twenty seventh January 2022 – London, UK – Crossword Cybersecurity % (AIM:CCS, “Crossword”, the “Corporate” or the “Team”), the era commercialisation corporate occupied with cyber safety and chance control, is nowadays pronouncing that its on-line device assurance platform, Rizikon, is being made freely to be had to the British Instructional Providers Affiliation (“BESA”) as a single-use cyber safety evaluation to make stronger them in opposition to Cyber Necessities certification.
BESA individuals will be capable to use Rizikon to self-assess their cyber safety alignment with the United Kingdom Govt’s Cyber Necessities scheme. A file from the self-assessment will likely be issued with a high-level evaluation and ‘Scorecard’, serving to them determine spaces of weak spot. The primary ten BESA individuals to finish the evaluation may also be eligible for a one-hour session with a Crossword cyber safety specialist to talk about their file in additional element. Must the member company wish to transfer in opposition to formal Cyber Necessities certification, Crossword will, for a set charge, help them with attaining that objective.
Moreover, Crossword will be offering a restricted loose use of the Rizikon platform to BESA individuals all for utilising the platform to evaluate their provide chain dangers. Rizikon is a safe, encrypted portal which places an organisation in regulate of managing dangers in its provide chain and the monetary, regulatory and reputational dangers they not directly lift.
Consumers too can decide to improve to Rizikon Professional, which permits them to create their very own query units and scoring approaches, enabling a 360-degree view of provide chain chance in one pane of glass.
Rizikon Professional additionally accommodates usual questionnaires on topics equivalent to cyber safety, GDPR, provider on-boarding, fashionable slavery, and anti-bribery & corruption.
Crossword will supply a presentation to replace current & doable buyers on industry plans, on the Proactive One2One Investor Discussion board webinar on 27 January 2022 at 6pm.
Hayley Baptist, Club Supervisor, BESA, mentioned: “We’re thrilled that our partnership with Crossword Cybersecurity will give our individuals the chance to evaluate their provide chain chance at scale whilst additionally taking a look at their very own cyber resilience towards the United Kingdom Cyber Necessities scheme.”
Sean Arrowsmith, Team Gross sales Director at Crossword Cybersecurity PLC, mentioned: “We’re more than pleased to be supporting BESA individuals set up cyber dangers throughout their provide chains via get entry to to Rizikon. Throughout the self-assessment, Rizikon will lend a hand them determine the place to take a position assets to cut back dangers and construct resilient provide chains and paintings in opposition to changing into Cyber Necessities qualified. Moreover, the ones individuals that need to adopt checks in their providers too can get get entry to to a loose model of the platform to power efficiencies and a few automation in that procedure.”
BESA individuals can will be capable to sign up for Rizikon get entry to during the individuals space at the BESA web site.
Contacts
Crossword Cybersecurity % – Tel: +44 (0) 20 3953 8460
Electronic mail: data@crosswordcybersecurity.com
Tom Ilube, Leader Govt Officer
Mary Dowd, Leader Monetary Officer
Grant Thornton (Nominated Adviser) – Tel: +44 (0) 20 7383 5100
Colin Aaronson / Daphne Zhang
Hybridan LLP (Dealer) – Tel: +44 (0)203 764 2341
Claire Louise Noyce
For media enquiries touch:
Duncan Gurney, GingerPR
crossword@gingerpr.co.united kingdom – Tel: +44 (0)1932 485 300
About Crossword Cybersecurity %
Crossword Cybersecurity % specializes in the improvement and commercialisation of college research-based cyber safety and chance control similar device and cyber safety consulting. The Team’s specialist cyber safety product construction and device engineering groups paintings with its college companions to broaden the study idea right into a fully-fledged business product that it’s going to then take to marketplace. The Team’s goal is to increase a portfolio of income producing, highbrow assets founded, cyber safety merchandise. Rizikon Assurance, Crossword’s main product, is a SaaS platform that permits medium to very large corporations to evaluate and set up all dangers from their providers. Nixer CyberML, Crossword’s maximum just lately introduced product, is a brand new instrument for companies that wish to remedy complex safety and cybercrime issues, equivalent to detecting and coping with compromised accounts, fraud, and in-application denial of carrier assaults. Identiproof, Crossword’s most up-to-date product, is the Global Vast Internet Consortium (W3C) verifiable credentials appropriate middleware and pockets era. Crossword’s crew of professional cyber safety experts leverages years of enjoy in nationwide safety, defence and business cyber intelligence and operations to offer bespoke recommendation adapted to its purchasers’ industry wishes, together with danger tracking.
