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YesWeHack Completes First-ever Acquisition with Purchase of Sekost, French Cybersecurity Audit Specialist
YesWeHack, the global Bug Bounty and vulnerability management platform, has announced the acquisition of Sekost, an innovative player in the cybersecurity auditing space. This marks YesWeHack’s first-ever purchase of another organisation.
This acquisition also represents a major strategic step for Sekost, which can now leverage YesWeHack’s international reputation and commercial strength to enhance its offerings for SMEs and accelerate its expansion. Both Sekost and YesWeHack have enjoyed rapid growth in recent years. Sekost’s revenue has doubled in each of the past two years, while YesWeHack has been rapidly expanding for more than a decade.
A natural alliance built on shared values
YesWeHack and Sekost share a common history: Christophe Hauquiert, CTO and co-founder of Sekost, was a longstanding ethical hacker on the YesWeHack Bug Bounty platform. YesWeHack then became one of Sekost’s first clients, and the two companies established a technological partnership through which they integrated Sekost’s services into the YesWeHack platform.
YesWeHack and Sekost can now unite under a shared vision: combining innovation and technical excellence to deliver straightforward solutions with actionable, tangible results. They are also guided by common values and a culture built on hacking and offensive security, transparency and a human-centred DNA.
Exceptional potential to unlock
As part of YesWeHack, Sekost will maintain its autonomy while gaining access to new resources that can accelerate the development of its offerings for SMEs.
Through this acquisition, Sekost will benefit from:
- YesWeHack’s commercial strength and international reputation
- Operational reinforcement through the cross-functional expertise of Europe’s leading Bug Bounty platform
- Preferential access to new strategic markets and YesWeHack’s global enterprise clients
- Product convergence combining continuous diagnostics and ASM (Attack Surface Management) for even more comprehensive attack surface coverage
Concrete benefits for clients
- An accelerated product roadmap, with a new continuous monitoring solution planned by the end of 2025 and integrated support for NIS2 compliance starting in 2026
- Enhanced support, greater scalability and an improved customer experience at all levels
- New distribution channels via a shared platform and an expanded YesWeHack solutions offering
- An enriched offering for YesWeHack clients through Sekost solutions and tangible synergies within the YesWeHack platform
Guillaume Vassault-Houlière, CEO and co-founder of YesWeHack, states:
“This merger brings together two cultures aligned around a common ambition: to provide the most advanced solutions to protect organisations of all sizes in a constantly evolving digital environment. It is also YesWeHack’s first acquisition, and we are delighted to contribute to the growth of a high-potential French company, which will remain based in France.”
Léo Richer, CEO and co-founder of Sekost, adds:
“YesWeHack was first a client, then a partner, and today we take a historic step together. With YesWeHack, we go further and faster without losing our identity. Joining forces with one of the finest French cybersecurity companies is an extraordinary opportunity for our clients and our growth, and it marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for our entire team.”
SOURCE: YESWEHACK
