Security.

• Position: TechnologyTools

Betrusted, a provider of packaged security solutions for large corporations--solutions covering areas like authentication and electronic identification, information integrity and transaction validation and privacy concerns--is expanding around the world, thanks to a $200 million equity infusion from One Equity Partners. Originally purchased from PricewaterhouseCoopers in January 2003, the company had grown from 70 employees and $3.5 million in revenue then to 750 employees and $125 million in revenues by June 2004, though only a fifth of that came from North and South America; the company's largest current market is in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Much of that growth has been fueled by acquisitions--10 in that period alone in a variety of countries. Betrusted now has 10 data centers and has established a focus on several key vertical markets--among them financial services, governments, telecommunications and healthcare--and claims more than 3,000 customers.

The company's projects are focused around key infrastructure components: perimeters, networks, hosts, servers and applications, with controls such as firewalls and virtual private networks. Controls include...