Silicon:SAFE under new management

12th November 2018, Cambridge UK, Si-Safe Ltd announced today the completion of their acquisition of Silicon Safe Ltd, manufactures of cyber-security hardware. The award-winning product Password:Protect embeds traditional software functions into hardware where they cannot be altered by hackers. “We are very excited to have acquired the Silicon Safe technology and will be commencing development…

Silicon Safe named in Techword’s most promising UK Cyber Security startups

July 2017, Techworld has identified Silicon Safe as one of the UK’s most promising Cyber Security Startups. Silicon Safe is unique in that it has invested its development cash in a hardware-based product that protects credentials with a radical architecture in which data enters but never leaves an appliance. Read the story

Locking Passwords Away – For Good

27 JAN 2016 Nick Lowe The definition of madness is doing the same thing repeatedly but expecting a different result, as the old saying goes. It certainly sums up the current approaches to preventing bulk data theft from organizations’ networks and websites – in particular, the theft of users’ account passwords. The same, familiar methods…

Silicon Safe receives Technology Strategy Board grant for Cyber Theft Solution

Silicon Safe (Cambridge and Adastral Park, UK), the cyber security company, today announces that it has been awarded a £25,000 Proof of Market grant by the UK’s innovation agency, formerly known as the Technology Strategy Board (TSB). This award will help fund market research into market requirements for protection against the theft of usernames, passwords,…

Silicon Safe Launches ‘Unstealable’ Password ‘Hacker Challenge’

Innovation Martlesham company Silicon Safe announces an open challenge for hackers and cybersecurity experts to attempt to steal usernames and passwords from its challenge server appliance. The challenge is announced on the second day of the CyberExpo at Excel, London, where the company is exhibiting in the ‘Futures Den’ which is at stand V4, and…

Tech Trailblazers recognition for Adastral Park-based Silicon Safe

Silicon Safe, which operates from a development centre at Innovation Martlesham, on BT’s Adastral Park site near Ipswich, was among the finalists in the Storage category of the Tech Trailblazers awards, open to firms up to five years old. Read the story

Silicon Safe targets US cyber security market

Another cyber security company from the Cambridge UK technology hotspot is blazing a trail towards the lucrative US market. Read the story

Latest IT startup gems unearthed in Tech Trailblazers Awards shortlist – Silicon Safe is Finalist in Storage and Firestarter categories.

London, UK – 3rd December 2014 – The Tech Trailblazers Awards, the first annual awards program for enterprise information technology startups, today announced the third edition finalists in the categories of Big Data, Cloud, Emerging Markets, Mobile, Networking, Security, Storage, Sustainable IT, Virtualization, as well as new additions ‘FinTech’ and ‘IoT’ (Internet of Things) categories,…

iExpo – great success for Innovation Martlesham and the New Anglia LEP

iExpo was organised by the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). It attracted more than 50 businesses and support organisations, and more than 500 visitors, at an event hosted by BT at Adastral Park on November 20th. Five companies from within the IM cluster- OXEMS, Silicon Safe, GlazeAlarm, Banbury Howard, BT – were showcased at…

Cambridge technology fights mass password theft

Hackers are being challenged by a Cambridge UK technology startup to try to prise data from a digital Fort Knox that the founders believe is impenetrable to cyber attacks on passwords and usernames via the internet. Their safe-harbour hardware – originally branded Iridium Server [now Password Protect] – will remain in stealth until Q3 of…