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06/12/2022 07:00

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RNS Number : 4960H  Crossword Cybersecurity PLC  06 December 2022

Crossword's Arc delivers real-time leaked credentials checking for

Sticky Password customers

Crossword partners with Sticky Password, one of the most established password
vaults on the market, to integrate Arc, its real-time credential checking
service for consumer apps.

 

6 December 2022 - London, UK - Crossword Cybersecurity Plc
(http://www.crosswordcybersecurity.com/) (AIM:CCS, "Crossword", the "Company"
or the "Group"), the cybersecurity solutions company focused on cyber strategy
and risk, has today announced the integration of Arc
(https://www.crosswordcybersecurity.com/arc) , its real-time credential
checking service, with one of the industry's most well-established secure
password vaults, Sticky Password.

Arc is a dark web monitoring solution that provides a continuous method of
checking if credential pairs, stored by a user in the Sticky Password vault,
are an identical match to credentials being distributed on dark markets that
trade in stolen data. Since its founding in 2001 by a team of former AVG
Technologies executives, Sticky Password has provided secure password
management solutions to millions of users.

Recent research
(https://resources.digitalshadows.com/whitepapers-and-reports/account-takeover-in-2022)
indicates there are over 24 billion stolen username and password combinations
on the Dark Web, a number that has increased by 65% since 2020. Stolen
credentials
(https://www.crosswordcybersecurity.com/post/credential-stuffing-are-you-doing-enough)
put users and organisations at risk of further cybercrime and fraud.

Developed with support from the UK Government's Innovate UK
(https://www.ukri.org/councils/innovate-uk) grant, Arc provides organisations
that develop consumer applications with real-time, secure credential leak
checks and credential stuffing protection for their users. Using cryptographic
exchanges between its data stores and third party applications, Arc compares
user login details that are sent or held by an application with Arc's
proprietary internal leak information, without the need to send or receive any
of the original credentials.

Jon Inns, Product Director for Arc and Trillion, comments: "This integration
signals an evolution in reliable credential security. Just checking once for
the existence of an account password in a list of millions is an outdated and
ineffective security strategy. The integration of Arc with Sticky Password
means that its vaults can continually and securely check for the existence and
sharing of the full credential pair, without any private information ever
leaving the application. This integration between our technologies creates a
truly unique security combination which is so much more effective and
powerful."

Peter Lipa, VP of Sticky Password North America, adds: "We're delighted to be
working with the team at Crossword. Arc is an extremely robust dark web
monitoring solution that enables us to provide our users with frequent updates
containing detailed information about real security threats. Together, we're
creating an innovative way of providing users with actionable data that will
increase their online security while preserving their privacy."

 

 

 

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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 / Jamie Barklem / Daphne Zhang / Ciara Donnelly

 

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

Claire Louise Noyce

 

For media enquiries contact:

General:

Duncan Gurney, GingerPR

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

 

Financial PR:

David Hothersall, Kinlan Communications

davidh@kinlan.net (mailto:davidh@kinlan.net) - Tel: +44 (0) 207 638 3435

 

About Crossword Cybersecurity plc

Crossword offers a range of cyber security solutions to help companies
understand and reduce cyber security risk. We do this through a combination of
people and technology, in the form of SaaS and software products, consulting,
and managed services. Crossword's areas of emphasis are cyber security
strategy and risk, supply chain cyber, threat detection and response, and
digital identity and the aim is to build up a portfolio of cyber security
products and services with recurring revenue models in these four areas. We
work closely with UK universities and our products and services are often
powered by academic research-driven insights. In the area of cybersecurity
strategy and risk our consulting services include cyber maturity assessments,
industry certifications, and virtual chief information security officer
(vCISO) managed services.

 

Crossword's end-to-end supply chain cyber standard operating model (SCC SOM)
is supported by our best-selling SaaS platform, Rizikon Assurance, along with
cost-effective cyber audits, security testing services and complete managed
services for supply chain cyber risk management. Threat detection and response
services include our Nightingale AI-based network monitoring, Nixer to protect
against application layer DDoS attacks, our Trillion and Arc breached
credentials tracking platforms, and incident response. Crossword's work in
digital identity is based on the World Wide Web Consortium W3C verifiable
credentials standard and our current solution, Identiproof, enables secure
digital verification of individuals to prevent fraud.

 

Crossword serves medium and large clients including FTSE 100, FTSE 250 and
S&P listed companies in various sectors, such as defence, insurance,
investment and retail banks, private equity, education, technology and
manufacturing and has offices in the UK, Poland and Oman. Crossword is traded
on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.

 

Visit Crossword at https://www.crosswordcybersecurity.com/
(https://www.crosswordcybersecurity.com/)

 

About Sticky Password

Sticky Password is the developer of an award-winning password manager and form
filler. Since 2001, our security products have been protecting millions of
passwords for consumers and small businesses; providing automatic login,
one-click form filling and secure storage for sensitive personal data. In
addition to cloud storage and backup, our native, multi-platform application
solution offers users a local WiFi-only sync and backup option that eschews
storage in the cloud.

 

Sticky Password has been the partner of choice for industry leading companies
like ESET and Imation to power their password management solutions. Get more
information at https://www.stickypassword.com/
(https://www.stickypassword.com/)

 

 

 

 

 

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