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Crossword Cybersecurity PLC
15 November 2022
Crossword's Trillion protects Spanish Public Administration
against threat of digital identity and credentials misuse
Spain's National Cryptological Centre deploys Trillion solution
to provide a central view of threats across the public
administration, and protect hundreds of thousands of users.
15 November 2022 - London, UK - Crossword Cybersecurity Plc
(AIM:CCS, "Crossword", the "Company" or the "Group"), the
cybersecurity solutions company focused on cyber strategy and risk,
has today announced the completion of a project to expand the scope
of its services with CCN-CERT, the Information Security Incident
Response Team (CERT) of the National Cryptologic Centre in Spain
(CCN), which is accountable to the Spanish National Intelligence
Centre. CCN-CERT has expanded its use of Crossword's cloud-based
breached account mining platform, Trillion , to protect its entire
public administration, including its education sector. Trillion is
Crossword's breached account mining platform, which continuously
tracks, correlates and analyses billions of stolen usernames and
passwords.
Back in 2020, during the height of the Covid-19 outbreak,
CCN-CERT needed to act immediately to further enhance the security
position of its national health infrastructure. The head of the
cybersecurity department at CCN contacted the Trillion operations
team after its global offer of support to help protect digital
identities within health services. In a matter of hours, the team
at CCN was given access to Trillion, every health organisation
across Spain was configured in the platform and breached
credentials data was being fed back into the CERT.
Protecting a whole public administration
After a period of successful operation across the health sector,
CCN-CERT decided that a wider scope for Trillion would provide even
greater visibility of digital identities, such as account usernames
and passwords, that may have been leaked from third parties and
shared for exploitation by criminals.
Crossword collaborated with the CERT to implement new features
which would enable it to extend the use of Trillion to local
Government departments and organisations, while still maintaining a
central, national view within the CERT. At this scale, it was
critical that Trillion was able to deliver the data both locally
and nationally when it mattered.
Trillion, with the new features, was rolled out over the
following weeks. CCN-CERT invited hundreds of local authorities,
municipalities, town halls and central government departments to
come on board using simple automated signups, which took a matter
of minutes to complete.
Trillion is now monitoring hundreds of organisations, thousands
of domains and reporting leaked data on hundreds of thousands of
public workers across Spain.
Jon Inns, Product Director for Arc and Trillion, comments:
"Protecting large, distributed organisations, such as the public
sector, where many individual entities exist is one of the more
challenging aspects of cyber security at scale. Working with
CCN-CERT, we have used Trillion to create a strong layer of
multi-tenanted visibility to help defend against credential misuse,
while ensuring that it's easy for organisations to participate and
benefit, from universities to hospitals. Trillion gives a central
view of threats and lowers the risk of public services being
exploited through credentials based attacks.
"Crossword considers CCN-CERT a true business partner, and we
learn as much from their feedback on our products as they do from
our data. By listening closely to clients' needs we are
continuously enhancing Trillion to support the cybersecurity needs
of organisations operating at the top of their game."
Continuous protection against leaked credentials
Trillion is designed to support organisations of every size,
from small businesses to large enterprises, Managed Service
Providers and National CERTs, with continuous tracking, correlation
and analysis of billions of stolen usernames and passwords.
It is proven to operate at scale for any organisation concerned
about the potential impact of stolen credentials from third party
data breaches, and provides the following benefits:
-- Massive scale: Monitoring for credentials belonging to dozens
or hundreds of domains can be initialised in minutes
-- Multi-tenancy: Trillion's architecture enables provisioning at a local level with parent or supervisor-like drilldowns for CERT teams
-- APIs: Trillion has rich APIs enabling CERT teams to integrate
with existing systems to reduce analyst time
-- Privacy: Trillion enables your teams to work with the data in
a safe environment without compromising the trust of your users and
peers.
-- Clarity: Trillion enriches data with assessments of accuracy
and impact, saving valuable analysis cycles
-- Instant on: Automated user enrolment and in-application
configuration means you can start protecting even the largest
environments, fast!
You can learn more about how Trillion protects users across the
globe from the threats of breached account information by visiting:
https://www.crosswordcybersecurity.com/trillion
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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
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Donnelly
Hybridan LLP (Broker) - Tel: +44 (0)203 764 2341
Claire Louise Noyce
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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/
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