WithSecure
Helsinki-headquartered Finnish cybersecurity firm with roots dating to 1988, offering CREST-accredited penetration testing and deep expertise in EU regulatory compliance including GDPR, NIS 2, and TIBER-EU.
- Based in
- Helsinki, Finland
- Founded
- 1988
- Size
- 500+ staff
- Ownership
- Owned by CVC Capital Partners since 2025
- Certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001, ISAE 3000/SOC 2 Type II, CREST, BSI qualified, NCSC recognised
About WithSecure
WithSecure is a European cybersecurity company that sells to managed service providers and midmarket organisations. It offers the Elements Cloud platform, which brings together exposure management, extended detection and response, and co-security services. The company says its products are built in Europe and designed with MSPs in mind. WithSecure works through a co-security model. Rather than outsourcing, it partners with MSPs as an extension of their team, combining local expertise, automation, and round the clock support. Its platform is multi-tenant, so partners can manage every customer, licence, and alert from one dashboard. The company also provides managed security services for partners that do not want to build their own security operations centre. WithSecure states that its solutions meet GDPR, NIS2, and ISO 27001 standards by default. It holds ISO/IEC 27001 certification and has undergone an ISAE 3000/SOC 2 Type II audit. Its incident response team is BSI qualified in Germany, NCSC recognised in the UK, and CREST accredited.
Products
- Elements CloudA multi-tenant platform that combines exposure management, detection and response, and co-security services for MSPs and midmarket customers.
- ElementsAn endpoint protection product managed through the Elements Security Center.
- Exposure ManagementA capability that uses AI-driven detection and continuous monitoring to find threats before they become problems.
- Extended Detection & ResponseA capability that detects and responds to threats across endpoints, identities, and cloud workloads.
Ownership and deals
- Neqst acquired WithSecure for $23mReport on Neqst buying WithSecure (opens in a new tab)
- Patria acquired WithSecureReport on Patria buying WithSecure (opens in a new tab)
Acquisitions come from SecurityWeek's monthly M&A round-ups from 2021 onwards, from Cybersecurity Ventures' quarterly M&A reports for 2020, and a few from Wikipedia lists. Funding rounds from 2022 onwards come from Return on Security's weekly Security, Funded newsletter. These are dated to the month. A few deals added from the news are dated to the day. Smaller deals may be missing. Amounts are in US dollars.