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Crossword Cybersecurity Plc, the cybersecurity solutions company focused on cyber strategy and risk, announces that it has signed a three-year, exclusive partnership with the UK subsidiary of a global aerospace, defence and security company, to jointly market Rizikon, the supply chain cyber platform, to selected sub-sectors within the UK critical national infrastructure (CNI) market.  The partnership will be publicly launched to clients by both parties in the next few weeks. Supply chain cyber security risks are an increasing challenge for all organisations, as a number of recent high-profile incidents have demonstrated.  Rizikon supply chain platform The partner has identified a particular need for clients across the CNI sector The partner has identified a particular need for clients across the CNI sector, who all need to minimise cyber risks across their third-party partners and supply chains and will take a comprehensive solution to market based on their services and expertise, with Crossword’s Rizikon supply chain platform delivered as a service to clients. Stuart Jubb, Group MD and incoming CEO of Crossword, said: “This is a transformational partnership for Crossword with a global scale, innovative defence and security partner with an outstanding reputation. This Rizikon partnership will enable us to help multiple, large scale CNI organisations make their supply chains more secure. This partnership will drive significant growth in Crossword’s Rizikon revenue, as already forecast in 2024, and has the potential to generate several million pounds over the coming years.”

Crossword Cybersecurity Plc, the cybersecurity solutions company focused on cyber strategy has signed a partnership agreement with Boost, the key operations and logistics partner across Croatia, servicing multiple international markets. Through this partnership, Boost will distribute Crossword’s full suite of cybersecurity products across Europe.  Boost will support Crossword, by providing clients with its ISO audit accreditation support services, enabling them to receive ISO certification and maintain compliance with standards. Onboarding and support services Crossword Cybersecurity’s Trillion™ and Rizikon platforms, and Nightingale Security Monitoring will become available through the distributor’s extensive community of small and medium-sized businesses across Europe. Boost and Crossword will additionally be working in collaboration with ongoing onboarding and support services, providing the specialist advisory required across the UK and Europe. The platform provides the ideal solution for businesses looking to protect end-user data Trillion™ is a Threat Intelligence platform that continuously tracks, correlates and analyses billions of stolen user credentials, and hunts for digital indicators that could be relevant to an organisation’s security defences. The platform provides the ideal solution for businesses looking to protect end-user data at scale through the Breached Credentials and HarVista products. Crossword’s SOC Rizikon is a Supplier Assurance platform that enables organisations to capture the information from third parties required to identify, quantify, and mitigate supply chain cyber risks, while ensuring compliance. Nightingale Security Monitoring is a service run through Crossword’s security operations centre (SOC) and provides monitoring and analysis of an organisation’s security posture on an ongoing basis, identifying any potential threats in real time. Reach and exposure of Trillion Stuart Jubb, Group Managing Director of Crossword, said: “Crossword is very pleased to have finalised this agreement with Boost." "We’re looking forward to amplifying the reach and exposure of Trillion through the partner’s vast network, enabling partners of all sizes to help their clients protect themselves against threats."

Crossword Cybersecurity Plc, the cybersecurity solutions company focused on cyber strategy and risk, has launched a new CyberAI Practice. The practice, which sits within Crossword Cybersecurity’s Consulting business, consolidates Crossword’s artificial intelligence (AI) expertise into a centre of excellence that will deliver AI-focused cybersecurity consulting services and products to help clients harness the power of AI in the organisation.  The ever-evolving threat landscape and proliferation of data-generating apps and devices has had organisations grasping at Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLM) as the solution to the problems they face. While AI has a huge role to play in improving security posture, customer experience, identifying insights and streamlining business processes, the pace of change, regulation, deployment by employees of ‘Shadow AI’, and ‘AI washing’ by marketers, can leave cybersecurity teams struggling to remain current. The LLM dilemma LLMs have empowered would-be attackers by lowering the barriers to launching successful attacks LLMs have led to the emergence of many new tools, which must be assessed and assured so that adoption is controlled and does not pose legal, reputational, or commercial threats. Simultaneously, LLMs have empowered would-be attackers by lowering the barriers to launching successful attacks. Crossword has already led a significant initiative in investigating the application of Generative AI to cyber security. This has been conducted with major industry partners and leading universities, including academics from Oxford University and MIT in the USA and AI researchers from the world-famous Alan Turing Institute. Helping enterprises keep pace with AI innovation The CyberAI Practice will provide organisations with advisory, security testing and engineering services, which will allow organisations to manage AI threats and grasp the opportunities to improve efficiency, cybersecurity, and create new experiences for end users. Following its launch, the CyberAI Practice is offering the following services: Engineering – Modular services designed to support the assessment and development of LLM architectures, LLM security testing, design and security architecture reviews, and wider LLM-related engineering services CyberAI onsite workshops – Education and maturity workshops to help organisations understand the market, assess their needs and existing AI use, and consult on whether to ‘build or buy’ Latest wave of AI technologies James Henry, Consulting Innovation Director at Crossword Cybersecurity said: “The latest wave of AI technologies hit the security industry with such pace that many businesses have been struggling to keep up." "At Crossword it is our mission to provide businesses with the knowledge and tools needed to securely embrace the benefits of Generative AI technologies, whilst also managing the associated risks.”