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First time at International Cyber Expo
Innovation is key to the products and solutions that keep us all safe and secure, continually evolving to meet any threat. Following its success at International Security Expo, the Innovation Award & Trail is coming to International Cyber Expo.
Our judges, some of the industry high-level professionals, have selected 10 most innovative products on the market, forming the Innovation Award & Trail – a dedicated showcase of breakthrough technologies shaping the future of security.
The winner of the Innovation Award will be revealed on Day 1 (Tues 29 September) during the Networking Drinks Reception around 17:15. Join us to celebrate the outstanding finalists below and follow the Trail to see them at the event.
2026 SHORTLIST
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Audax Global Solutions
Audax and Nijta
Audax and Nijta have transformed the docking station into a privacy and compliance layer for body-worn video. Original footage is securely sealed as an evidential master, while a disclosure-ready copy is automatically created on-premises. Non-consenting voices are replaced with synthetic voices that preserve the original words, tone and timing, while removing the speakers biometric identity. The entire process takes place within the customers premises, with no footage, audio or personal data leaving the building. This delivers evidential integrity, automated privacy protection and true data sovereignty in one secure, locally deployed solution.
Meet them on stand C21 at International Security Expo
Audax and Nijta have transformed the docking station into a privacy and compliance layer for body-worn video. Original footage is securely sealed as an evidential master, while a disclosure-ready copy is automatically created on-premises. Non-consenting voices are replaced with synthetic voices that preserve the original words, tone and timing, while removing the speakers biometric identity. The entire process takes place within the customers premises, with no footage, audio or personal data leaving the building. This delivers evidential integrity, automated privacy protection and true data sovereignty in one secure, locally deployed solution.
Meet them on stand C21 at International Security Expo
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Cairnlytics
Cairn Index
Quantifying open-source software resilience through non-intrusive data-driven concentration risk analysis: Your software stack is like a cairn - a tower of stones. It looks solid from the outside, but its stability relies on dependencies you didn't create and often don't see. The Cairn Index measures the structural integrity of these hidden stones, analysing development history to pinpoint weak spots before the whole stack collapses.
Meet them at DCMS Pavilion
Quantifying open-source software resilience through non-intrusive data-driven concentration risk analysis: Your software stack is like a cairn - a tower of stones. It looks solid from the outside, but its stability relies on dependencies you didn't create and often don't see. The Cairn Index measures the structural integrity of these hidden stones, analysing development history to pinpoint weak spots before the whole stack collapses.
Meet them at DCMS Pavilion
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D-Fend Solutions
EnforceAir PLUS
D-Fend Solutions' EnforceAir PLUS is the world's first out-of-the-box, cyber-driven, multilayer counter-drone system, built for police, emergency response, and public safety teams facing rogue drone threats in complex, sensitive environments. It combines foundational RF-cyber detection and takeover technology with auto-calibrated radar detection and optional smart RF-effector jamming in a compact platform for holistic, escalating air defense. An AI-based SmartAir fusion engine unifies multi-sensor data into a single clear operational picture, enabling real-time tailored mitigation. Designed for rapid deployment and intuitive operation, EnforceAir PLUS helps frontline teams protect airspace safely and confidently, without disrupting surrounding operations or the public.
Meet them on stand B88 at International Security Expo
D-Fend Solutions' EnforceAir PLUS is the world's first out-of-the-box, cyber-driven, multilayer counter-drone system, built for police, emergency response, and public safety teams facing rogue drone threats in complex, sensitive environments. It combines foundational RF-cyber detection and takeover technology with auto-calibrated radar detection and optional smart RF-effector jamming in a compact platform for holistic, escalating air defense. An AI-based SmartAir fusion engine unifies multi-sensor data into a single clear operational picture, enabling real-time tailored mitigation. Designed for rapid deployment and intuitive operation, EnforceAir PLUS helps frontline teams protect airspace safely and confidently, without disrupting surrounding operations or the public.
