In today’s rapidly evolving and complex threat environment, the cybersecurity industry is reaching a point where scale, comprehensive capabilities, and agility have become essential for protecting businesses. Cyberfort’s recent acquisition of ZDL Group demonstrates more than just business expansion – it points to a fundamental shift in how cybersecurity services must be delivered to meet today’s demands and challenges.
The need for consolidating security services
The cybersecurity sector has always been known to operate fragmentedly; primarily due to the nature in which the industry has evolved. For example, as new digital technologies and platforms developed, more specialised security challenges emerged that required highly focused expertise. This led to a surge of niche providers with very specific deep technical knowledge including network security, endpoint protection, identity management, cloud security and so on.
While a specialised approach of course has its merits, it also creates significant challenges for businesses trying to maintain comprehensive security postures that cover all the security bases required through multiple vendor relationships. The result of this subsequent fragmentation does cause some problems in terms of gaps in security measures between different providers. This in turn creates inconsistent security approaches for businesses whereby internal resources are drained by having to manage multiple security relationships – and maintaining visibility across the security landscape becomes increasingly difficult. Our strategic acquisition of ZDL Group directly addresses these challenges by creating a more comprehensive, end-to-end security ecosystem where clients can access multiple capabilities through one single, trusted relationship.
The scaling advantage
Scale in cybersecurity delivers advantages that smaller, more specialised providers can’t match. Our expanded team of over 40 additional cybersecurity professionals from ZDL will bring diverse experience across sectors and different types of attack techniques, creating a powerful knowledge base that benefits our clients through broader threat intelligence.
By bringing together Cyberfort’s existing strengths with ZDL’s expertise in penetration testing, ethical hacking, and specialised training, we can now deliver seamlessly integrated security programmes to strengthen businesses overall security postures – rather than disconnected services. Greater scale also provides the resources to invest in developing proprietary security methodologies and platforms like ZDL’s Vendor supply chain risk management solution, which will enhance our innovation capacity. The combined entity serves clients across borders while maintaining the agility and responsiveness that businesses need from their security partners, offering international reach with local expertise.
Looking to the future
As we integrate ZDL’s capabilities and continue our strategic growth trajectory, we’re focused on creating a new model for cybersecurity service delivery – one that combines the comprehensive capabilities traditionally associated with large global providers with the agility, innovation, and client focus that independent specialists are known for.
This hybrid model represents the future of cybersecurity services – scaled enough to deliver comprehensive protection but also agile enough to adapt quickly to emerging threats and evolving client needs which in today’s landscape is ever-changing at pace.
By becoming one of the UK’s largest independent cybersecurity providers, we’re not just growing a business – we’re reshaping how cybersecurity services are delivered to create more resilient businesses in an increasingly complex threat landscape.
The cybersecurity industry is consolidating for good reason. Scale, when properly leveraged, creates better security outcomes. Our acquisition of ZDL Group represents our commitment to leading this transformation for the benefit of our clients.
About the Author
Glen Williams the CEO of Cyberfort is responsible for leading the business, driving organic and inorganic growth and developing key customer relationships. Prior to joining Cyberfort he held CEO roles at North and Damovo. Earlier in his career, Glen was a senior leader at Dell, Computacenter and Lenovo.
Glen can be reached online via LinkedIn and at our company website https://cyberfortgroup.com/