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With National European Cyber Security Month shining a spotlight on some of the UK's leading tech companies in the cyber sector, SoGlos showcases 26 of the Gloucestershire businesseshelping to make the county the UK's cyber capital.

From homegrown tech start-ups to multinational organisations drawn to the county by its strong reputation, we reveal some of the best in the industry...

SGGBA winner for Cyber Business of the Yearand Gloucester tech giant Salus Cyberis a certified provider of world-class cybersecurity services. It helps clients identify and manage their cyber risks proactively and effectively and is the cyber security partner of choice for industry-leading organisations throughout the UK and Europe. Based at Eagle Tower in Cheltenham.

This Cheltenham-headquartered firm based in Eagle Tower describes itself as countering global money laundering, terrorism, and criminal networks. Founded by former members of GCHQ,Ripjardevelops software that combines automation, data visualisation and the ever-expanding features of AI to tackle complex threats to our digital society.

An official Gloucestershire B Corp, Optimising IT provides a range of services from cyber security improvement to complete outsourced IT department services, for organisations that need help managing their IT or require consultancy about changes such as mergers or acquisitions. Based at Twigworth Court Business Centre in Gloucester.

North Green Security is a UK-based cyber security training and consultancy company, with offices in Eagle Tower in Cheltenham. Its aim is to assist in providing a more secure future by ensuring more people at all levels of learning can contribute to an ever-growing and evolving industry, with companies benefitting from strategic assessments conducted by its knowledgeable consultants.

Based in Quedgeley and working with a range of organisations from SMEs to government bodies, Infrastaris a specialist computer networking andinfrastructure company. Its expertise lies in assisting organisations insecuring the IT hardware and solutions they require to operate at optimumefficiency,' from assessing current network environments to the full-scalenetwork design and implementation.

SGGBA Team of the Year 2023 winners,Bamboo Technology, worksto improve other businesses through its extensive IT and telecommunicationsexpertise and it designs and delivers digitally assured solutions for thehybrid workforce. Its headquarters are at Gloucestershire Colleges Cheltenhamcampus.

Based out of Gloucestershire's Hub8, Berta Pappenheimfounded CyberFish in 2018 to build organisational resilience in a way that issustainable, focusing on the psychology of a team so it becomes self-improvingand never goes out of date a few updates later. CyberFish works withmission-critical departments in governments, law enforcement and globalorganisations.

Amiosec specialises in the design and development of securesolutions for government and commercial organisations. The Tewkesbury-based business providesa range of next generation advanced mobile and remote access solutions thatprovide secure mobile communications across public networks. Its products aresimple to configure, easy to use.

Tewkesbury-based business Synalogik describes itself as a team ofopen-source intelligence, data processing and automation experts from across the intelligence, law enforcement and investigation industries. Its vision is to revolutionise the automation of targeted data collection and analysis, allowing organisations to make 'smarter decisions.' The team also won a prestigious Queen's Award for Innovation in 2022.

With thousands of courses spanning health and safety to data protection,Nimble Elearningscloud-based elearning platform is well-used by individuals and businesses alike. Its intuitive tools have also helped clients create thousandsmore courses too. In short, the Stonehouse firm is enabling a revolution UK-wide in thedelivery of effective, affordable, dynamic online training.

Founded byGloucestershire-based Chris Dunning-Walton, this boutique cyber andtechnology recruitment consultancy prides itself on its ability to inspire talented people to find careers that inspire them. Working exclusively within the IT sector, with specialism areas in cyber security, software development and engineering, the award-winning Infosec is based in the Eagle Tower in Cheltenham, with offices in Bristol, too. Dunning-Walton is also a key member of Gloucestershire-basedcyber networking and support group CyNam.

Founded in 2016, Savient is a bespoke software consultancy firm based in Hub8 in the Brewery Quarter in Cheltenham that uses software technology solutions and services to help customers solve business problems and unlock the value in their data. It says its mission is to find and deliver solutionsusing software technology, so your business can work faster and moreefficiently, while meeting emerging opportunities', adding 'we work closely with youapplying our creative, intuitive and adaptive thinking to deliver technologythat works the way your business thinks.

