With backing from private equity, four cybersecurity companies have combined into one and have set up shop in Northern Virginia.
The New York investment firm Achieve Partners acquired two local firms — McLean-based W@tchTower and Stage 2 Security in Lanham — along with Phoenix-based Mosaic451 and Metmox in Schaumberg, Illinois, over the course of 2022 and has merged them into a new, McLean-based company called UltraViolet Cyber.
The company has been up and running for a few months, though Achieve only announced its launch this week. It has about 400 employees and its CEO is George McKenzie, the former CEO at Stage 2 Security,
“It’s a new company by name,” McKenzie said of UltraViolet, “but, in the aggregate, the companies have been around, somewhere between five and 10 years.”
This is McKenzie’s third go-round as CEO of a cybersecurity company. Before founding Stage 2 Security, he founded Alexandria-based Defense Point Security, which Accenture Federal Services acquired…
Read the full story from the Washington Business Journal.
