Kramer Levin Advises Atos on the Acquisition of Digital Security, a Subsidiary of the Econocom Group

Kramer Levin advised Atos on the acquisition of Digital Security, a subsidiary of the Econocom group and a leading independent player in cybersecurity in France and BeLux. With this acquisition, Atos strengthens its global cybersecurity services and consolidates its leading position in the market.

Atos is an international leader in digital transformation, with 110,000 employees in 73 countries and an annual turnover of €12 billion. A European leader in cloud, cybersecurity and supercomputers, the group provides integrated solutions for Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Big Data, Business Applications and Connected Work Environment. Combined with Atos’ operational capabilities and technologies, Digital Security’s 250 qualified experts and consultants will reinforce the end-to-end approach of the Atos group, supporting its customers at all stages of their digital journey. Furthermore, this approach will continue to promote resiliency and privacy by design.

Atos will also benefit from a key advantage in the fight against IoT threats and vulnerabilities, thanks to the CERT-DS that Digital Security developed. It is the first European CERT™ (Computer Emergency Response Team) equipped with a laboratory to test the security of IoT devices — in particular, through hardware and software reverse engineering capabilities and the disassembly or decoding of radio frequency signals.

Atos was advised by Kramer Levin with a team made up of partner Alexandre Omaggio and associate François-Xavier Beauvisage.