"Even nation states start with the dirty tricks"
Clearwater Digital CTO – former UK government cyber technical lead
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Horizon provides smart threat monitoring for cloud environments
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We utilise extensive government and private sector operational experience to approach and solve common industry problems
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Leading UK government and private sector experts in the fields of Information Security, Cyber Threat Emulation and Intelligence.
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Horizon can be used across all organisation sizes and sectors.
Small Enterprise
Medium Enterprise
Large Enterprise
Government
Third Sector
Benefits of Horizon
Horizon Considerations
Horizon delivers innovative and intuitive cloud assurance for an increasingly complex digital environment. Designed to tackle some of the most existential threats to business operations, Horizon directly contributes to a ‘downskilling' approach, enabling IT and assurance teams to effectively mitigate cyber threats. Horizon primarily addresses:
Event fatigue
The ever-evolving use and integration of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence now creates an overwhelming number of events and false positives for IT security teams.
Skill shortage
Cyber security products require a high degree of technical knowledge in order to interrogate, interpret and identify the validity of possible cyber breaches. This requires an ever-increasing pool of talented or technically qualified professionals to ensure platform optimisation.
Admiral Sir Trevor Soar KCB OBE DEng DL – Chairman
Sir Trevor served in the Royal Navy for 37 years achieving a tremendously successful career, attaining the highest rank in the Service as an Admiral. He held many diverse leadership positions including 5 independent Commands, from diesel submarine Captain as a 29-year-old, to Aircraft Carrier Captain in which his final Command was the whole of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines (36,000 people) as the Commander in Chief. He was also the NATO Maritime Commander with operational command of all ships and submarines from across the 27 NATO countries.
He achieved the fastest promotion of any Admiral in recent history and his career path gave him not only leadership experience at sea but also across the highest levels of Defence, change management and procurement and acquisition, chairing or being a member of the most senior Defence Boards. He gained considerable commercial insight from being responsible for all shipbuilding, procurement and logistics as the first Chief of Materiel (Fleet) in the Defence Equipment and Support organisation (28,000 people).
As Commander in Chief and operational Commander of the Fleet, Sir Trevor had a strong professional link to GCHQ and was very engaged on all aspects of cyber warfare.
Alberto de Benedictis – Vice-chairman
Alberto is an exceptional business leader with over 20 years of board-level engagement and a strong record of performance across multinational operations in the Aerospace, Defence and Security industries.
As the former Chief Executive of Finmeccanica UK, Alberto presided over £2bn of revenues and 8,500 employees. Under his stewardship, Selex ES (now Leonardo) won the contract to become NATO's cyber security mission partner, providing enhanced cyber defence to 52 NATO sites and headquarters throughout 29 countries.
Alberto's profound corporate experience supports Clearwater's accelerating growth and ensures qualified commercial opportunities are duly assessed.
William is a results-driven, passionate Chief Executive and an accomplished entrepreneur. With extensive and immersive knowledge of overseas markets, he has a history of success building security and technology enterprises from inception to scale.
Pioneering innovative risk mitigation and loss prevention strategies widely utilised within the Maritime, Insurance and Government markets, William helps to shape the strategy and direction of the company.
As a founder of Clearwater, William identifies new opportunities and technologies to sustain substantive business growth. Allocating resources within the organisation to create a progressive culture of transparency, dynamism and innovation.
Christopher McGrath – Executive Director (Cyber)
Christopher has an extensive career in the defence and security industry. As the former global head of special projects for a world leading UK/US defence company he was responsible for overseeing the company's Intelligence and Security programs globally.
Christopher was recognized in 2012 by UKDTI for his commercial approach and delivery of high-profile strategy to detecting and mitigating technical and physical risks to the delivery of the Olympic games; including the sensitive management of the Counter Hostile Reconnaissance initiative.
Christopher's entry in 2009 into the private security sector followed an extensive Military Intelligence career managing Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance projects internationally.
Chris Sturgess CREST CCT INF CISSP OSCP – Chief Technology Officer (Cyber)
Chris has been at the forefront of the UK's success in active and defensive cyber operations. Starting his government career at the age of 17, Chris spent over 15 years in the UK's lead cyber intelligence agency, becoming the operational technical lead. Throughout his time in government, Chris developed a unique understanding of cyber threats and requisite tactics, techniques and procedures. Working to develop bespoke software and solutions, Chris supported an agency strategy to increase cyber capability through a 'downskilling' approach. This saw a significant lift in the agency's ability to meet an ever-growing intelligence demand.
Before leaving government service, Chris was actively involved in the UK's national cyber defence programme in identifying and removing hostile state cyber actors from the UK's Critical National Infrastructure (CNI).
Since leaving government Chris has been pivotal in driving change in our understanding and response to cyber risks, through the delivery of 'downskilling' and cross-corporate communicable cyber assurance platforms; capable of reducing loss prevention and cyber fraud.
• Young Presidents' Organization Malaysia
• Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia
• International Directors Summit 2019
• CEFOR The Nordic Association of Marine Insurers
• Oslo Maritime Security Seminar