iC Consult Group, a service and consult company in identity and access management and a portfolio company of the Carlyle Group, has acquired Kapstone Technologies LLC, a provider of identity and security services.

Kapstone offers its experience in identity and access management (IAM), privileged account management (PAM), identity security operations center (SOC), compliance reporting and application program interface (API) security. The deal marks iC Consult’s third strategic acquisition.

“As an established managed services provider with a comprehensive portfolio of managed services and product accelerators, Kapstone will significantly expand and enhance our global managed services offering as well as our capacity and ability to execute in the United States,” says Jürgen Biermann, CEO of iC Consult Group. “The growing organization in India – a great pool of talented and experienced IAM experts – will allow us to offer attractive offshore capabilities to global customers in particular.”