RCS - Crossword Cybersec - Crossword Supports BESA Members

Crossword CybersecurityAnnouncement

27/01/2022 07:00

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RNS Number : 7686Z  Crossword Cybersecurity PLC  27 January 2022

Crossword Cybersecurity Supports British Educational Suppliers Association
 Members with Cyber Essentials Certification and Access to Rizikon Assurance

 

27(th) January 2022 - 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 today announcing that its online software
assurance platform, Rizikon (https://www.rizikon.io/) , is being made freely
available to the British Educational Suppliers Association ("BESA")
(https://www.besa.org.uk/) as a single-use cyber security assessment to
support them towards Cyber Essentials certification.

 

BESA members will be able to use Rizikon to self-assess their cyber security
alignment with the UK Government's Cyber Essentials scheme. A report from the
self-assessment will be issued with a high-level overview and 'Scorecard',
helping them identify areas of weakness. The first ten BESA members to
complete the assessment will also be eligible for a one-hour consultation with
a Crossword cyber security specialist to discuss their report in more detail.
Should the member firm want to move towards formal Cyber Essentials
certification, Crossword will, for a fixed fee, assist them with achieving
that goal.

Additionally, Crossword will offer a limited free use of the Rizikon platform
to BESA members interested in utilising the platform to assess their supply
chain risks. Rizikon is a secure, encrypted portal which puts an organisation
in control of managing risks in its supply chain and the financial, regulatory
and reputational risks they indirectly carry.

 

Customers can also opt to upgrade to Rizikon Pro, which allows them to create
their own question sets and scoring approaches, enabling a 360-degree view of
supply chain risk in a single pane of glass.

 

Rizikon Pro also contains standard questionnaires on subjects such as cyber
security, GDPR, supplier on-boarding, modern slavery, and anti-bribery &
corruption.

 

Crossword will provide a presentation to update existing & potential
investors on business plans, at the Proactive One2One Investor Forum webinar
on 27 January 2022 at 6pm.

 

Hayley Baptist - Membership Manager, BESA, said: "We are delighted that our
partnership with Crossword Cybersecurity will give our members the opportunity
to assess their supply chain risk at scale while also looking at their own
cyber resilience against the UK Cyber Essentials scheme."

 

Sean Arrowsmith, Group Sales Director at Crossword Cybersecurity PLC, said:
"We are very happy to be supporting BESA members manage cyber risks across
their supply chains through access to Rizikon. Through the self-assessment,
Rizikon will help them identify where to invest resources to reduce risks and
build resilient supply chains and work towards becoming Cyber Essentials
certified. Additionally, those members that are looking to undertake
assessments of their suppliers can also get access to a free version of the
platform to drive efficiencies and some automation in that process."

 

BESA members can will be able to register for Rizikon access through the
members area on the BESA site.

 

 

Contacts

Crossword Cybersecurity plc - Tel: +44 (0) 20 3953 8460

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

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

 

About Crossword Cybersecurity plc

Crossword Cybersecurity (https://www.crosswordcybersecurity.com/) 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
(https://www.rizikon.io/) , 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, Crossword's most recently launched 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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