As organisations adopt increasingly complex ecosystems of SaaS tools, cloud infrastructure, AI platforms and global suppliers, the attack surface they must defend has expanded far beyond anything traditional cybersecurity models were designed to manage. Addressing this rising vulnerability, London based cyber risk intelligence company Cyb3r Operations has raised 4 million pounds in new funding to help enterprises continuously monitor and respond to hidden risks across their third party networks. The round was led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from Pi Labs, bringing the company’s total funding to 5 million pounds.
A New Era of Distributed Cyber Risk
Modern organisations no longer operate as isolated systems. They rely on hundreds, sometimes thousands, of external vendors and cloud services. Although this enables flexibility and innovation, it also creates an environment where a single compromised supplier can expose an entire business. In fact, more than one third of major cyber incidents now originate from external partners.
Despite this reality, many companies still rely on outdated tools to evaluate supplier risk. Annual questionnaires, spreadsheets and static audits capture only a moment in time, leaving cybersecurity teams blind to emerging threats that change by the day or even the hour. Cyb3r Operations was founded to replace these fragmented processes with continuous, automated oversight that operates at the speed of modern cyber threats.
Continuous Monitoring Instead of Static Assessments
Cyb3r Operations works with large enterprises to provide real time insight into cyber risks across their third party ecosystems. Its platform constantly analyses vendors, partners, external tools and cloud services to identify vulnerabilities or suspicious changes that may impact the organisation.
Instead of generating abstract or high level risk scores, the system focuses on operational clarity. It highlights which external relationships pose the greatest threats, how risk levels shift over time and which actions should be prioritised to improve resilience. The platform also detects shadow IT, compliance weaknesses, inherited supply chain risks and gaps that traditional assessments often overlook.
Understanding Where Risk Truly Lives
Founder and CEO Vincent Cook believes that cybersecurity failures are often rooted not just in sophisticated external attacks, but in a lack of visibility within organisations themselves. Many companies simply do not know where their critical risk exposure lies or how their vendors’ security posture evolves.
Cook explains that effective cyber risk management requires continuous detection, ongoing assessment and rapid response. Static audits cannot keep pace with the dynamic nature of global supply chains, especially as AI tools, cloud services and outsourced operations become deeply embedded in enterprise workflows.
Investment Fuels Technology Expansion
The newly secured funding will be used to expand Cyb3r Operations’ platform capabilities and strengthen its threat intelligence engine. The company plans to scale its ability to analyse complex third party relationships, map extended supply chain dependencies and provide richer real time insights into risk across global vendor ecosystems.
The investment will also support onboarding of new enterprise customers, particularly those in regulated and highly interconnected industries such as financial services, real estate, property technology and cloud driven organisations. As compliance requirements increase and third party breaches become more costly, demand for continuous monitoring tools continues to grow.
Building Resilience Across the Supply Chain
Third party cyber risk is now one of the most urgent and difficult challenges facing enterprise security teams. With attacks frequently originating through external software, suppliers or shared infrastructure, organisations must rethink traditional risk assessment models.
Cyb3r Operations positions itself as the layer of intelligence needed to navigate this landscape. By providing visibility, prioritisation and continuous oversight, the company enables enterprises to take proactive steps before vulnerabilities escalate into full scale breaches.
With fresh capital and growing industry traction, Cyb3r Operations aims to become a foundational tool for organisations seeking to secure their expanding digital supply chains and build long term resilience in a world where cyber risk is increasingly interconnected.
