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RNS Number : 5066W  Crossword Cybersecurity PLC  18 April 2023

Crossword Cybersecurity Plc

Crossword Cybersecurity Plc gains further traction in Higher Education

 

18 April 2023 - 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, today announces that two UK universities have gone live with its
third party supply chain assurance platform Rizikon Assurance. The contract
win follows on from Crossword's attendance at the UK's UCISA (Universities and
Colleges Information Systems Association) national conference earlier this
month.

 

UCISA is the professional body for digital practitioners in Education. They
represent almost all the major UK universities and higher education colleges
with a growing membership among other educational institutions and commercial
organisations interested in information systems and technology in UK
education. Crossword is a UCISA member and the following quote from the UCISA
Strategic plan particularly resonates with the Company: "UCISA recognises that
the Higher Education and Further Education Sectors continue to operate in a
challenging period of sustained change. As a result, the need to seek out best
practice from both within and outside the sector - as well as the best
products and services - has never been greater, to ensure the  UCISA 
community has the agility and creativity needed to meet the challenges of
tomorrow".

Rizikon Assurance (https://www.rizikon.io/) , Crossword's leading cyber
security product, is a SaaS platform that enables medium to large companies to
assess and manage all risks from their suppliers.

The greatest cybersecurity threats to organisations of any size arise from
suppliers, third parties and connected technologies. This is because their
third party nature makes it very difficult to assure and control them in a
timely manner. Recent research
(https://www.crosswordcybersecurity.com/crossword-report) independently
conducted for Crossword of over 200 Chief Information Security Officers
(CISOs) found that 83 per cent. of CISOs viewed "ensuring that the entire
supply chain is water-tight in its ability to defend and recover against
threat actors" as a challenge.

 

Sean Arrowsmith, Group Sales Director for Crossword Cybersecurity, commented:
"At a time when supply chain attacks are being increasingly used to
infiltrate educational institutions, we are finding more and more
universities and colleges are taking a proactive approach to managing their
supply chain risk.  Being a member of the UCISA network has really helped
Crossword to foster close collaboration within the community in order to
remove cyber risk so that effort can be spent on educational outcomes."

You can learn more about the full range cyber security products and consulting
services available from Crossword Cybersecurity by visiting
www.crosswordcybersecurity.com (http://www.crosswordcybersecurity.com) .

 

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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 / Ciara Donnelly

 

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

Claire Louise Noyce

 

For media enquiries contact:

Financial PR:

David Hothersall, Kinlan Communications

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

General:

Duncan Gurney, GingerPR

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

 

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 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, 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/)

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