Meet them on stand B88 at International Security Expo
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Fivecast
Fivecast
Fivecast delivers open-source intelligence solutions built for clarity, powered by AI, and trusted to surface what matters. Engineered to solve complex intelligence challenges, our platform cuts through digital noise across the surface, deep web, and dark web to help those protecting nations, borders, businesses, and communities uncover critical insights before risk becomes reality. Trusted by agencies and enterprises across national security, law enforcement, defense, corporate security, and financial crime, Fivecast was born from collaboration between government and research institutions. Headquartered in Australia with a global footprint, we support the world’s most critical missions. Fivecast. Engineered for Intelligence.
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Reliance Cyber
Reliance RADAR
RADAR is Reliance Cyber's agentic security operations platform, built and run from our UK SOC. It brings three things into one managed service: Detection-as-Code that builds, tests and deploys detection rules across every customer estate in minutes; a fleet of AI agents on Google Vertex AI that investigate alerts, hunt threats and draft the investigation record; and a customer portal giving real-time visibility of their own security data. The AI does the assembly. An SC-cleared human analyst keeps the judgement. Reliance Cyber is the first UK-based partner on Google Cloud's MSSP programme.
Meet them on stand K21
RADAR is Reliance Cyber's agentic security operations platform, built and run from our UK SOC. It brings three things into one managed service: Detection-as-Code that builds, tests and deploys detection rules across every customer estate in minutes; a fleet of AI agents on Google Vertex AI that investigate alerts, hunt threats and draft the investigation record; and a customer portal giving real-time visibility of their own security data. The AI does the assembly. An SC-cleared human analyst keeps the judgement. Reliance Cyber is the first UK-based partner on Google Cloud's MSSP programme.
Meet them on stand K21
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Riskaware
HAITTON
HAITTON (Human-AI Teaming for Tracking Online Narratives) is an Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) capability enabling the real-time analysis and investigation of bulk social media data. Originally developed for a Defence use case tracking state-sponsored information operations, HAITTON has since been applied to public safety and security, analysing and tracking civil unrest, protest, and threats to life and property as they evolve.
HAITTONs innovative AI-powered toolset enables “top-down†analysis of narratives across social media and other information spaces at scale. Starting with high-level topics, analysts explore their evolution, key accounts driving them, and relationships between them to deliver actionable, timely insight.
Meet them on stand A61 at International Security Expo
HAITTON (Human-AI Teaming for Tracking Online Narratives) is an Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) capability enabling the real-time analysis and investigation of bulk social media data. Originally developed for a Defence use case tracking state-sponsored information operations, HAITTON has since been applied to public safety and security, analysing and tracking civil unrest, protest, and threats to life and property as they evolve.
HAITTONs innovative AI-powered toolset enables “top-down†analysis of narratives across social media and other information spaces at scale. Starting with high-level topics, analysts explore their evolution, key accounts driving them, and relationships between them to deliver actionable, timely insight.
Meet them on stand A61 at International Security Expo
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SafePAS
Drug Hunter
Drug Hunter bridges the operational gap between qualitative field screening and delayed laboratory analysis. The portable automated platform combines capillary electrophoresis, native fluorescence and an expert system to identify and quantify individual drugs directly from oral fluid, including multidrug samples. Published product information states that a report is produced approximately 8 minutes after sample insertion. The result supports faster, evidence-led triage at roadsides, borders, prisons, workplaces and other security-sensitive settings while preserving the role of confirmatory laboratory procedures required by local law. Developed and implemented with Estonian police partners, Drug Hunter received Europols 2023 Excellence Award for Innovative Technical Solution.
Meet them on stand EZ1 at International Security Expo
Drug Hunter bridges the operational gap between qualitative field screening and delayed laboratory analysis. The portable automated platform combines capillary electrophoresis, native fluorescence and an expert system to identify and quantify individual drugs directly from oral fluid, including multidrug samples. Published product information states that a report is produced approximately 8 minutes after sample insertion. The result supports faster, evidence-led triage at roadsides, borders, prisons, workplaces and other security-sensitive settings while preserving the role of confirmatory laboratory procedures required by local law. Developed and implemented with Estonian police partners, Drug Hunter received Europols 2023 Excellence Award for Innovative Technical Solution.
