Claranet has written a cheque for an ethical hacking training and penetration testing outfit NotSoSecure.
NotSoSecure was founded in Cambridge, and has offices in San Francisco and India. It supplies ethical hacking training to the Black Hat conferences.
Charles Nasser, founder and CEO of Claranet, said the merger will allow the MSP to gain access to new markets.
“Our acquisition of NotSoSecure has been made as part of our vision to further enhance the security services and expertise that we are able to offer to our customers, as well as gain access to new global markets such as the US and Australia”, he said.
“We are confident that bringing the company into the Claranet Group will be hugely beneficial to the customers that we serve. Its ambitious aims for growth are very much aligned with our own, so we are eagerly anticipating the impact they will have on the success of the wider group.”
NotSoSecure’s founders Dan Haagman and Sumit Siddharth will remain with the outfit.
Siddarth, CTO of NotSoSecure, said: “Since we established the business, the risk of cyberattacks for organisations around the world has grown exponentially. However, this has not been matched by an increase in training and knowledge and, as a result, there is now a severe global skills shortage in cybersecurity. Our strong presence at Black Hat and other leading conferences means that we get a lot of business in the US through word of mouth alone, but I believe that we are just scratching the surface.”
