Crossword Cybersecurity
Plc
Launches new CyberAI
Practice
Helping CISOs embrace AI with
confidence across the enterprise
26
March 2024 - London, UK -
Crossword Cybersecurity
Plc (AIM:CCS, "Crossword", the
"Company" or the "Group"), the cybersecurity solutions company
focused on cyber strategy and risk, has launched a new
CyberAI Practice. The practice, which sits within
Crossword Cybersecurity's Consulting business, consolidates
Crossword's artificial intelligence (AI) expertise into a centre of
excellence that will deliver AI-focused cybersecurity consulting
services and products to help clients harness the power of AI in
the organisation.
The ever-evolving threat landscape
and proliferation of data-generating apps and devices has had
organisations grasping at Generative AI and Large Language Models
(LLM) as the solution to the problems they face. While AI has a
huge role to play in improving security posture, customer
experience, identifying insights and streamlining business
processes, the pace of change, regulation, deployment by employees
of 'Shadow AI', and 'AI washing' by marketers, can leave
cybersecurity teams struggling to remain current.
The
LLM dilemma
LLMs have led to the emergence of
many new tools, which must be assessed and assured so that adoption
is controlled and does not pose legal, reputational, or commercial
threats. Simultaneously, LLMs have empowered would-be attackers by
lowering the barriers to launching successful attacks.
Crossword has already led a
significant initiative in investigating the application of
Generative AI to cyber security. This has been conducted with major
industry partners and leading universities, including academics
from Oxford University and MIT in the USA and AI researchers from
the world famous Alan Turing Institute.
Helping enterprises keep pace with AI
innovation
The CyberAI Practice will provide
organisations with advisory, security testing and engineering
services, which will allow organisations to manage AI threats and
grasp the opportunities to improve efficiency, cybersecurity, and
create new experiences for end users. Following its launch,
the CyberAI Practice is offering the following services:
· Engineering -
Modular services designed to support the
assessment and development of LLM architectures, LLM security
testing, design and security architecture reviews, and wider
LLM-related engineering services
· CyberAI onsite workshops
- Education and maturity workshops
to help organisations understand the market, assess their needs and
existing AI use, and consult on whether to 'build or
buy'
James Henry, Consulting Innovation
Director at Crossword Cybersecurity said: "The latest wave of AI
technologies hit the security industry with such pace that many
businesses have been struggling to keep up. At Crossword it
is our mission to provide businesses with the knowledge and tools
needed to securely embrace the benefits of Generative AI
technologies, whilst also managing the associated
risks."
Further information relating to the
CyberAI practice and Crossword Cybersecurity's Consulting business
can be found here.
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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:
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 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, 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/