SOLVD CASE STUDY: Lockdown Cybersecurity Ltd

Lockdown Cybersecurity is a provider of Cyber awareness training for all levels of business and a facilitator for obtaining comprehensive insurance cover, both helping to reduce business digital risk. They are in the process of developing a SaaS platform to widen their service offering.  

The company developed and structured their roadmap to build their platform but they haven’t got the expertise to build in the functionality and make it prototype. The company also wanted to validate the proof of concept, to help design additional layers of functionality.   

The SOLVD workshop was therefore a useful boot camp of understanding different ways of achieving and learning new technologies bringing a pool of expertise from the academia, advisers and other businesses to exchange experience and to widen their views of different industries.  

By the end of the workshop the company was able to refine their sales pitch, modify their roadmap and expand on their initial methodology, having had it validated through academia. 

Karen Morrall, Co – founder of Lockdown Cyber Security commented: 

"This programme made clear our business proposition, uniqueness, sharpened our pitch to stakeholders whilst providing the correct road map to build our prototype. The  SOLVD workshop provided us with new technology to use within our business, which adapted our business plan and brought it to life, maintaining our business agility and creating the roadmap to assist in the creation of our software prototype. 

Being Entrepreneurs in a start-up can be a lonely space. This initiative provided us a support mechanism. This experience has shown the value the University can bring, to start-up businesses, throughout its business journey. 

The expertise, technology, support and industry acumen which the University provided were invaluable for Lockdown Cyber Security."  

Lockdown Cybersecurity Ltd would like to thank the University for its on-going support and would highly recommend any organisation to go through this process. We look forward to working with the University in the future.