UKFast has acquired a cloud and cyber security services provider that works with a host of government organisations.<\/p>\n
UKFast chief executive Lawrence Jones has secured\u00a0the deal to buy Secure Information Assurance (S-IA) following the announcement of a \u00a32.3m investment to bolster his firm\u2019s government data centre space.<\/p>\n
S-IA provides secure cloud hosting and cybersecurity services to the UK MoD, the Cabinet Office and a raft of other government organisations. The move is a further step towards the high-level security services market, just six months after the acquisition of Pentest by Jones\u2019 security business Secarma in July 2016.<\/p>\n
Jones said: \u201cThis deal has been exactly a year in the making. Acquiring S-IA is a strategic move, not only because of its high-profile government clients, but also because of its security product set.<\/p>\n
They are already delivering accredited services from List-X facilities to a number of clients.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a business that\u2019s very much on the rise and the deal was an extremely competitive process, but the S-IA management team sees the clear advantage of partnering with UKFast, seeing the instant scalability of our eCloud platform as the perfect offering for the government.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re bolting on a new level of expertise and technical capability to UKFast\u2019s existing product range, and combined with our exclusively UK-based data centres and best of British service, it\u2019s an offering that other large providers dealing with the public sector simply can\u2019t match.\u201d<\/p>\n