Driven by its security DNA and the quality of its technical know-how, SQUAD chooses Quebec to support its clients in Canada, and to participate in the current turmoil in the new technologies sector in the region. The firm works with large companies in various sectors, including defense, banking and insurance, telecommunications and transport.
“After the successful launch of our activities in Australia, Quebec is a strategic choice that allows us to support our clients in follow the sun thanks to a presence on the three major world plates of North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific ”, emphasizes Antoine Hautin, Deputy Managing Director of SQUAD.
To support its growth, the consulting and expertise firm intends to recruit numerous experts in the coming months. Its objective is to strengthen its teams in all cybersecurity professions: ethical hackers, SOC analysts, engineers specializing in network and system security, security architects, and others. SQUAD has cultivated its attractiveness since its inception to convince the best talents to join them.
“Expertise and friendliness are at the very heart of our project. We differentiate ourselves in our market by the proximity that we maintain with our teams. We will apply in Canada the key which made our success in France: placing our experts at the center of the machine ”, indicates Marc Brua, co-founder and CEO of SQUAD.
“Montreal’s strategic positioning offers many advantages to European companies seeking to establish themselves in the North American market. Our team is alongside SQUAD, so that it has all the necessary tools to propel its growth and achieve its ambitious goals. Our technological ecosystem is solid and players in the field of cybersecurity can be convinced to find everything they need to develop and evolve their ideas ”, mentions Hubert Bolduc, President of Investissement Québec International.
“I am delighted that Greater Montreal can serve as a bridge between Europe and Australia! “, highlighted Stéphane Paquet, President and CEO, Montréal International. “In fact, more and more, the region is becoming essential for companies wishing to invest in cybersecurity; it offers one of the largest playgrounds in the world for testing new solutions. This can be explained, among other things, by Montreal’s know-how in artificial intelligence, a field closely linked to digital security, but also by the pool of specialized and highly qualified labor that we find there. “
After a year 2020 marked by new performances and the arrival in the capital of the investor ABENEX, SQUAD is accelerating its growth with the planned opening of three new branches in France (Bordeaux, Lille and Brest) and new countries in Europe ( Germany, Benelux). The group is getting closer to its goal for 2025: to become the European leader in cybersecurity and DevSecOps.
About Squad
Present in Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Aix-en-Provence, Sophia-Antipolis, Nantes and Rennes as well as in Adelaide in Australia, Squad is a consulting group specializing in the cybersecurity and DevOps segments.
Created in 2011, the group plans to bring together more than 700 consultants by the end of 2021, for a turnover of 65 million euros, which it plans to triple to reach 200 million in turnover in 2025. The The group owes its success to a very strong specialization in IT security and DevOps issues, and to the strong links it has forged with a clientele mainly made up of large groups.
In 2020, SQUAD obtained the PASSI qualification, issued by ANSSI (French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems), testifying to the high technical level of the teams and the daily commitment of Squad in securing systems and infrastructure of its customers.
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