Penten and UK’s Amiosec form PentenAmio

Cyber security services provider Penten has completed its merger with the UK-based Amiosec to form PentenAmio, providing secure mobile communications, AI-enabled cyber defence and electronic deception technologies.

Announced in October last year, the combined business has 300 security-cleared professionals and sovereign facilities in Australia and the UK, with a focus on government and military organisations.

ARN understands there were no redundancies as part of the merger.

Prior to the merger, Penten developed its own security solutions and was a distributor, integrator and support services provider in Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) for Amiosec.

The combined business will generate more than $125 million in annual revenue with high growth rates and strong gross profit and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) margins, the company said.

Headlining the new business will be Penten and Amiosec founders Matthew Wilson and Adrian Cunningham, respectively, as executive co-chairs.

Former Penten CFO Sarah Bailey will be CEO of PentenAmio Australia and ex-NCC Group senior vice president of the UK market Matt Thomas comes on board as PentenAmio UK CEO.

Bailey steps into the role vacated by Greg Barsby, who will support the combined business as a strategic advisor.

“This is a strategic union of two high-performing businesses with shared values and complementary technologies,” Bailey said. “We are now uniquely positioned to deliver the future of secure mobility and cyber defence — at speed, at scale and with sovereign assurance.”

PentenAmio’s technology stack includes proprietary technology intellectual property (IP), with scalable encryption and description solutions deployed in classified environments by more than 20 national security and defence organisations across the UK, Australia and Canada.

Some of its solutions include its AltoCrypt mobility platform for secure, sovereign mobile access to classified networks across multiple devices, and its AI-powered deception suite, which includes TrapRadio.

The company plans to expand its reach into NATO-aligned jurisdictions and will be actively evaluating opportunities for strategic partnerships and market entry across NATO and other Five Eyes-aligned countries.

The combined business will invest further into research and development (R&D), talent and global reach.

“This merger will help us provide our customers with the agility and innovation which they need, wherever they are in the world,” said Cunningham. “By joining forces we give ourselves, our nations and their allies access to an unrivalled breadth and depth of expertise across secure communications and beyond.”

Wilson said that the merger comes at a moment of global inflection, saying that “rising geopolitical tension and increasing digital threats demand transformative technology responses. PentenAmio is purpose-built to meet this demand leveraging scalable, sovereign deep tech solutions.”

He added that the business built its tech stack not just on convenience, but on “control, assurance and mission readiness”.

“PentenAmio is helping governments move beyond compromise — ensuring that classified work stays protected, mobile and sovereign,” he said.