Cybersecurity consultancy Almond continues to shop. After merging with its sister company Rampar, which specializes in integration and managed services, the firm headed by Jean-François Aliotti and Olivier Pantaleo has just completed a new acquisition for an undisclosed sum.
Almond has just announced the acquisition of Amossys, a Rennes-based cybersecurity company with 60 cybersecurity experts that has clients in the public sector, defense and even health. “Almond has thus reached a critical mass of approximately 400 experts able to cover all customer needs, for a turnover of nearly 60 million euros,” the company points out.
Press Release | Almond announces the acquisition of@Amossys and strengthens its positions in cybersecurity. @OlivierPantaleo @ApaxPartners_FR pic.twitter.com/EpnoNv8CAk
— Almond (@almond_consult) February 1, 2023
Positions in the sovereign sector
Beyond the size, the operation should allow the company “to create operational and commercial synergies, to generate productivity gains” and to strengthen itself “on extremely sought-after expertise”, while gaining “strong positions in the sovereign sector,” she adds.
With this takeover, Almond is indeed expanding its range of services. In February 2020, Amossys obtained the Anssi qualification “Information systems security audit service provider” (Passi). The precious label, held by 16 companies, opens up markets for operators of vital importance, these large public and private organizations whose security has been regulated since the military programming law of December 2013.
Dynamic market
Already present in Paris, Nantes, Strasbourg, Lyon and Geneva, Almond is a subsidiary of the Hifield group. Created in 2019 from the merger of NetXP and MP Group, this holding company is supported by Apax Partners Development, its minority shareholder. An investment fund which has also done its own shopping in the cybersecurity market, with a majority stake in the capital of Mailinblack, a specialist in securing professional messaging.
But other companies in the sector are also doing their market. At the end of the year, Orange Cyberdefense had completed the acquisition of two Swiss companies, SCRT and Telsys, while the digital services company Sopra Stera must finalize the acquisition of CS Group by the end of the first quarter of 2023. phenomenon of external growth driven by recruitment difficulties: it is easier to grow by taking out the checkbook directly.