Byres Research and exida merge
Another Byres company, Byres Research Inc., has merged with exida to form the world’s first company offering functional safety and security certification and consultation.....
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DETAILS:
Another Byres company, Byres Research Inc., merged with exida in March, 2009 to form the world’s first company offering functional safety and security certification and consultation. Eric Byres is the CTO of Byres Research Inc., now under the umbrella of exida.
exida is a certification and research firm specializing in safety and high availability automation systems. Byres Research Inc. is a leader in critical infrastructure security.
"We are pleased to welcome Byres Research Inc. into the exida family," said John Cusimano, exida director of security services. "This merger represents a major step in bringing the safety and security communities together with a common goal of helping to protect our critical facilities."
SUMMARY OF PRESS COVERAGE:
Control Global, May 17, 2009
...and merges with Byres Research, but not Security
"Hardly was the ink dry on the exida-Wurldtech agreement when the arguably even more significant news reached us of the merger of exida with Byres Research, one of the two companies set up by cybersecurity pioneer Eric Byres and his wife Jeann some three years ago when they left the original mecca of industrial cyber terrorism research, the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) in Vancouver, Canada...."
Automation World, April, 2009
Safety Specialist exida Bulks Up on Cyber Security Services
"The most recent announcement came on March 31, when exida unveiled its acquisition of Byres Research Inc., a Lantzville, British Columbia, Canada-based provider of critical infrastructure cyber security services. The deal forms what exida calls “the world’s first company offering functional safety and security certification and consultation...."
Red Orbit, April, 2009
Byres Research and exida Merge to Form First Safety and Security Certification and Consulting Company
"We are pleased to welcome Byres Research into the exida family, said John Cusimano, exida director of security services. This merger represents a major step in bringing the safety and security communities together with a common goal of helping to protect our critical facilities...."