gartner Market place Share: IT Services, Around the world, 2019, 13 April 2020