MARKET MOVEMENT
IsoMetrix acquired
to create
partnership
with NOSA
management solutions provider NOSA –
another recent Carlyle Group acquisition.
IsoMetrix and NOSA will continue to
operate independently. However, they will
collaborate in developing and cross-selling to
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he Carlyle Group, a global investment
firm with US$223 billion of assets under
management, has acquired a majority stake
in IsoMetrix, a leading Environmental,
Health and Safety (EHS) software vendor,
through their US$698 million Carlyle Africa
(Buyout) Fund.
Madison Park Group served as exclusive
financial advisor to IsoMetrix on the
transaction and existing shareholders and
management retain a significant stake in
the business.
The investment will equip IsoMetrix for
further growth, enabling the company to
compete more aggressively for outright
leadership within the EHS and integrated
risk management software arena through
accelerated software development.
The acquisition also offers synergies with
occupational health and safety (OHS) risk
enterprise clients across mining, oil and gas,
power and transport sectors offering a suite
of technology-enabled managed solutions
designed to address environmental and
occupational health and safety risks.
IsoMetrix has an office in South Africa
and was recently included in the 2019
Verdantix EHS Leaders Quadrant. The Carlyle
Group will support the continued growth
of IsoMetrix and NOSA through its Sub-
Saharan Africa fund and its global network.
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McAfee to acquire NanoSec to enhance cloud security capabilities
level segmentation for detecting and
preventing lateral movement of threats.
Rajiv Gupta, Senior Vice President and
General Manager of the cloud security
business unit at McAfee, said NanoSec’s
technology was a ‘natural extension’ for
McAfee MVISION Cloud. Terms of the
acquisition were not disclosed.
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cAfee, the device-to-cloud
cybersecurity company, has announced
the acquisition of NanoSec, a multi-cloud,
zero-trust application and security platform.
The acquisition will enable
organisations to improve governance and
compliance and to reduce risk of their cloud
and container deployments.
Organisations are increasingly looking
to adopt container technologies to help
modernise legacy applications and create
new cloud-native applications that are
scalable and agile.
The acquisition of NanoSec will
strengthen the container security
capabilities of McAfee MVISION Cloud
and MVISION Server Protection products,
giving its customers the ability to speed
up application delivery while enhancing
governance, compliance and security of their
hybrid, multi-cloud deployments. NanoSec’s
security capabilities will be applied to
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applications and workloads deployed in
containers and Kubernetes and will be
integrated into McAfee MVISION Cloud and
MVISION Server Protection offerings.
These capabilities include continuous
configuration compliance and vulnerability
assessment as well as runtime application-
These capabilities include
continuous configuration
compliance and vulnerability
assessment as well as runtime
application-level segmentation for
detecting and preventing lateral
movement of threats.