Oplium
Oplium combines talent and AI to advance cybersecurity
With more than US$ 35 million in revenue in the year 2025, the company focuses on innovative technologies based on Artificial Intelligence, highly specialized teams, and international growth.
Cybercrime cost the world economy US$ 10.5 trillion in 2025, according to Cybersecurity Ventures, a consultancy specialized in digital security research and projections. If measured as a country, it would be the third-largest economy on the planet, behind only the United States and China. The projection for 2031 is even more worrying: US$ 12.2 trillion in annual losses.
Faced with this advance of digital threats, cybersecurity has ceased to be a concern restricted to IT departments to become a business priority in all sectors. As companies digitize processes, expand partner ecosystems, and migrate operations to the cloud, protecting data and systems becomes essential to guarantee competitiveness and resilience.
“Security has ceased to act only as a protection mechanism to assume a strategic role in the continuity and growth of companies. More than responding to incidents, organizations need to anticipate risks, strengthen their governance, and incorporate security in an integrated way into operations,” says Claudio Merulla, CEO of Oplium Italy and COO of Oplium Group.
The company closed 2025 with revenue of US$ 35 million and projects more than US$ 50 million for 2026. Currently, with more than 250 clients with international reach and a team of 400 professionals distributed across six countries, it serves markets in more than 15 countries.
For its founders, the numbers reflect a change in market perception: digital security is no longer seen just as a cost and has begun to be treated as essential infrastructure for businesses.
A portfolio for different risk layers
Based on deep competence and experience in Cybersecurity, Oplium unites strategic vision — technological and business — with execution capability, adding high value to clients.
The company's operations are organized into five pillars: cyber defense, risk management, cloud security and secure development, market solutions, and technologies focused on security intelligence and automation.
The structure includes specialized services in cyber defense and incident response, risk management, governance and identity, cloud security, secure application development, as well as solutions aimed at intelligence, automation, and advanced protection of digital environments.
Along with the services, Oplium selects and integrates the best security solutions, with a focus on the most innovative, and positions itself as a player in the development of its own products, addressing new, specific, and deep security needs.
The company also develops its own technologies through an innovation laboratory, with a focus on digital exposure monitoring, fraud prevention, predictive analysis, and threat intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence is used as a tool to amplify the capability of specialists, allowing them to analyze massive volumes of data, reduce false positives, and accelerate decision-making in critical environments.
For Merulla, the differentiator is not just in the portfolio, but in the way of approaching each client's challenges. “Digital security currently is an essential pillar, a business enabler. Current technologies call for a new way of doing digital security, keeping pace with new risks, new business models, and new needs for timeliness and reinnovation.”
Global presence, local action
With Italian founders and operations distributed among Brazil, Italy, Spain, Colombia, Chile, and Singapore, Oplium combines international operation with a strong presence in the Brazilian market, where it concentrates most of its professionals and clients.
For Nevio Sestini, CEO of Oplium Group, this combination between global scale and local knowledge is one of the company's differentials. “We know the pain points of technology, but we also understand how they manifest in each market,” he reinforces.
According to Sestini, each market has its own characteristics, but the need to protect digital assets, ensure operational continuity, and meet regulatory requirements has become a common concern among organizations of different sizes and segments.
This knowledge circulates among the company's different operations. Solutions developed for the Brazilian market can be applied in Europe, while European experiences help strengthen projects in Latin America.
Brazil as a talent hub
To sustain international growth without compromising the quality of delivery, the company bets on training highly specialized technical teams. According to Sestini, Brazil plays a central role in this strategy.
“The future of cybersecurity will be defined by talent, Artificial Intelligence, and specialization, and Brazil is an incredible center of competence,” says Sestini. “This is truly one of the core values of Oplium.”
Without resorting to venture capital or investment rounds, the company's growth is sustained exclusively with resources generated by its own operations, reflecting a management model guided by financial discipline, solid corporate governance, and rigor in resource allocation.
Merulla summarizes the company's strategy as the combination of business vision, technological capability, and execution. “Aligning strategy and delivery capability is a differentiator in any sector, especially in a market as complex and dynamic as digital security,” he emphasizes.
The next step is to bring the model developed over the last few years to new markets. The goal is to consolidate Oplium as one of the main independent cybersecurity references between Europe and Latin America, keeping technical specialization and proximity to clients as core pillars of the strategy.