Strategy and KPIs
Executing our strategy
Lead the market
Deliver world-class research and thought leadership coupled with leaders who can gauge audiences and convey our message across all channels
What we said we would do • Continue high impact research What we have achieved
We are successfully executing our strategy, realising our vision to become the complete provider of cyber and software resilience solutions globally. This section demonstrates how we are making progress to becoming a one-stop shop for our customers, offering them a complete set of cyber and software resilience services, which are promoted and sold to a global market, underpinned by research, data and quantification. In securing NCC Group’s future, we build on strong foundations to create a highly engaged and diverse talent base, as we continue to: • Broaden our portfolio, adding services and solutions across the complete Assess – Develop – Manage cyber lifecycle • Improve how we go to market globally, becoming easier to engage with and buy from
• Published 71 blog posts and 37+ technical advisories on our dedicated research blog, attracting a quarter of a million visitors • Released 35 open-source tools, and contributed to security standards development for C, Kubernetes and post-quantum cryptography • Recognised as some of Microsoft Security Response Center’s (MSRC) most valuable security researchers • Led the CyberUp Campaign to improve legal protections for cyber security and threat intelligence researchers Read more on page 49 • Commercial R&D accounted for up to nearly 1.5% of total revenue, under leadership of newly appointed Head of Commercial Research Read more on our research on pages 18 and 19
KPIs 3,400+ research days (2020: 3,300) 51 conference presentations, over 20 at Tier 1 venues (2020: 76)
Read more on our business model on pages 20 and 21
Link to risks:
1 Business strategy
2 Management of strategic change
3 Global pandemic – Covid-19
4 Availability of critical information systems
5 Attracting and retaining appropriate colleague capacity and capability
6 Information security risk (including cyber risk)
7 Quality of Management Information Systems (MIS) and internal business processes
8 Quality and Security Management Systems
9 Post-Brexit
Link to risks
10 Sustainability
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Read more on our risks on pages 40 to 48
NCC Group plc — Annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 May 2021
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