What Crossword does
Crossword Cybersecurity PLC (LON:CCS) has two main products: Rizikon Assurance, a risk assessment tool that helps companies evaluate their suppliers and other third parties and Nixer, a machine-learning-based cybersecurity tool.
How it’s doing
In January, Crossword Cybersecurity said it expects to report revenue growth and full-year results that are in line with market expectations despite what it said was a “challenging 2020”.
In a trading update for the year to December 31, 2020, the company said overall revenues are expected to show an increase of 25% to £1.6mln, within which product and consulting revenues are expected to expand by 39% reflecting its shift to a core of products and consulting sales from software development services.
Crossword said software and process development had continued during 2020 with the launch of its Rizikon Pro software-as-a-service solution in July, noting that the product is “transforming the sales model” with a much shorter sales cycle and “impressively high conversion from trials to paying clients”
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Sales progress with the new Rizikon supplier assurance platform aimed at SMEs