The Franco-Italian service provider wants to combine IT management and cybersecurity in a subscription per employee. Automation must allow it to absorb repetitive operations, while its teams handle complex situations. The model must demonstrate that the growth of the portfolio can exceed that of the human labor necessary to serve it.
The departure of an employee gives an idea of what daily IT management involves: you have to deactivate your accounts, remove your access, recover your computer and delete licenses that have become useless. These operations may involve different tools, and their coordination determines both the security of the company and the expenses it will continue to bear after this departure.
It is on this point that Netsec builds its offer, by jointly taking charge of IT and cybersecurity for mid-sized companies, with teams supported by automation.
“They have a lot of tools, but no one really orchestrates them the way they should,” explains Gianluca Varisco, co-founder and CEO of Netsec.
Bring together operations that respond to each other
Netsec addresses a broad scope: device administration, access management, software subscription tracking, networks, infrastructure and security. The service covers in particular the configuration of workstations, updates and recovery of unused licenses, but also threat monitoring, incident response, intrusion tests and audit support.
The connection between IT and cybersecurity is consistent, an alert on a computer may require isolating it, examining its connections and verifying the rights of its user, which involves linking the security signal to the operations necessary to process it. Netsec wants to bring together these responsibilities in the same team.
Employees send their requests from Slack or Microsoft Teams, and Netsec announces a start-up in one week, after inventory of the environment and connection to the client’s tools.
A price per employee, profitability per operation
Billing starts at 19 euros per employee per month, with several plans: Essentials includes device and access management, support and desktop and email protection, while Advanced adds permanent security monitoring and an incident response service.
For the client, this pricing makes the budget more understandable, and for Netsec, it places the cost of execution at the center of the model. Once subscribed, each recurring task requiring human intervention consumes part of the margin, while a reusable procedure can reduce the time needed to serve the customer.
Subscription and automation already exist in outsourcing, but Netsec intends to push their economic effects further. Partech thus highlights the technology’s ability to absorb volume tasks to allow operators to concentrate on complex decisions and interventions.
Exceptions test standardization
The potential for automation depends on the degree of similarity between operations. Creating an account according to a known procedure, applying a security policy or removing an unused license offers possibilities for repetition, while resuming an old, poorly documented environment built by successive additions requires other work.
Two companies with the same number of employees can thus represent very different workloads: one has recent tools and clearly defined access rules, while the other maintains specific applications, heterogeneous equipment and configurations that only a few employees are familiar with. Billing per employee must absorb this diversity or translate it into the conditions of the contract.
Netsec will therefore have to build integrations and procedures that are sufficiently reusable to limit the work specific to each deployment and allow automation to become an investment shared between several clients.
The breadth of the scope also imposes discipline in execution, because granting sensitive access, blocking an account or isolating a machine requires defining what can be automated and what must remain subject to validation. As the service provider centralizes operations, the protection of its own access, the traceability of its interventions and the reversibility of the service become conditions of trust.
Service providers and publishers converge on the same ground
Netsec is entering a market where several players already cover part of its functions. EVOK, part of the Swiss Sequtech group, offers outsourcing, security and cloud management to SMEs; Devoteam is involved in managed cybersecurity services, while Huntress combines its protection tools with 24/7 analysts.
Competition also comes from publishers, with Rippling IT, which brings together devices, identities and access in a platform, and, in France, Primo, which develops agents capable of executing repetitive IT operations, under the rules defined by IT teams. These solutions can allow a customer to gain productivity while retaining their operators.
Netsec will have to justify the interest in delegating a wider scope to it. The simplicity of the interface makes it easier to use, and a consistent quality of service, a competitive complete cost and proven procedures could constitute more lasting advantages. Incumbent providers, for their part, have customer relationships and knowledge of the environments they administer, which gives them a basis for investing in automation as well.
From founder experience to economic evidence
The two co-founders met at Rocket Internet. Gianluca Varisco then led security at Arduino and the Italian digital transformation team, before becoming a principal security architect at Google Cloud, while Guglielmo Reina continued his journey at Global Founders Capital and 468 Capital.
Founded in 2025 by Gianluca Varisco and Guglielmo Reina, Netsec operates under the French company Barbican SAS and presents itself as established in France and Italy. It announced on October 6, 2026 that it had raised more than $10 million in capital, or approximately 8.9 million euros, in an operation led by Partech with Primo Capital and View Different, Diego Piacentini’s investment vehicle. Its shareholders also include, among others, Riccardo Zacconi, Kima Ventures and Ithaca Investments, without their participation in this operation being detailed. The funding is to strengthen automation, integrations and operations, then support growth in Europe and the United States.
