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Hello, I'm Rupert Harris, the managing
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editor of Cityan and I'm here with
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Shannon Simpson, the CEO and co-founder
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of Cyro Cyber. We're here at the uh
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Growth 500 awards by business leader in
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the fantastic Sky Garden. Hello.
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Nice to meet you. Um can you give us
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give us a brief overview overview of
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Yeah, SARS Cyber we are a professional
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and managed services business. We
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provide cyber security services to the
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nation's critical digital
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infrastructure. Um from financial
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services through to critical n critical
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national infrastructure um whether that
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be railways, highways, uh utilities. Um,
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we specialize in working in very complex
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environments. Um, as the UK tries to
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leverage its assets and leverage some of
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the more legacy technology that it has,
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that's where we come in to try and
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secure those environments and and and
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and help the the nation function as as
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And how does it feel being one of the
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fastest growing businesses in the UK?
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Well, I was delighted to find out that
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that was the case. um you know this it's
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it's it's not the the first business
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that uh my co-founder and I have started
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in in this world and um and doing it
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second time round obviously means that
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we could do things quicker um and and
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therefore to have have been able to
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achieve this growth um using our our
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previous experience is uh has been
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fantastic and and and and that
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recognition the recognition of tonight
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is is is just a bit of icing on the cake
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for what we're doing.
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And what is it like starting and scaling
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a business in the UK? Uh well it's it's
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it's different to how it how it has
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been. Um we we we businesses can spin up
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so quickly these days. Technology cloud
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technology um the lack of infrastructure
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investment required the lack of office
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space required you to working from home
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means that you can get down to what
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you're good at quite quickly. Um I don't
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think that's pertinent just UK that
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that's globally. Um but in the UK at the
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moment there is a wealth of talent that
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we can leverage on. um there's you know
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some really um compelling business
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models that we we can use and have used
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in order in order to do that and a great
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deal of support from the private sector
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as well. So yeah, it's a good place to
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And uh what are you most excited about
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looking out in the world today both in
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cyber and the UK growth scene?
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Um sounds quite boring but we're um the
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cyber security um and resilience bill is
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about to be passed in parliament. Um and
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this is a a serious uh enforcement by
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the UK government on making sure that
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the entire supply chain uh for
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organizations is is taken seriously. Uh
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it's a mandate from the government for
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uh all organizations that supply UK
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government and the UK um uh PLC to to
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take cyber security seriously. Uh it
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empowers the regulators to uh really
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enforce those things. And so for us it's
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going to be a bit of a gamecher and and
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will only help accelerate our growth to
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help those organizations you know
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achieve those achieve those mandates.
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And what about on the wider tech scene
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Um well the wider tech scene is is is
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one of those things we have to fight
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against. Um uh again not to
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be boring about it but the challenges of
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AI the challenges of cloud-based u
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applications more and more technology
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that's all new attack surface. It's it's
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all um it's all new areas for uh the
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criminals and uh the the nation state
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actors to to have a go at if you like.
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So uh so for us it it it means that it's
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more work for us um in order to try and
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keep keep ahead of that. But a challenge
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we're looking forward to.
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Okay. Great. Thank you Shannon. Thank
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you very much for your time today. Enjoy
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Thank you very much. Pleasure. Cheers.
