About Cyber Tzar

Cyber Tzar was established to help businesses improve their understanding and management of cyber risk by using quantitative Cyber Scoring.

Our Key Principles

We are a global, industry-leading Cyber Risk Management Platform. We help organisations of all sizes, and from anywhere in the world, to become more secure through providing cyber security insights, analysis and intelligence.

Gain your Cyber Essentials Certification with comprehensive, real-time and regular access to your vulnerabilities.

Experts

Engineering excellence and continual cyber innovation, deploying the latest technologies.

Trusted

Established status within cyber security and with contributions to UK and Commonwealth policies.

Accurate

Our Cyber Security Risk Assessment is comprehensive with scores based on hundreds of thousands of tests.

Fair

All clients receive the same level of scrutiny in their Cyber Security Audit with a score based on their vulnerabilities.

Transparent

Our methodology is open to scrutiny and our Cyber Security Analytics are easy to digest and understand.

Universal

Our service is available globally and allows for comparisons between organisations in any country.

Our Goals

  • To make the internet a safer and more equitable place for everyone to enjoy
  • To empower our partners to better understand their cyber risk and to help them achieve increased cyber resilience
  • To produce clear, easy-to-understand and actionable Cyber Security Analytics
  • To encourage cyber security to be a key part of the culture and mindset within your business
  • To make cyber security accessible and user-friendly to all so that every team member is informed on cyber vulnerabilities

Meet the team

The widespread adoption of quantitative Cyber Security Scoring is the key to a more secure internet.

Martin Hockly

Chief Executive
Officer

A top-level strategic thinker.

A leader with considerable experience in developing business models to deliver agreed strategies.

A first-class financial controller, accountant and administrator.

Developer of financial services software, particularly loan portfolio administration and P2P management systems.

Experienced board member and Company Secretary.

Delivered one of the UK’s leading CDFIs from inception to UK wide platform adoption initially based on the Micro-Fiance paradigm, followed by successful delivery of a financial services start up from launch to second round funding.

   Martin on LinkedIn 

Wayne Horkan 

Head of Engineering
and Technology

A talented, successful and experienced technologist and business leader with an extensive career in IT / IS, with over twenty-five years specialising in Enterprise Architecture, Systems Engineering, and the composition, delivery, and implementation of large scale and critical systems with complex requirements.

Strategy, roadmap, design and development of the UK’s Border Control Platform for Border Force, the Home Office “Common Data Platform” hosting person centric data and services shared amongst the Police, Immigration, Border Force, Visa and Passports, and Secret Services.

   Wayne on LinkedIn 

Rob Heap 

Head of Infrastructure
and Operations Management

An in-demand and superlative infrastructure specialist with over 20 industry experience including specific cyber security assignments with five years at Enforce Technologies.

Formally Head of desktop, business systems, and central infrastructure, including “owning the floor”, for four years at Thames Cook Online.

Before that Bob worked on the network rollout of HSBC’s global data centre and earlier in his career cut his teeth as a systems integrator with Zen Zero Solutions.

Bob was recently contracted to the Staffordshire Police Service working on their global network refresh.

   Rob on LinkedIn 

Rob Hall

Social Media
Management

Manning the helm on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, our Social Media Marketing guru’s track record as an entrepreneur is legendary.

One of the first people to identify the opportunity to bring together symbiotic business activities in an under-utilised space, Rob has been involved in a number of innovative small business start-ups.

Analytically minded, Rob spent a number of years working at the Forensic Science Service (FSS) laboratory assisting in the high-profile cases and brings that experience, insight and drive to the team at Cyber Tzar.

   Rob on LinkedIn 

Ben Noll

Head of
Software Engineering

With over 18 years of industry experience, Ben is an expert in his field and has worked in several environments with a number of technologies.

Formally an Operations Executive, he worked closely with the software development team and honed his skills during his eight years at Thomas Cook online.

Then moving to Delta Safety Tech Inc as a full-time developer, Ben further developed his skills in software engineering, which has helped him become the expert that he is today.

   Ben on LinkedIn 

Andrew Horkan

Cyber Security Tech.
Support Engineer

Andrew has over eight years of experience in delivering and supporting technology solutions, principally in the following areas: customer and client technical support, website design, development, and management, database development, operations, and administration.

After working at VoiceMobile as a database administrator (4 years) and then TrueCommerce as a managed service desk technician (2 years), Andrew decided to do both freelance web design and development work with a Technical Support role at Sports Specific Management Ltd (2 Years).

   Andy on LinkedIn 

Who are Cyber Tzar?

Cyber Tzar is a market-leading SaaS Cyber Security and Vulnerability Analysis and Reporting Platform, pioneered by some of the UK’s most experienced cyber security experts.

Our range of automated risk assessment and management tools help organisations understand their cyber security status and provide clear and easy to understand reports on any issues that need to be resolved.

All our testing and risk-based tools combine leading cyber security scanning and penetration testing technology based on industry protocols, OWASP, NIST and MITRE, with easy-to-use analytics to help you understand your exposure to risk.