ACI Learning Acquires Infosec Learning

Cengage Group Acquires Infosec

January 31, 2022

Education

Cengage Group agreed to acquire Infosec, a cybersecurity education and training provider, for $190.8 million. The deal brings Infosec into Cengage’s Workforce Skills business to expand its cybersecurity professional training offerings, increase recurring revenue, and reach more learners and enterprise customers; the transaction was expected to close in Q1 2022 subject to customary conditions.

Boathouse Capital-backed ACI Learning Acquires ITProTV

October 31, 2020

Education

Boathouse Capital–backed ACI Learning has acquired ITProTV to expand its audit, cybersecurity and IT learning offerings. ACI Learning will integrate ITProTV’s people, content/IP, production capabilities and customer contracts while retaining the ITProTV brand, increasing the combined platform’s reach to more than 250,000 professionals globally.

Acendre Acquires ICS Learning Group

May 20, 2019

Cloud & SaaS

Acendre, a provider of secure cloud-based talent management software, has acquired ICS Learning Group, a Pasadena, Maryland-based provider of e-learning solutions and the Asentia LMS. The acquisition integrates ICS’s LMS and custom courseware capabilities into Acendre’s talent management platform to offer a unified, end-to-end SaaS solution for regulated industries.

OPSWAT Acquires CIP Cyber

April 3, 2024

Cybersecurity

OPSWAT, a global leader in critical infrastructure cybersecurity, has acquired CIP Cyber, an online learning community focused on training and certifying cybersecurity professionals for IT and OT/ICS environments. The acquisition integrates CIP Cyber into OPSWAT Academy, creating a combined community of about 250,000 users and expanding OPSWAT’s training and certification offerings to 31 courses aimed at closing the cybersecurity skills gap for critical infrastructure.

CyberRisk Alliance Acquires InfoSec World Conference & Expo from MIS Training Institute

February 26, 2019

Media & Entertainment

CyberRisk Alliance, a PE-backed B2B media and events startup led by Doug Manoni, has acquired the InfoSec World Conference & Expo from MIS Training Institute in a carve-out divestiture. The acquisition transfers the event and its staff to CyberRisk Alliance as the new owner — a capability- and community-building move supported by Growth Catalyst Partners.

Keyfactor Acquires InfoSec Global and CipherInsights

May 20, 2025

Cybersecurity

Keyfactor has acquired InfoSec Global, a cryptographic posture management leader, and CipherInsights, a cryptographic discovery solution from Quantum Xchange, to expand its cryptographic discovery, monitoring, and quantum-safe readiness capabilities. The acquisitions consolidate discovery, inventory, and remediation capabilities with Keyfactor's certificate lifecycle management and PKI solutions to give customers end-to-end cryptographic observability and crypto-agility.