Saepio brings Ruptura’s penetration testing skills in-house

LONDON — Saepio, a provider of cybersecurity services and solutions, has announced the acquisition of offensive security specialist Ruptura.

The deal enables Saepio to bring Ruptura’s penetration testing into its suite of services.

Saepio describes the acquisition as a logical next step after its partnership in which Ruptura conducted pen tests for its clients to ensure that Saepio’s cyber security recommendations are resilient and robust.

Tom Heenan, Ruptura’s Founder and Managing Director, will continue to oversee the high quality of penetration testing and will become Saepio’s Director of Offensive Security.

“Ruptura’s team is highly-skilled and our clients have continually been delighted with their work,” Daniel Cardenas-Clark, co-CEO of Saepio. “We are really excited to have the opportunity to bring these capabilities in-house. Ultimately, we are securing our clients’ most critical assets - their systems and their data - and this acquisition enables us to do that even more effectively.” 

Ruptura’s penetration testing skills have been recognized in global industry competitions, with its team being ranked 1st in the UK in the Hack the Box Capture the Flag event for 2023 and 2024, and 14th and 9th in the world, respectively. Saepio’s acquisition brings Ruptura’s Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus solutions and certification body status -- part of the UK government’s certification scheme -- to its clients.

“The expertise that Ruptura has in these frameworks fits well with Saepio’s cyber resilience consulting practice and enables us to offer a fully-integrated compliance and governance solution,” says Cardenas-Clark.

This adds to the solutions that Saepio offers, including its recently-launched Managed GRC (governance, risk and compliance) service. M-GRC automated monitoring, offers real-time compliance status, reduces audit prep time and brings risk policy and control management into a single dashboard.

“Too often organizations are relying on a tangled mess of spreadsheets and manual tracking to keep up with regulatory and security frameworks. Saepio’s M-GRC service removes the spreadsheet fatigue and lets organizations focus on what they do best,” says Cardenas-Clark.