Cyber Tzar Announces Strategic Partnership with VORTX Group

Bringing Strategic Cyber Risk Visibility to Leadership Teams Across the UK

Cyber Tzar is delighted to announce a new strategic partnership with VORTX Group, a Cyber Risk & Capability Partner helping organisations understand where cyber exposure, operational pressure and capability uncertainty exist before committing to further action or investment.

This collaboration brings together Cyber Tzar’s award-winning cyber risk intelligence and supply chain risk management platform with VORTX Group’s commercially led approach to risk visibility, capability alignment and organisational resilience.

Together, we will help organisations move beyond simply identifying cyber threats to understanding how cyber risk could affect business performance, operational resilience and leadership decision-making.

A Shared Vision

Cyber resilience is no longer just a technical challenge. It is a business challenge.

Both Cyber Tzar and VORTX Group share the belief that organisations should make cyber decisions based on evidence rather than assumption.

VORTX’s principle of “Clarity Before Action” complements Cyber Tzar’s mission to provide organisations with continuous visibility into cyber exposure across their own estate and, increasingly, across their supply chains.

By combining Cyber Tzar’s real-time cyber risk intelligence with VORTX’s focus on commercial context, operational impact and capability alignment, organisations can better understand what their exposure means, what genuinely requires attention and what the most appropriate next step should be.

About VORTX Group

Led by Sharissa Gannaway and Ebele Ossai, VORTX Group was established after recognising that many organisations already have cyber technology, internal teams, outsourced providers and established suppliers in place, yet still lack a clear and joined-up view of where exposure, ownership and capability gaps exist.

VORTX operates between business risk and specialist delivery. Its role is to help organisations understand what is happening beneath the surface, define the real problem and determine what capability or support is genuinely required.

Everything VORTX does is built around three core principles:

Expose Risk: Create visibility across cyber exposure, operational dependencies, supplier risk and areas of unclear ownership.
Structure Capability: Define the internal, external or specialist capability required in response to the evidence.
Direct Outcomes: Align the organisation with the appropriate action, expertise or delivery route.

VORTX does not assume that new technology, recruitment or consultancy support is automatically the answer. Its approach creates clarity first, helping leadership teams avoid reactive decisions and focus attention and investment where they will have the greatest operational and commercial value.

What This Partnership Delivers

Together, Cyber Tzar and VORTX Group will help organisations:

• Build leadership-level visibility of cyber and operational risk.
• Understand how third-party exposure could affect business continuity and customer delivery.
• Strengthen visibility across critical suppliers and external dependencies.
• Identify gaps between perceived resilience and available evidence.
• Translate technical findings into meaningful business and operational context.
• Prioritise attention and investment based on evidence rather than assumption.
• Determine where additional capability or specialist support is genuinely required.
• Maintain visibility through continuous monitoring where appropriate.

As organisations continue to navigate increasing regulatory expectations and an evolving cyber threat landscape, this partnership brings together continuous risk intelligence, commercial understanding and structured routes to action.

Andrew Horkan, Founder of Cyber Tzar, said:

“We’re excited to be partnering with Sharissa, Ebele and the VORTX Group team. Their strategic approach to cyber governance and capability perfectly complements Cyber Tzar’s technical expertise and supply chain risk intelligence. Together, we’re helping organisations gain the clarity they need to make informed decisions and build genuine cyber resilience.”

Sharissa Gannaway and Ebele Ossai of VORTX Group said:

“At VORTX, we believe resilience starts with visibility. Most organisations already have technology, suppliers and specialist support in place. The challenge is understanding where exposure still exists, how it could affect operations and what genuinely requires action.

Partnering with Cyber Tzar enables us to combine continuous cyber risk intelligence with VORTX’s commercially led approach to visibility, capability and decision-making. Together, we can give leadership teams clearer evidence before they invest, intervene or assume an issue is already covered.”

Limited VORTX Partnership Pilot

To mark the launch of the partnership, VORTX Group is opening a limited pilot for a small number of UK organisations that want to better understand their external cyber exposure and critical supplier dependencies.

The pilot is designed for organisations that already have cyber controls, internal teams or outsourced providers in place but lack a clear, leadership-level view of:

• Which external dependencies present the greatest potential exposure.
• How supplier-related cyber risk could affect operations, customers or contractual delivery.
• Where perceived resilience is not supported by current evidence.
• What genuinely requires further attention and what does not.

Through the pilot, VORTX will work with participating organisations to define the relevant scope, interpret the intelligence produced through Cyber Tzar and translate the findings into clear business, operational and capability priorities. This is not a generic cyber assessment or a route into a predetermined solution. It is an opportunity to establish what the evidence shows, understand what it means for the organisation and determine the most proportionate next step.

Places will be deliberately limited as VORTX develops the first group of organisations supported through the partnership.

Organisations responding directly to this partnership announcement can use referral code CT15 to receive 15% off the VORTX pilot fee.

The referral discount applies exclusively to VORTX’s pilot fee. Cyber Tzar’s platform, intelligence and monitoring services remain subject to Cyber Tzar’s standard scope and commercial pricing.

To register an interest, contact VORTX Group at info@vortx-group.com with the subject line VORTX Partnership Pilot, quoting CT15, or visit vortx-group.com.

Looking Ahead

As cyber security continues to evolve into a board-level business priority, Cyber Tzar and VORTX Group are committed to helping organisations create greater visibility, understand operational exposure and make better-informed resilience decisions.

This partnership represents another important milestone in Cyber Tzar’s growing ecosystem of strategic partners, bringing together specialist expertise to help organisations secure what matters most.

For more information about VORTX Group, visit:

VORTX Group | Cyber Risk & Capability Partner