{"id":9070,"date":"2020-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livingstagenew.wpenginepowered.com\/transaction\/livingstone-advises-silent-break-security-on-sale-to-netspi\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T20:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:07:21","slug":"livingstone-advises-silent-break-security-on-sale-to-netspi","status":"publish","type":"transaction","link":"https:\/\/livingstonepartners.com\/en\/transaction\/livingstone-advises-silent-break-security-on-sale-to-netspi\/","title":{"rendered":"Livingstone advises Silent Break Security on sale to NetSPI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Livingstone is pleased to announce it has advised Silent Break Security &lpar;\u201cSBS\u201d or \u201cThe Company\u201d&rpar;, a leader in cybersecurity and penetration testing, on its sale to <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netspi.com\/\"><strong>NetSPI<\/strong><\/a><strong>, a portfolio company of Sunstone Partners.<\/strong><\/p><p>Founded in 2011, SBS is a leading provider of transformative cybersecurity solutions across North America.&nbsp; SBS offers penetration testing, adversary simulation, offensive and defensive hacking exercises, and other services to companies across a range of industries seeking to harden their digital defenses.&nbsp; In addition, SBS provides training courses on industry Best Practices to the public and private sectors and has developed a suite of tools for companies to proactively monitor their cybersecurity and address potential weaknesses.<\/p><p>The Company\u2019s proprietary technology, adversary simulation software &lpar;Silent Break Central&rpar;, and Red Team Toolkit, enable the Company to consistently identify vulnerabilities that others miss, accelerate remediation, and provide always-on continuous testing to simplify the entire testing process. Following the acquisition, Brady Bloxham, Founder, and CEO of SBS, will become NetSPI\u2019s Chief Technology Officer &lpar;CTO&rpar;.<\/p><p>NetSPI is a leader in enterprise security testing and vulnerability management. This acquisition expands NetSPI\u2019s footprint to create a complete package for offensive cybersecurity and attack surface management.<\/p><p><em>\u201cIt is rare to find two organizations that align so closely from a mission, vision, values, and culture perspective,\u201d<\/em> added <strong>Brady Bloxham, Founder and CEO of Silent Break Security<\/strong>. <em>\u201cBoth organizations have cultures of high performance, innovation, and agility. Individually, NetSPI and Silent Break have been working toward many of the same goals and, now together, we will become a much greater force to be reckoned with.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p><em>\u201cLivingstone is pleased to have supported Brady and served as Silent Break Security\u2019s financial advisor in this transaction.&nbsp; Brady has worked hard to build an exceptional business and I look forward to what Silent Break Security and NetSPI can accomplish together,\u201d<\/em> shared <strong>Colin Campbell, Director at Livingstone<\/strong>. <em>\u201cThis represents another successful outcome for our Business &amp; Technology Services group in the increasingly important cybersecurity space.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p>This transaction is the 44th global deal closed in the technology space since 2018, including <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/livingstonepartners.com\/en\/transactions\/livingstone-advises-pubrec-on-its-merger-with-peopleconnect\">the recent merger of PubRec with 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Hughes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":3616,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"client-type":[],"region":[],"sector":[],"service":[],"transaction-type":[],"class_list":["post-9070","transaction","type-transaction","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"team_members":[1196,1106],"date":"20201201","client_type":40,"type":[1111],"region":[376],"services":[434],"sectors":[638,648,651,634],"related_transactions":"","related_testimonials":"","contacts":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Livingstone advises Silent Break Security on sale to NetSPI - Livingstone Partners<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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