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RNS Number : 7483S  Crossword Cybersecurity PLC  18 November 2021

Crossword Cybersecurity Plc

 

Appointment of Danone S.A. CISO to Advisory Board

 

 

18 November 2021 - London, UK - Crossword Cybersecurity Plc
(http://www.crosswordcybersecurity.com/) (AIM:CCS, "Crossword", the "Company"
or the "Group"), the technology commercialisation company focused on cyber
security and risk management, is pleased to announce the appointment of Naina
Bhattacharya, Global Chief Information Security Officer at Danone S.A.
("Danone"), who joins the Crossword's Advisory Board with immediate effect.
 

 

The Advisory Board, made up of senior information security figures from the
corporate world, academia, defence and government, provides a range of unique
perspectives that benefit Crossword clients and inform Crossword's product
development strategy.

 

Naina Bhattacharya is Global Chief Information Security Officer at Danone
S.A., the multinational food product corporation with over 100,000 staff in
120 countries. She is responsible for delivering the cybersecurity vision and
roadmap for the company. Prior to Danone, she worked in consulting and had the
privilege of working on complex cybersecurity and data privacy projects across
multiple companies in several industries. She is passionate about diversity
and inclusion with a specific interest in increasing the representation of
women in technology. Naina holds a BEng in Computer Science from BITS, Pilani,
India and a post-graduation in management from the Indian School of Business
in Hyderabad.

 

Professor Nick Jennings has stepped down from Crossword's Advisory Board as he
takes up his new role as Vice Chancellor and President of Loughborough
University. Crossword's Directors would like to thank Professor Jennings for
his service to the company.

 

 

Alison Dyer, Chair of Crossword's Advisory Board, commented: "We are delighted
that Naina has joined Crossword's Advisory Board. Naina's role as Global Chief
Information Security Officer of Danone, a world leading food company, gives
her unique insight into the needs of a major organisation. She is perfectly
placed to ensure that Crossword's products and services meet the needs of
real-world, end user organisations."

Naina Bhattacharya, commented: "I am very pleased to take on this role at
Crossword Cybersecurity. I'm looking forward to providing real world input to
help guide their cyber security product portfolio to the benefit of
Crossword's clients."

 

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Contacts

Crossword Cybersecurity plc - Tel: +44 (0) 333 090 2587

Email: info@crosswordcybersecurity.com

Tom Ilube, Chief Executive Officer

Mary Dowd, Chief Financial Officer

 

Grant Thornton (Nominated Adviser) - Tel: +44 (0) 20 7383 5100

Colin Aaronson / Daphne Zhang

 

Hybridan LLP (Broker) - Tel: +44 (0)203 764 2341

Claire Louise Noyce

 

For media enquiries contact:

Duncan Gurney, GingerPR

duncan@gingerpr.co.uk (mailto:duncan@gingerpr.co.uk) - Tel: +44 (0)1932 485
300

 

About Crossword Cybersecurity plc

Crossword Cybersecurity plc focuses on the development and commercialisation
of university research-based cyber security and risk management related
software and cyber security consulting. The Group's specialist cyber security
product development and software engineering teams work with its university
partners to develop the research concept into a fully-fledged commercial
product that it will then take to market. The Group's aim is to build up a
portfolio of revenue generating, intellectual property based, cyber security
products. Rizikon Assurance, Crossword's leading product, is a SaaS platform
that enables medium to large companies to assess and manage all risks from
their suppliers. Nixer CyberML, another Crossword product, is a new tool for
businesses that want to solve advanced security and cybercrime problems, such
as detecting and dealing with compromised accounts, fraud, and in-application
denial of service attacks. Identiproof, Crossword's most recent product, is
the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) verifiable credentials compatible
middleware and wallet technology. Crossword's team of expert cyber security
consultants leverages years of experience in national security, defence and
commercial cyber intelligence and operations to provide bespoke advice
tailored to its clients' business needs, including threat monitoring.

 

 

 

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