Atos completes the acquisition of Paladion

Strengthening Atos’ management in cybersecurity with new worldwide Managed Detection & Response capabilities

Paris, October twelve, 2020,

Atos, a worldwide leader in digital transformation, now declared that it has done the acquisition of Paladion, a US-dependent worldwide company of Managed Safety Providers. As the quantity 1 in Europe and quantity 3 around the world in cybersecurity expert services, Atos proceeds to develop its cybersecurity possible, notably by welcoming a lot more than 800 Paladion employees and cybersecurity gurus.

Finishing Atos’ existing proficiency to foresee, handle and react to cyber threats, this acquisition will deliver essential Managed Detection & Response (MDR) capabilities – which shoppers require as they are adopting hybrid and multi-cloud transformation tactics for their businesses – to the Atos portfolio, with numerous MDR centers.

It will also grow worldwide protection for cybersecurity checking and reaction with four further Safety Operations Facilities (SOC) in the US, the Center East and India.

Finally, it will enable the creation of the upcoming generation of Atos’ Prescriptive SOC presenting by integrating Paladion’s condition-of-the-art AIsaac synthetic intelligence (AI) system for cyber analytics and hybrid SecOps. This SaaS product for multi-vector danger detection and reaction is a patented technology with about a thousand use instances and one hundred AI styles.

Claudio Stahnke, Senior Research Analyst for Safety Providers at IDC mentioned: “Atos’ acquisition of Paladion will not only support grow Atos’ stability expert services presenting but, by incorporating the AI capabilities that Paladion champions, essential metrics these kinds of as the suggest time to react (MTTR) to attacks will also see sizeable enhancements. Packaging Paladion’s MDR service into Atos’ existing MSS offerings could be the activity changer in the marketplace.”

“The acquisition of Paladion is aspect of our technique to grow our cyber capabilities and technologies to support our shoppers meet the stability worries they facial area. Shoppers on both equally sides recognize the capabilities the merger provides and we’re confident that we are ideally positioned to speed up our small business.” mentioned Pierre Barnabé, Senior Government Vice-President, Head of Massive Info & Cybersecurity at Atos, commenting on the finalization of the offer.

“Paladion has been a pioneer in AI-driven managed detection and reaction expert services. Our cloud-indigenous AI system, AIsaac, provides multi-vector danger analytics, car-containment and incident reaction orchestration to shoppers for hybrid cloud and datacenter environments. We are excited to be a part of Atos to advance these capabilities via their R&D in AI, danger, and possibility-dependent analytics.” mentioned Rajat Mohanty, CEO of Paladion.

Headquartered in Reston, VA, United States, Paladion was launched in 2000. The founders will keep on to perform an active part in the decades to appear.

With this acquisition, Atos strengthens its worldwide cybersecurity expert services, as introduced in its mid-term Ambition, with the total purpose of becoming the leader in protected and decarbonized digital, achieving a lot more than €2bn profits in digital stability in the mid-term and finishing its existing technologies.

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