# Q&A with appScatter Group PLC: Acquisition of Abilott (LON:APPS)

- Link: https://www.directorstalkinterviews.com/qa-with-appscatter-group-plc-acquisition-of-abilott-lonapps/412763379
- Published: 2018-12-19T12:32:31+00:00
- Author: Amilia Stone

**appScatter Group PLC** (LON:APPS) Chief Executive Officer Philip Marcella caught
up with DirectorsTalk for an exclusive interview to discuss the acquisition of Abilott
and how this fits in with their business.

 

**Q1: First off, I wanted to congratulate you on appScatter’s agreement to acquire
Abilott, can you tell us a bit more about how this relationship came about?**

**A1**: Abilott has been working with us for quite a few years, in fact we first
began working with them before we went public on the AIM market.

The reason we got involved with them is that the amount of data we collect is quite
substantial and we also collect private data on behalf of our customers and clients,
many of which are financial institutions and also some banks. We were fully aware
that there were going to be processes put in place which would mean that to handle
private data on behalf of financial institutions that our clients would require 
certification and various compliance issues.

So, we brought them in to help on our infrastructure and our compliance pre the 
IPO.

 

**Q2: Are you able to expand a little bit on Abilott’s business and how they will
add to your business?**

**A2**: Basically, Abilott is a security service and compliance, they concentrate
on IT infrastructure with technologies such as DDoS, penetration testing and zero-
day vulnerability. That’s the main core of the business but they also concentrate
heavily on GDPR and ISO certification.

That will be integrated into our platform because we are required by some of our
clients to start automating some of our threat analysis products.

 

**Q3: What will this agreement mean for your operations and for your clients?**

**A3**: Our clients have requested extended security services, or compliance services
shall I say. We offer threat analysis by analysing apps on our clients and look 
for GDPR breaches or any other areas where there could be vulnerability within their
apps.

The big issue is really automating the process, there are automations out there 
where you can upload an app and it will tell you if your app is up to date with 
various FTK’s and API’s. However, there isn’t a service which will analyse GDPR 
compliance with current apps.

So, the main operations we’ll be doing is offering that service to our clients but
also automating the process as we are a SaaS platform.

 

**Q4: I’m sure listeners can relate with numerous articles coming out entitled ‘
X amount of android apps that you should avoid’ as they contain malware. Is this
something that your platform will pick up?**

**A4**: Basically, that’s what we do. If you imagine, we work on behalf of the publisher
or the developer so what they actually do is they import their app into our system
and then we do a threat analysis. So, we actually look to see if they have malware
or if they have any breaches whatsoever, whether it’s just general security or whether
it’s GDPR so that is the point of the platform. I think there’s a top 200 most dangerous
apps but if it was one of our clients, we would’ve pointed out to them that they
do include malware and they would have to fix it.

 

**Q5: How is Abilott going to further develop the company’s strategy to grow its
mobile app management platform, I guess this is in addition to the acquisition you
made of Priori Data in July this year?**

**A5**: There is a lot of cross-selling between the three companies. When you actually
look at the Abilott clients, they’ve got some great clients mainly from the gaming
industry which include some of the ones that we’ve mentioned already like Betfred.

So, what we’re finding is that we have our data products that some of the gaming
clients are requiring, we then have some of our clients requiring the security assessment
or the automated software. So, the principal is really that we’re all striving for
a single platform to have an end-to-end solution for publishers and developers and
all the security products will be embedded into the platform & obviously, we have
the cross-selling between all three types of clients.

 

**Q6: What can investors expect to see in the next 12 months coming out of this 
relationship?**

**A6**: From the Abilott side, we would expect an increase in revenue and that’s
because of the cross-selling as we’ve already explained.

From the appScatter Group side, we’re going to have the automated products and that
will obviously give a better offering and we would expect that to see the same light
and give us an increase in revenues.

I believe between the two companies, both revenue will increase but the services
we offer to our clients will far superior.

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