{"id":202497,"date":"2026-04-06T01:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/riverside-backed-powerhouse-virtual-it-buys-sydney-cybersecurity-biz\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T04:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T08:05:11","slug":"riverside-backed-powerhouse-virtual-it-buys-sydney-cybersecurity-biz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/riverside-backed-powerhouse-virtual-it-buys-sydney-cybersecurity-biz\/","title":{"rendered":"Riverside-backed powerhouse Virtual IT buys Sydney cybersecurity biz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/street-talk\/riverside-backed-powerhouse-virtual-it-buys-sydney-cybersecurity-biz-20260406-p5zllt\">Riverside-backed powerhouse Virtual IT buys Sydney cybersecurity biz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/street-talk\/riverside-backed-powerhouse-virtual-it-buys-sydney-cybersecurity-biz-20260406-p5zllt\">https:\/\/www.afr.com\/street-talk\/riverside-backed-powerhouse-virtual-it-buys-sydney-cybersecurity-biz-20260406-p5zllt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-06 01:57:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.afr.com\">www.afr.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. Dealmakers at The Riverside Company had extra cause to kick back over the Easter break as promotions flew like confetti and the team closed a significant bolt-on acquisition for portfolio company Virtual IT Group.The cybersecurity firm snapped up Sydney-headquartered rival Security Centric in the days leading up to the long weekend, Street Talk can reveal. The deal is slated to scale the managed services powerhouse into a $200 million-plus annual revenue business and expand its footprint. Virtual IT bought Auckland-based The Instillery last year for an undisclosed amount.Loading&#8230;<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riverside-backed powerhouse Virtual IT buys Sydney cybersecurity biz https:\/\/www.afr.com\/street-talk\/riverside-backed-powerhouse-virtual-it-buys-sydney-cybersecurity-biz-20260406-p5zllt Publish Date: 2026-04-06 01:57:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_1.8877%2C$multiply_1%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_170\/t_crop_custom\/c_scale%2Cw_800%2Cq_88%2Cf_jpg\/t_afr_no_label_no_age_social_wm\/8bafacbe0475024e82dab69764674a525c86968a","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-202497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202499,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202497\/revisions\/202499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}