The Swiss companies SCRT and Telsys, acquired by Orange Cyberdefense in 2022, have officially been rebranded as Orange Cyberdefense Switzerland. This change strengthens Orange Cyberdefense’s ambition to become the market leader in cybersecurity in Switzerland—where the business grew more than 20% in the first half of 2023—and to expand its leadership across Europe by 2027.
The integration leverages the combined strengths of SCRT (ethical hacking, incident response, managed services and consulting), Telsys (infrastructure, networking, datacenter and cloud services) and Orange Cyberdefense (24/7 operational capabilities, managed services and global threat intelligence).
Orange Cyberdefense, one of Europe’s leading cybersecurity service providers, accelerated its Swiss expansion after acquiring SCRT and Telsys in November last year. The two sister companies, headquartered in Morges (VD) with roughly 100 cybersecurity experts across Morges, Geneva, Bern and Zürich, now operate under the Orange Cyberdefense name.
Over the past four years Orange Cyberdefense has acquired and integrated four companies, reinforcing its strategy to be the leading European cybersecurity provider by 2027. On a European market that grew by 9%, the organization recorded global growth across all its activities in its most recent fiscal year, reaching revenue of €977 million. More broadly, revenues have increased fivefold over the past eight years.
Switzerland: Europe’s 7th largest cyber market
Bringing SCRT and Telsys together under the Orange Cyberdefense brand will enable full exploitation of the growing synergies between cloud and cybersecurity expertise. In Switzerland, Orange Cyberdefense will expand its secure cloud portfolio, providing comprehensive support to businesses and public institutions while strengthening capabilities in backup and recovery. Customers will benefit from security solutions designed to meet the highest market standards, supported by Orange Cyberdefense’s threat intelligence and international experience.
These offerings target companies and public authorities across French- and German-speaking regions of Switzerland, with particular focus on the financial services sector—a sector that has experienced an 11% global rise in ransomware incidents this year.
Thanks to synergies with Orange Business, Orange Cyberdefense Switzerland can support multinational companies and international organizations across the globe. The impact of the new organization is already visible: cybersecurity activities grew nearly 20% in the first half of the year, generating CHF 25 million in revenue on the Swiss market.
Orange Cyberdefense’s recruitment strategy—aimed at building the largest cyber community in Europe—will be gradually implemented in Switzerland to strengthen teams and meet customers’ diverse and growing needs.
“In a cybersecurity market undergoing consolidation, our ambition is to expand internationally and become the European leader by 2027. I am therefore very pleased to welcome the SCRT and Telsys teams under the Orange Cyberdefense brand, whose values of excellence, proximity, ethics and trust we share. Together, Orange Cyberdefense now fields the largest ethical hacking team in Europe, with more than 220 experts. That’s a concentration of talent dedicated to making the digital world safer,” explains Hugues Foulon, CEO of Orange Cyberdefense.
“The integration of SCRT and Telsys into Orange Cyberdefense, a European cybersecurity leader, marks a major milestone in our company’s history, and I am proud of it. Through our shared values, we take the opportunity to expand our capacity to prevent, detect and analyze threats more effectively, to strengthen our cyber and infrastructure services, and to grow our activities and services across Switzerland,” emphasizes Nicolas Lutz, CEO of Orange Cyberdefense Switzerland since January 2023.
- Nicolas Lutz has been CEO of Orange Cyberdefense Switzerland since January 1, 2023.
- In 2004 he joined content security firm Trend Micro, becoming head for Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, and later head of French-speaking Switzerland and Africa.
- In 2010 he joined Blue Coat as sales manager for Île-de-France and head of the French-speaking area in Africa.
- In 2012 he continued his career at Telsys, a systems integrator in French-speaking Switzerland, as commercial director and shortly thereafter became majority shareholder. To develop and grow the business he sold Telsys to SCRT, a leading pentest and cybersecurity firm. Since Orange Cyberdefense’s acquisition, he has served as CEO of both entities.