Meet them on stand EZ1 at International Security Expo
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Securium
Securium's Discover
Discover is Securiums powerful, domain-independent AI-driven content-tracking platform, co-designed with law enforcement to identify dissemination of harmful content, including terrorist publications, manifestos, exploitation material and content concerning violence against women and girls. The same technology enables organisations to find copies and potential misuse of company assets and product descriptions, revealing where material appears and how it spreads. Capable of tracking content in 42 languages and analysing volumes at speed, Discover supports defence, national security, brand protection and retail, accelerating investigations and helping teams focus resources on actionable intelligence that could take weeks to assemble through manual research.
Meet them at DCMS Pavilion
Discover is Securiums powerful, domain-independent AI-driven content-tracking platform, co-designed with law enforcement to identify dissemination of harmful content, including terrorist publications, manifestos, exploitation material and content concerning violence against women and girls. The same technology enables organisations to find copies and potential misuse of company assets and product descriptions, revealing where material appears and how it spreads. Capable of tracking content in 42 languages and analysing volumes at speed, Discover supports defence, national security, brand protection and retail, accelerating investigations and helping teams focus resources on actionable intelligence that could take weeks to assemble through manual research.
Meet them at DCMS Pavilion
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Sentrycs
Sentrycs Cyber-over-RF C-UAS system
Sentrycs Cyber-over-RF C-UAS system enables passive detection, tracking, and identification of unauthorized drones, together with controlled, surgical mitigation when required.
Based on Protocol Manipulation technology, it allows authorized operators to safely take control of and land unauthorized drones without relying on jamming, spoofing, or kinetic measures. The system provides actionable intelligence, including drone serial numbers, operator locations, and flight characteristics.
Designed for crowded venues, dense urban environments, critical infrastructure, airport security, defense missions, and major events security, it can be deployed in fixed-site, mobile, vehicle-mounted, portable, and tactical configurations or integrated into broader security and command-and-control architectures.
Meet them on stand F111 at International Security Expo
Sentrycs Cyber-over-RF C-UAS system enables passive detection, tracking, and identification of unauthorized drones, together with controlled, surgical mitigation when required.
Based on Protocol Manipulation technology, it allows authorized operators to safely take control of and land unauthorized drones without relying on jamming, spoofing, or kinetic measures. The system provides actionable intelligence, including drone serial numbers, operator locations, and flight characteristics.
Designed for crowded venues, dense urban environments, critical infrastructure, airport security, defense missions, and major events security, it can be deployed in fixed-site, mobile, vehicle-mounted, portable, and tactical configurations or integrated into broader security and command-and-control architectures.
Meet them on stand F111 at International Security Expo
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Strand Intelligence
Strand Intelligence
Strand Intelligence is a Digital Forensics and Incident Response automation platform built to remove the manual bottleneck in cyber investigations. Founded in 2025 by a former ICO principal cyber investigator and a commercial technology lead, Strand automates the collection, correlation and analysis of forensic evidence across cloud environments, endpoints and networks, producing investigation-ready output in hours rather than days. The platform covers business email compromise, insider threat, network intrusion, proactive device investigation and threat intelligence. Strand is a multiplier for investigators, not a replacement for them, increasing the caseload a team can handle while preserving forensic rigour and evidential integrity.
Meet them on stand K84
Abu Ahmed
Deputy Director and Head of the Joint Security and Resilience Centre (JSaRC), UK Home Office
Alison Wakefield
Professor of Criminology and Security Studies | Chair for Security Institute, University of West London
Alistar Leuchars
Deputy Director – Cyber & Digital, ADS Group
Andy Blackwell
Director, Blackwell Security Consulting | Former Head of Security, Virgin Atlantic
Deborah Higgins
RISC Secretariat & Director Security & Resilience, ADS
Don Randall
Senior Advisor, Don Randall Associates
Figen Murray OBE
Chairwoman, International Security Expo
Patrick Goulbourne
Assistant Commissioner, Operational Resilience & NILO National Coordinator , London Fire Brigade
Satia Rai
CEO, IPSA
Rosehanna Chowdhury
Head , Cabinet Office’s UK Resilience Academy