Belfast-headquartered Pytilia is one of the latest group of companies to be onboarded by Digital Catapult to the Digital Security by Design (DSbD) Technology Access Programme.
The software consultancy company have been involved with DSbD from its initial phase and were one of ten UK-wide winners of the 2021 DSbD Software Ecosystem competition.
During their initial project, Pytilia were able to successfully demonstrate that using DSbD technology for critical networking infrastructure is both relevant and feasible. Specifically, the project focused on addressing a key performance vs security tradeoff currently found in low latency applications such as packet processing, a core networking concept at the heart of many devices that deliver the day-to-day connectivity we all enjoy.
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At the time, Prof. John Goodacre, Challenge Director, Digital Security by Design, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) commented: “It bodes well for the security of our digital world that Pytilia have been able to show that DSbD technologies are able to block software vulnerabilities from exploitation in highly complex, high-performance applications such as packet processing”
Pytilia’s original project was completed in collaboration with the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) based at Queen’s University Belfast and benefited from UKRI/DSbD funding.
This funding for collaborative research and development projects enabled companies across the UK, like Pytilia, to begin developing a software ecosystem, encouraging serious adoption of Digital Security by Design Technologies ahead of hardware availability.
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Thanks to the DSbD Technology Access Programme, managed by Digital Catapult, Pytilia have now received their “Arm Morello” demonstrator board and have just started the next phase of their research & development project.
Tim Silversides, one of Pytilia’s co-founders said: "We were delighted to participate in the first phase of the DSbD programme. Now, thanks to the Digital Catapult Technology Access Programme, we’re looking forward to building on that success and continuing on the journey to a more secure future with DSbD”.
Source: Written from press release.
