British insurance major Aon has snapped up Canadian cybersecurity firm Cytelligence for an undisclosed amount.
Cytelligence was founded in 2016 and it offers incident response advisory, digital forensic expertise, security consulting services.
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The acquisition is part of Aon’s strategy to expand its present coverage within the cyber market.
It also offers cybersecurity training for employees to help organisations in better responding to cybersecurity threats.
Cytelligence has offices in Toronto, Ottawa, New York, San Francisco, and Miami.
It employs professionals in cybersecurity and education, investigations, and forensic analytics.
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By GlobalDataFollowing the acquisition, Cytelligence will become part of Aon’s Cyber Solutions business.
Cyber Solutions business includes digital risk management services, security services, professional risk solutions and a global risk consulting practice.
Aon Cyber Solutions CEO J Hogg said: “The Cytelligence team are deep experts in cyber incident response, ransomware mitigation, and cyber security training for employees, which will help cement our position in both North America and globally as an industry leader.”
Cytelligence CEO Daniel Tobok said: “Together, we will deliver complete proactive solutions from risk assessment, cyber risk policy underwriting to secure insurance coverage to protect critical assets, to cyber-breach response, effective and efficient cyber incident remediation, meticulous data collection and data preservation.
“Put simply, everything that is connected to the internet can be compromised. proactive companies and their Boards are preparing now with proactive actions with penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, security audits, and training of their employees.”
