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Becrypt Ltd. is a UK company that provides cyber security https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_security products and services, with customers ranging from government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government and defence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense to businesses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business. The company headquarters are in London, UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London.

History

Becrypt was founded in 2001 by technologists active within the UK government Information Assurance sector, lead by its then CTO Dr. Bernard Parsons MBE (ref 1). The company focused on the development of government-certified products for regulated sectors, including UK Government and the wider critical national infrastructure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_infrastructure. A round of Angel Investment in 2002 from Gary Thomas, who later became Chief Operating Officer, and a UK Government Smart Award (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_(grant_scheme)), sustained the business through to product revenue generation and boot-strapped growth.

Becrypt’s products were focused on endpoint device security, initially adopted by defence contractors such as Qinetiq https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qinetiq (ref 2) for protecting restricted classified data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information, and by 2010 were deployed widely across the UK Public Sector including the Ministry of Defence (ref 3). The acquisition of Data Sentry from Serco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serco in 2005 (ref 4), supported Becrypt’s entry into the higher-levels of government assurance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_Assurance_Level.

In 2008, Becrypt launched a distribution channel to make commercial product variants more widely available to private sector organisations (ref 5).

In 2010 Becrypt expanded to offer specialist engineering and cyber security related services to complement its product offerings, supplying services via UK Government’s G-Cloud (ref 6).

In 2015, Becrypt joined the government-industry Cyber Growth Partnership initiative (ref 7), providing industry engagement in support of the National Cyber Security Strategy (ref 8), Chaired by The Right Honourable Ed Vaizey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Vaizey).

Products

The company initially specialised in disk encryption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_encryption solutions, with variants of its Disk Protect product created for both private and government sectors. Government certifications include NCSC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cyber_Security_Centre_(United_Kingdom) Commercial Product Assurance (ref 9,10) for EU, UK and NATO (ref 11), FIPS 140-2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140-2 (ref 12), and the NCSC Enhanced Grade Standard (ref 13) for UK Secret.

From 2016, Becrypt worked with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cyber_Security_Centre_(United_Kingdom) on a research project called Cloud Client project (ref 14) that sought to develop standards to promote the safe use of end user devices https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endpoint_security. The research project demonstrated measured software execution with a hardware root of trust for device health measurements as part of a standards-based remote attestation protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing#Remote_attestation. The project aimed to support secure sharing of IT infrastructure and services across government, and was a pre-cursor to later work on Zero Trust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Trust Networks by NCSC (ref 15).

In 2017, Becrypt’s security-focused operating system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system - Paradox was developed from Cloud Client standards (ref 16) and has been deployed across UK Government.

From 2018, Becrypt was engaged on a government research programme to evolve its existing Mobile Device Management https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_device_management platform to be compatible with the network architecture requirements for government classified networks, including cross domain gateway compatibility.

Becrypt offer a range of related services, including Managed Security Operating Centre (SOC) services (ref https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_security_operations_center and Cyber Security Consultancy through the UK Government Digital Marketplace (ref 17)

References

1. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/2938533 2. https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2005/08/22/qinetiq-deploys-becrypts-disk-protect-to-secure-data/ 3. https://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240085930/MoD-reinforces-guard-on-20000-laptops 4. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/10/becrypt_buys_data_sentry/ 5. https://www.channelweb.co.uk/news/1884005/becrypt-appoints-fifth-distributor 6. https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/g-cloud/supplier/93003 7. https://onlineprnews.com/news/637526-1446040721-becrypt-supports-new-cyber-security-initiative-between-government-industry-and-academia.html/ 8. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cyber-security-strategy-2016-to-2021 9. https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/commercial-product-assurance-cpa 10. https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/products/becrypt-disk-protect 11. https://www.prosecurityzone.com/News_Detail_Nato_information_assurance_listing_for_software_encryption_20468.asp 12. https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/documents/security-policies/140sp2905.pdf 13. https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/products/becrypt-disk-protect-enhanced 14. https://m.digitalisationworld.com/blogs/55644/cloudclient-origins-of-a-zero-trust-network-deployment-for-uk-government 15. https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/zero-trust-architecture-design-principles 16. https://www.becrypt.com/uk/products/paradox/ 17. https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/g-cloud/services/139316347985096

External links

www.becrypt.com