(Boursier.com) — The Group iliad announces the acquisition of a majority stake in the capital of ITrust, a technology publisher and cybersecurity services company. A pure French player, ITrust is the only player to offer a 100% proprietary and 100% sovereign cybersecurity platform. Drawing on the know-how of ITrust, Free Pro, the ‘B2B’ subsidiary of the iliad Group, is today launching its Cyber XPR offer to democratize cybersecurity among companies.
With expertise developed over the past fifteen years by its R&D team, ITrust offers a unique cybersecurity solution based on artificial intelligence, 100% sovereign and labeled by ANSSI.
Through the quality and reliability of its services, ITrust has earned the trust of more than 400 customers around the world – including 6 CAC 40 companies in France – operating in various sectors, particularly in sensitive areas of activity such as, in France, the Ministry of Defense or around fifty hospital groups signed over the past twelve months.
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By becoming the majority shareholder of ITrust, the iliad Group is pursuing its strategy on the business market and responding to one of the major challenges in the sector today: cybersecurity. Sharing the same values of innovation, simplicity and the entrepreneurial spirit of Free, the founder of ITrust remains a shareholder of the company.
Through this acquisition, Free Pro, a sovereign Telecoms and Cloud services operator, B2B subsidiary of the iliad Group, is consolidating its strategy of supporting all businesses by making technological innovations accessible to them and is today launching Cyber XPR, a unique protection solution against new cyber threats.
Thomas Reynaud, Chief Executive Officer of the iliad Group, declared: “With this acquisition, Free Pro is continuing to develop its service offering for all businesses and local authorities. ITrust intends to be a real accelerator for the Group in this strategic area of cybersecurity. With ITrust, we share the entrepreneurial spirit and the values of innovation.”
Denis Planat, Managing Director of Free Pro, declares: “Faced with the risks of cyber threats, our role is to support companies and communities in the adoption of solutions for the protection of their complete and efficient network and IT infrastructures. With ITrust and the hosting data in our datacenters, we provide our customers with the Cyber XPR solution, the only 100% French solution to guarantee the highest level of protection and total sovereignty.We set ourselves the objective that 100% of our customers , from the small business or community to the largest organization can have a suitable cybersecurity solution with Free Pro. Offering innovation, simplicity and affordable prices remains the credo of our investments for all our customers. This offer is available from today today.”