If you want a simple to understand, but sophisticatedsolution to your businesss cyber security concerns, Cheltenham-basedReformIT iscapturing a growing market of firms from all sectors looking to put their IT inthe hands of a business which can manage all its software, hardware, updates,cyber attacks and even training all under one roof.

P3M Works delivers cyber security and digital transformation projects across both private and public sector clients. Its collaboration ofpermanent, technical delivery staff and cyber SMEsare based at Cheltenham's home of private sector cyber, Hub8, in the Brewery Quarter.

Blacksmiths Group is a team of human, digital and physical security specialists who will develop your businesss capability to tackle security challenges and defend against complex threats. The Cheltenham firm provides consultancy and develops technologies to solve problems. Its teams are highly experienced technical and security experts with skills acquired in UK government and the tech industry.

North Tower Consulting is a software solutions consultancy based in Cheltenham, providing professional expertise in cyber security, cloud computing and much more. Set up in 2019 by its founding business partner, the business has gone from strength to strength, with major government contract wins and now a team of more than 50 people onboard.

Another Cheltenham-based company, Gemba Advantage, which was co-founded by Shelley Wood, is a tech development firm that builds high-impact software for businesses.Itspartners include the UK government and the National Crime Agency.Its teamcan build and maintain high quality software to help your business make the mostof its technological investments.

Founded in 2020 byRobert Diamond, Craig Morgan and Craig Stocks who bring years of experienceworking within the cyber security, defence and IT sectors, Cheltenham-based, HamiltonianDynamics provides 'high performance, big impact mission critical software', anddoes so for multiple government departments, as well as being a design anddevelopment consultancy agency.

This Cheltenham-basedfirm was started by a husband-and-wife team in 2016 and has operated primarily in the defence sector for the past few years. Fat Potato worked across multiple major projects deliveringsoftware solutions in challenging and demanding environments and has provenexpertise in a wide array of technical specialisms. It works with businesses totransform their applications and enhance performance.

Established in 2013,Cyber Security Associates (CSA) provides cyber consultancy and cyber managedservices which help to detect, protect and educate against the ever-changing threat of cyber attacks. It has built a team from government (ex-military) andcommercially experienced specialists all holding current and relevant cybercertifications. Today, its core services are based around a 24/7 securityoperations centre in Gloucester.

This Cirencester firm is dedicated to assisting organisations to adopt cloud services andtechnologies securely, whilst understanding the continued challenges of acomplex hybrid environment. Somerford Associates will work as your trusted partner and as part of yourteam to deliver success. Its aim is to meet customers needs with afocus on service quality and delivery for on-premises, hybrid or full cloudenvironments.

CoreTech is a niche cyber security company whose people aremotivated by the desire to deliver exceptional capabilities coupled with a realsense of mission. Its Cheltenham-based team is highly experienced, deeply technical,and blend vulnerability research, research engineering and software developmentskills.

Cirencester-based Core to Cloud is an SGGBA 2022 award winner and its founder, James Cunningham,was named in The Times LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders list in the same year. Describing itself as your 'cyber security sidekick', its services include cyber security gap analysis, MDR, crisis simulating and dark web monitoring.

Started and run by engineers from the UK intelligence anddefence communities, and headquartered in Cheltenham's Eagle Tower, Red Maple Technologies is a technicalconsultancy and product company. Founded to help organisations of all sizesprotect themselves from cybersecurity threats, it solves technical and security problems with technical solutions.

Another resident of Gloucestershires home of private sector cyber, Hub8 but in its Gloucestershire College campus workspace Indeloy specialises in helpingcustomers find the right IT solution for their needs. It can source a widevariety of products and provide services such as hardware disposal, softwareerasure, licence management and more.

Headquartered in New York but with a UK base in the Brewery Quarter's cyber hot spot, Hub8, Cylera is pioneering IoT (Internet of Things) security and intelligence to protect what matters most people, safety, privacy and business continuity. Specialising in support for the healthcare sector, it delivers acyber security platform that discovers devices, analyses network traffic andrisk, detects vulnerabilities, continuously identifies threats or maliciousdevices and helps reduce attacks.

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26 Gloucestershire tech companies leading the UK's cyber sector - SoGlos