Fime has announced the acquisition of Red Alert Labs, marking a significant advancement in its goal to become a global player in digital trust.
This acquisition enhances Fime's capabilities by integrating cybersecurity evaluation, certification expertise, and compliance automation into its existing services in payments, smart mobility, and digital identity.
Trust Infrastructure Development
As digital ecosystems become more interconnected, addressing trust requires a comprehensive approach. The convergence of payments, digital identities, connected devices, and AI-enabled services necessitates a solid foundation in security, interoperability, and compliance to ensure that technologies function as intended. Fime is dedicated to providing the trust infrastructure necessary for scaling these ecosystems, combining its expertise in testing and certification with independent evaluation capabilities throughout the digital product lifecycle.
Red Alert Labs bolsters Fime's strategy by adding significant cybersecurity know-how and the CyberPass compliance automation platform. This platform helps manufacturers enhance their compliance preparedness and supports certification processes at an industrial scale, becoming more critical with new cybersecurity regulations like the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) coming into effect starting September 2026, with the main obligations by December 2027.
Comprehensive Customer Support
Fime expands its cybersecurity capabilities to help customers deliver trusted technologiesFime and Red Alert Labs together aim to provide comprehensive support, from advisory services and security design to implementation, testing, evaluation, certification, and ongoing assurance.
This partnership expands Fime's approach in payments and digital identity into the cybersecurity sector, helping customers rapidly bring reliable technologies to market and maintain them as regulations and threats evolve.
Expert Insights
“Our ambition is to make Fime a global Digital Trust Provider,” said Lionel Grosclaude, CEO of Fime. “For more than three decades, we have helped build trust in payments, extending that expertise into digital identity and smart mobility. Cybersecurity is the next natural step. These markets are converging: customers increasingly need to prove not only that a product works and interoperates, but that it is secure, compliant and remains trustworthy throughout its lifecycle. Red Alert Labs brings us world-class cybersecurity expertise together with a platform approach that will help us deliver that trust at scale.”
"Red Alert Labs was built around the idea that cybersecurity assurance needs to become scalable and continuous," said Roland Atoui, founder and Managing Director of Red Alert Labs. "Joining Fime gives us the opportunity to combine our accredited evaluation expertise and CyberPass platform with Fime's global testing, certification, and digital trust capabilities. Together, we can help manufacturers continuously assess their compliance readiness, help schemes industrialize certification, and extend cybersecurity trust into digital identity, wallets, and emerging agentic ecosystems."
Future of Red Alert Labs
Red Alert Labs will maintain its operation as an accredited independent cybersecurity laboratory, retaining the accreditations and technical autonomy critical to its standing.
Operating under the identity Red Alert Labs, cybersecurity by Fime, it will merge its established security expertise with Fime's global capabilities. Roland Atoui will continue to lead Red Alert Labs, expanding its scope to include Fime’s global security activities.
Fime announces the acquisition of Red Alert Labs, taking a further step in its strategy to become a global Digital Trust Provider.
The acquisition adds cybersecurity evaluation, certification expertise and compliance automation to Fime’s established capabilities across payments, smart mobility and digital identity.
Trust infrastructure
As digital ecosystems become increasingly interconnected, trust can no longer be addressed in silos. Payments, digital identities, connected devices and emerging AI-enabled services increasingly rely on the same foundations: security, interoperability, compliance and the ability to demonstrate that technologies continue to operate as intended.
Fime’s ambition is to provide the trust infrastructure that enables these ecosystems to scale, combining expertise, testing and assurance platforms, independent evaluation and certification capabilities across the lifecycle of digital products and services.
Red Alert Labs strengthens this strategy with deep cybersecurity expertise and its CyberPass compliance automation platform. Alongside accredited security evaluation, CyberPass enables manufacturers to assess and continuously improve their compliance readiness, while helping schemes and certification ecosystems manage and industrialize assessment and certification processes at scale.
This capability is increasingly critical as new cybersecurity regulations come into force. From 11 September 2026, Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) reporting obligations apply, with the Act’s main obligations taking effect from 11 December 2027. Manufacturers will increasingly need to demonstrate cybersecurity compliance not simply at launch, but throughout the lifecycle of their products.
Together, Fime and Red Alert Labs will support customers from advisory and security by design through implementation, testing, evaluation and certification to continuous assurance. This extends Fime’s established approach in payments and digital identity into cybersecurity, enabling customers to bring trusted technologies to market faster and maintain trust as products, regulations and threats evolve.
Expert insights
“Our ambition is to make Fime a global Digital Trust Provider,” said Lionel Grosclaude, CEO of Fime. “For more than three decades, we have helped build trust in payments, and we have extended that expertise into digital identity and smart mobility. Cybersecurity is the next natural step. These markets are converging: customers increasingly need to prove not only that a product works and interoperates, but that it is secure, compliant and remains trustworthy throughout its lifecycle. Red Alert Labs brings us world-class cybersecurity expertise together with a platform approach that will help us deliver that trust at scale.”
“Red Alert Labs was built around the idea that cybersecurity assurance needs to become scalable and continuous,” said Roland Atoui, founder and Managing Director of Red Alert Labs. “Joining Fime gives us the opportunity to combine our accredited evaluation expertise and CyberPass platform with Fime’s global testing, certification and digital trust capabilities. Together, we can help manufacturers continuously assess their compliance readiness, help schemes industrialize certification, and extend cybersecurity trust into digital identity, wallets and emerging agentic ecosystems.”
Future of Red Alert Labs
Red Alert Labs will continue to operate as an accredited and independent cybersecurity laboratory, preserving the accreditations and technical autonomy that underpin its reputation. Under the identity Red Alert Labs, cybersecurity by Fime, it will combine its established security expertise and technology with Fime’s global capabilities and reach.
Roland Atoui will continue to lead Red Alert Labs, with an expanded scope encompassing Fime’s security activities globally,
