Improving the Design and Commercialisation Potential of a Novel Cybersecurity Application

Our Client & Their Goals

Facing the challenges of ever evolving cyberthreats, the increasing frequency of cyberattacks, and the potentially catastrophic consequences of a successful cyberattack, companies have recognised that they must take cybersecurity seriously. Our Client had taken the initiative to develop an innovative set of cybersecurity tools to protect their own systems. Their technology used virtual machines to continuously open and analyse files, and could thus test and identify potentially malicious files without placing the host system at risk. 

Our Client had developed their novel cybersecurity technology in-house and needed expert assistance in evaluating whether their technology was more or less effective than similar cybersecurity products on the market. 

Our Client asked us to conduct an expert evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of their technology, and evaluate whether it could address their most significant cybersecurity risks. Depending on our findings, they would decide whether to continue commercialisation of their in-house solution or to purchase an off-the-shelf cybersecurity product that better met their needs.

CamIn’s Solutions

CamIn assembled two teams of technology and industry experts to work with our principals in evaluating the Client’s technology and its suitability for specific cybersecurity applications. The technology team had experience in virtual machines, while our industry team understood the cybersecurity requirements of large modern organisations.

Our industry team analysed our Client’s solutions and identified the key performance indicators (KPIs) that their technology must meet, which were ranked and weighted based on their priority and severity. We eliminated factors that were irrelevant to our evaluation of our Client’s technology and identified the capabilities that an effective cybersecurity solution must provide to meet their specific needs.

Our technology team evaluated individual components of our Client’s technology and identified relevant technical KPIs to be used for further benchmarking. They then identified the top competing technologies at mid and late-stage technology readiness levels (TRLs) and identified their performance on these KPIs. This benchmarking analysis determined where our Client’s technology was superior or inferior to competing solutions. Based on this analysis, our expert team also developed recommendations for specific functional improvements to the design of our Client’s technology. After finalising the blueprint for the improved product, our industrial team drafted a use case for the proposed improved version of our Client’s cybersecurity technology. This analysis detailed where and how the proposed changes to their technology would provide improved performance and capabilities, enabling their solution to better meet their specific cybersecurity needs.

Our Client further improved their technology based on our team’s recommendations and on our detailed use case that demonstrated how their refined technology solution could provide the level of security they needed.

The Impact

Our teams’ expert analysis of the capabilities of our Client’s technology and the requirements it needed to meet enabled us to quickly provide them with actionable advice on improving their technology. This allowed our Client to avoid the trial and error processes of internal development and to understand how their technology compared to other cybersecurity solutions. Our Client further improved their technology based on our team’s recommendations and on our detailed use case that demonstrated how their refined technology solution could provide the level of security they needed.