Thanks to our finalist spot at the ECSO STARtup awards last week in The Hague, Attic Security now carries the Cybersecurity Made In Europe label. It doesn't change anything about our organization, but it does put us on the radar of parties that, in the current geopolitical climate, want to choose European providers.
The label was developed by ECSO and on CyberHive you can see that Attic now holds it: https://www.thecyberhive.eu/vendors/attic-security
What makes Attic Cybersecurity Made In Europe?
First of all, as a company incorporated in the Netherlands, we are European to the bone. But that's not the whole story. When building our platform, we deliberately chose to develop everything in-house. On top of that, we host our servers with European hosting providers in European data centers.
We want to be able to make an unbiased assessment of how cloud services can be abused — and that picture gets muddied when you're running inside the same infrastructure as those cloud services.
A solution for a European problem
Perhaps more importantly, Attic is on a mission to solve a European problem: smaller organizations simply cannot get the capabilities they need to keep cybersecurity under control. There is no shortage of software and hardware — they stack alarm upon alarm — but who is actually looking at them?
Attic was built to automate the role of operational security management. And we do that from an engineering mindset. Engineers like to work with what they have. In cloud services, all kinds of security features are often available but not properly enabled. On top of that, the ability to act as a sort of Cyber MacGyver — quickly building new tools and scripts to fend off the latest threats — is a critical factor.
Microsoft and then what?
So the question: are you really European enough if you tie your service so explicitly to Microsoft 365? Yes, we think so. We are not dependent on Microsoft, but since it is the most widely used IT system that Dutch organizations run on, that is where we need to help them first. Cybercriminals certainly know where to aim their arrows.
The current interest from public-sector organizations in particular in European alternatives like Nextcloud is something we are certainly following. Attic's platform is built in a way that it can seamlessly support those environments too. But until organizations actually migrate, we are keeping our focus on Microsoft 365 — because that is where European SMBs are getting hacked right now, and where our help is needed.
