RCS - Crossword Cybersec - Rizikon Assurance to support Cammell Laird

Crossword CybersecurityAnnouncement

10/03/2020 07:00

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RNS Number : 4831F  Crossword Cybersecurity PLC  10 March 2020

Crossword Cybersecurity Plc

Rizikon Assurance to support one of the most famous names in British industry

 

10 March 2020 - 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, is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with
Cammell Laird (https://www.clbh.co.uk/) for the use of Crossword's secure
Third-party Assurance platform, Rizikon Assurance (https://www.rizikon.io/) ,
to assess and help manage risks within its extensive supply chain.

Cammell Laird was founded in 1828 and is based on the River Mersey in the
Liverpool City Region on the west coast of Britain. The company's Birkenhead
site expands across 130 acres and includes four dry docks, a large modular
construction hall and extensive covered workshops. It is also at the centre of
a marine and engineering cluster with easy access to support services
classification societies and port state authorities.

Today Cammell Laird is rapidly expanding as a cutting-edge engineering
services specialist. Its highly skilled workforce and extensive world class
facilities are used to support a broad range of sectors and projects.

Cammell Laird has continued to develop its capability in the marine sector and
is a world leader specialising in military ship refit, commercial ship repair,
upgrade and conversion and shipbuilding.

In addition, Cammell Laird looks to the future in its rapidly expanding Energy
department for advanced modular manufacture and a cutting-edge research and
development programme looking at the advantages of modern offsite
manufacturing techniques across both the Civil Nuclear and Maritime
industries.

Rizikon Assurance is a secure, encrypted portal used by organisations to
assure their third parties and suppliers.  It contains standard
questionnaires on subjects such as cyber security, GDPR, supplier on-boarding,
modern slavery and anti-bribery & corruption, and also supports the
customer's own question sets and scoring approaches giving their clients a
single platform to get a 360-degree view of supply chain risk.  It improves
the scalability, security and auditability of third-party assurance and due
diligence via automation, centralisation and encryption.

Sean Arrowsmith, Group Sales Director of Crossword, commented: "Crossword is
delighted to be supplying its Third-party Assurance platform, Rizikon
Assurance to one of the most famous names in British industry.  Cammell Laird
is an historic British company with an extensive supply chain. Using Rizikon
Assurance to assess supply chain risks is further demonstration that Cammell
Laird is committed to sustainable and responsible operation. We are excited to
begin working in partnership with them as the they rapidly expand as a
cutting-edge engineering services specialist."

 

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, 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.  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.

 

Contacts

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

Email: info@crosswordcybersecurity.com

Tom Ilube, Chief Executive Officer

Mary Dowd, Finance Director

 

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

Colin Aaronson / Jamie Barklem / Niall McDonald

 

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

Claire Louise Noyce

 

 

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