Entrust Acquires HyTrust

3LS, Inc. Acquires Intrust IT

November 18, 2025

IT Services

3LS, Inc., an employee-owned family of companies based in Nashville, acquired Cincinnati-based managed service provider Intrust IT and will fold the business into its 3LS Professional Services division. The deal expands 3LS's IT capabilities — particularly in managed services, cybersecurity, cloud computing and AI — and makes Intrust 100% employee-owned while positioning the combined business to scale its services nationally.

Sectigo Acquires Entrust Public Certificate Business

January 29, 2025

Cybersecurity

Sectigo has acquired Entrust's public certificate business, a transaction that doubles Sectigo's enterprise footprint and expands its Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) capabilities. The company completed a migration of more than 500,000 certificates to Sectigo Certificate Manager, ensuring continuity for Entrust customers and partners while boosting Sectigo's scale and PQC readiness.

Citrix Acquires deviceTRUST GmbH and strong.network SA to Boost Zero‑Trust Security

December 10, 2024

Cybersecurity

Citrix, a business unit of Cloud Software Group, Inc., announced the acquisitions of deviceTRUST GmbH and strong.network SA to expand zero‑trust access controls and secure cloud development environments. The deals will integrate device posture and contextual access for VDI/DaaS and secure Cloud Development Environments into the Citrix platform and Citrix Secure Private Access.

BeyondTrust Acquires Entitle to Expand Privileged Identity Security with Just-in-Time Access

April 16, 2024

Cybersecurity

BeyondTrust announced a definitive agreement to acquire Entitle, a privilege management solution providing just-in-time (JIT) access and modern identity governance and administration (IGA) across cloud estates. The acquisition adds automated provisioning workflows, self-serve access requests, and 150+ cloud/SaaS integrations to BeyondTrust’s Privilege Identity Security platform, expanding capabilities for PAM and CIEM.

Secure Computing Acquires CipherTrust

July 12, 2006

Cybersecurity

Secure Computing Corp. is acquiring e-mail security vendor CipherTrust Inc. in a transaction valued at roughly $274 million (approximately $195 million cash plus 10 million Secure Computing shares). The deal expands Secure Computing’s Internet gateway security appliance portfolio — incorporating CipherTrust’s IronMail appliances and TrustedSource reputation service — and will move CipherTrust CEO Jay Chaudhry into a Secure Computing executive role.

TruSecure and Betrusted Merge to Form Cybertrust

September 20, 2004

Cybersecurity

Information security firms TruSecure and Betrusted have merged to form a new company called Cybertrust, headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. The combined business will offer risk-management consulting, managed security services and security software, employ about 1,000 people globally with roughly $160 million in annual revenue, and will be led by TruSecure CEO John Becker. Betrusted had been a wholly owned subsidiary of Bank One’s One Equity Partners; details of the transaction were not disclosed.