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RepKnight Founder, John Reid is currently taking part in the USA-UKTI Cyber Mission.

The Trade Mission is being led by a key UK Government figure aiming to bring UK companies to the USA offering an overview of the opportunities, scope and size of business of the US cyber security market. The mission seeks to share best practices between UK and US companies in bringing together two leading communities of practice.

The delegation enjoyed a full schedule in New York yesterday with speakers focusing on cyber security issues, opportunities, and challenges in the US private/financial services sector. Later today they travel to Pittsburgh where the schedule focus will move to cover the latest technological advancements in cyber security and government-industry collaboration.

John will be addressing the delegation tomorrow afternoon on ‘Leveraging Open Source Intelligence for Law Enforcement’ demonstrating the harvesting, mapping and analysis of large volumes of data to provide actionable intelligence in real time.

The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT), the UK’s lead university centre for cyber security research has today announced that RepKnight has become an Associate Member. CSIT is an Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC) based at Queen’s University of Belfast’s, Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) in the Northern Ireland Science Park.

Firm believers in the ‘Open Innovation’ model, CSIT recognises its role in helping UK SMEs build their cyber security capabilities through knowledge transfer, research commercialisation as well as enabling them to access and compete for global opportunities in this £50 billion market.

Our Founder and CEO, John Reid said:

“RepKnight have had a strong relationship with The Centre for Secure Information Technologies since before the company was founded back in 2011 so it was a natural progression to officially become a CSIT Associate Member.”

“Over the past twelve months our company has been able to leverage the Centre’s expertise and reputation in the field of cyber security to help us win our first major high profile deal delivering open source intelligence in real time to UK Government. Winning this contract catapulted RepKnight onto the global stage, as well as highlighting the quality of UK capability and innovation to the world.”

“Becoming an Associate Member has allowed us to strengthen the engagement with CSIT, through its ‘Open Innovation’ model. This has allowed us early sight of research findings coming out of the Centre, we can engage directly with their researchers and engineers to discuss technology areas of interest and access their global network of member companies through events such as their World Cyber Security Technology Research Summit to explore opportunities and win new business.”

Stephen Wray, Commercial Director at CSIT commenting on RepKnight formally becoming Associate Members said:

“Our on-going relationship with RepKnight has proven to be a win-win for both organisations and is an example of how an innovative approach to commercialising applied research can have real economic impact for SMEs and the UK as a whole.”

The RepKnight team will be exhibiting at the Home Office Security and Policing 2013 exhibition at Farnborough on the 12-14th March.

The event is aimed at police, law enforcement and security professionals who are tasked with security, civil protection and National Resilience. Security & Policing showcases world leading products and services, taking advantage of the unique opportunity to bring together people with operational needs with companies that have the relevant solutions, all within a secure environment.

The Sales and Marketing team will be available at stand D28 throughout the exhibition to demo the product and answer questions. Our Founder and CEO, John Reid will also be delivering a workshop in the Briefing Zone at 14:30 on the 12th March.

If you would like to book a private demo session in advance please email [email protected]

Belfast-based Company Named Winner in Mobile/Social Media/Web Category 

14 March 2012, Belfast, Northern Ireland – RepKnight, developers of innovative solutions that monitor and analyse traffic on the web, has won a prestigious Irish Technology Leadership Group/Irish Times Technology Award, winning in the Mobile/Social Media/Web category. The awards recognise the most innovative technology companies on the island of Ireland, and were presented during the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) Innovation Summit, which was attended by over 800 top executives, entrepreneurs and venture capital investors operating in Silicon Valley.

Commenting on the achievement John Hartnett, President and Founder of the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG), said: “I would like to congratulate RepKnight on winning the Mobile/Social Media/Web category at the fifth annual Irish Technology Leadership Group/Irish Times Technology Awards. The standard of competition in this category was extremely high indeed, with two other Northern Ireland-based technology companies also shortlisted. The company clearly has significant potential, and an endorsement of this nature clearly enhances the company’s profile amongst possible investors.”

“We’re very pleased to have won this important award, which recognises the innovative approach that RepKnight is taking in helping companies detect, understand and take action on key trends emerging across the web,” said John Reid, Founder and CEO, RepKnight.  “While we are still in the early stages of our company’s history, we have made significant progress in the development of our product, particularly in tailoring it to meet the specific requirements of customers in the security, media and financial sectors. We’re now focused on expanding our customer base to address this significant global market opportunity.”

RepKnight offers an innovative platform for monitoring social media and providing advanced insights into trends which can be used to protect brand reputation, anticipate market trends and even detect potential security threats. Clients can customise the product to monitor not only social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr, but a number of defined web, blog and RSS feeds as required.

ITLG shortlisted 20 companies from across the island of Ireland in five technology categories following an extensive review of approximately 100 companies at a series of pitch sessions held at the University of Ulster, Belfast and Dublin City University in October and November 2011. Awards categories included Biotech/Cleantech, Entertainment and Gaming, Hardware/Semiconductor, Mobile/Social Media/Web and Software and Services/Cloud.

Delegates from Invest NI, the University of Ulster, Queen’s University, Belfast and the ITLG Silicon Valley 50, comprising the most influential Irish and Irish Americans in the worlds of technology and media, also attended the ITLG Innovation Summit. The two-day summit featured keynote presentations, panel debates and company showcases providing an inside look at cutting-edge technology, business and political trends.