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UK company 10031742, incorporated on 29 February 2016.
Home - Cyber Owl - Cybersecurity analytics for operational assets
Helping maritime fleet operators gain visibility, cybersecurity and cyber compliance of shipboard systems with IMO 2021.
Company number 10031742
Financial period: 1 Jan 2024 to 31 Dec 2024
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CyberOwl is a cybersecurity company commercialising Coventry's patent pending research into early warning of cyber attacks in extremely large scale environments such as the Internet of Things and Smart Cities. It is based on the research of Dr Siraj Shaikh (Coventry University) and was founded by Dr Shaikh and Tom Ilube (of Crossword Cybersecurity) both of whom collaborated with the External Champion (including in the November 2015 workshop on Innovation Challenges in Cybersecurity).
CyberOwl develops software which aims to detect early warnings of cyber attacks, specialising in the maritime sector.
Mercia Fund Management provided the seed funding. In May, Crossword and the University of Warwick won a Ministry of Defence contract for a proof of concept for blockchain enabled smart documents.In January 2017 CyberOwl was selected to join the first cohort in GCHQ's Cyber Accelerator Programme.
11 Jan 2021 to 11 Jul 2022
CyberOwl proposes a project to develop a security monitoring system for cyber-physical risks to IT, IIoT and OT systems in the maritime and smart grid sectors. The innovation will provide real-time visibility and cyber-physical risk analytics to the asset operators, alongside an active intervention capability which can produce automated cyber responses ba...
1 Mar 2018 to 31 Aug 2018
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are critically dependent on a range of software components that underpin connectivity and control on the vehicular platform. As such CAVs and associated transport infrastructure are vulnerable to cyber attacks that seek to disrupt and damage operations. A number of recent attacks on CAVs demonstrate the need for a ...
1 Sep 2017 to 31 Jan 2018
Network security monitoring needs an early warning system. Attacks are getting slower, stealthier and more sophisticated. The average detection time of a security breach is lengthening, resulting in the wrong balance of reactive and proactive defence, and driving up the total cost of security and remediation. Existing monitoring tools will simply fail to ...