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FourNet has been named one of the most innovative cybersecurity businesses operating in Britain this year.

FourNet was ranked in 5th place in the Cybersecurity40 2024 which celebrates the tech businesses and startups innovating, changing and disrupting the cybersecurity sector in the UK and Europe.

The newly revealed annual Top 40 list was unveiled by tech publication,TechRound.

One of the judges, Matt Gibney, Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder at adCAPTCHA, said: “Judging 40 cybersecurity companies highlighted several trends shaping the industry. A significant number are leveraging AI, but it was reassuring to see a strong focus on human-first approaches, ensuring that people remain central to the security equation.”

FourNet is one of the fastest-growing privately-owned cybersecurity, digital transformation and customer experience specialists in the UK.

Its highly secure and pioneering ANTENNA cloud platform, designed in partnership with the Cabinet Office, provides communications and cybersecurity technology to more than 30 government departments and agencies, the National Crime Agency and local government.

ANTENNA is also used by a growing number of private sector customers, including financial services and insurance businesses, and is available to all Critical National Infrastructure organisations.

FourNet also operates a 24/7/365 Security Operations Centre (SOC) which employs some of the most skilled cybersecurity experts in the UK and provides monitoring, incident response, and threat intelligence to all types of businesses across Europe around the clock.

Richard Pennington, CEO of FourNet (pictured above), said: “Cybersecurity is a critical pillar of our business. It’s also a crucial and growing consideration for every customer nowadays.

“At FourNet, we combine technology with the best in human expertise which is an important factor highlighted by TechRound’s Cybersecurity40 judges. We are delighted to have been ranked in fifth place among highly esteemed company.”

The ANTENNA service, which was designed in partnership with the Cabinet Office, enables high trust bodies to comply with UK government cyber security, digital and data and national resilience strategies while reducing the cost to the taxpayer.

ANTENNA provides services to more than 40,000 central government employees.

Manchester-headquartered FourNet provides CX, communications, cloud, contact centre, managed service, cybersecurity and secure network infrastructure solutions.