Plurilock Security (PLUR.V) was selected to participate in the annual GeekWeek 7.5 workshop hosted by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security.
The workshop is by-invite and draws participating members from the cybersecurity field to discuss specifics about the industry to discuss best practices and innovations and solutions for the industry. When they held it in 2020, they had 200 participants and a contributed aggregate total of 16,000 hours of research, development, and innovation. From it came 80 different projects.
“With the growing cyber threat, innovation in cybersecurity and zero trust are more critical than ever. As a leader in the zero trust identity space, Plurilock is excited to participate and collaborate in efforts on the government-level with the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security to improve cyber defenses. Being recognized as a leader in the industry demonstrates Plurilock’s success in acting on its stated strategy to acquire profitable cybersecurity companies with great customers and provide cutting-edge identity confirmation solutions that protect workforces,” said Ian L. Paterson, CEO of Plurilock.
GeekWeek carves out time and opportunity for its participants to devote time and resources to focusing on research and development to help with prevention, analysis and mitigation of cyber threats. It enables participants from critical incident response teams (CIRTs) and critical infrastructure partners in government, finance, heatlth and more, as well as academic and international cyber security partners to collaborate on finding new ways to improve the overall cybersecurity landscape.
GeekWeek has produced innovations and advances in the following areas:
- Malware detection
- Spam and log analysis
- Mobile malware analysis systems
- Anti-ransomware
- Tools and techniques to detect cyber threats
- Information sharing technologies and standards
- Cyber sovereignty/geographic data flows
- Cyber health and forecasts
- Botnet traffic analysis
- Hardening of IoT devices
- Industrial control systems assessment
- Fly-away kit/laptops
- Enforcement processes
- Automated malware analysis
GeekWeek has been around since 2014 and delivered over 80 projects that have made a difference in terms of malware analysis, cyber health, network traffic and log analysis.
—Joseph Morton