News & Announcements

CyberLab has been formally recognised as a Founding Signatory of the CREST AI Charter, joining around 60 organisations globally that signed up at launch. The Charter, developed by CREST, the international not-for-profit body that sets professional standards for the cyber security industry, establishes a shared framework for responsible AI use across cyber security services.

Being a Founding Signatory means CyberLab was part of the inaugural cohort, helping to define what that standard looks like in practice from the outset. The Charter is built around trust, transparency, and accountability: three principles that should be central to how any security partner uses AI when delivering services to customers.

CREST is the internationally recognised accreditation and certification body for the technical cyber security industry. Its standards underpin some of the most trusted security programmes in the UK and globally, including CHECK, CBEST, and TIBER-EU.

The CREST AI Charter is CREST’s framework for responsible AI use in cyber security services. It sets out a common set of principles that signatory organisations publicly commit to, giving customers an independent benchmark for how AI should be used by the security providers they work with.

As AI is adopted more widely across the security industry, in threat detection, vulnerability assessment, reporting, and beyond, the Charter provides a shared language for accountability.

AI is already embedded in the way cyber security services are delivered. The question is not whether organisations are using it, but whether they are using it responsibly.

For CyberLab, signing the CREST AI Charter at launch reflects an existing commitment rather than a new one. Our penetration testing, red teaming, and consultancy services are built on rigorous professional standards. Extending those same standards to the use of AI in our work is a natural next step.

CyberLab today announced it has been named Sophos Public Sector Partner of the Year 2026, and has achieved Titanium Partner status in the Sophos Partner Program. The two recognitions, awarded back to back, mark a significant milestone in CyberLab’s long-standing partnership with Sophos and confirm CyberLab’s position as one of the UK’s leading cyber security partners for public sector organisations.

Together, the award and the Titanium tier recognise CyberLab’s consistent performance, deep technical expertise, and proven track record of delivering measurable security outcomes for customers across the NHS, central government, local authorities, and the wider UK public sector.

The Sophos Public Sector Partner of the Year award celebrates the partner that has had the greatest impact on protecting public sector organisations over the past year. Titanium is the highest tier of the Sophos Partner Program, reserved for a select group of partners who demonstrate the deepest commitment, capability and customer outcomes across the Sophos portfolio.

CyberLab now sits in both groups: recognised for excellence in a single sector, and elevated to top-tier status across the partnership as a whole.

CyberLab supports more than 60 NHS Trusts and works alongside central government, blue light services, local authorities and the higher education sector. Sophos technology, delivered as a managed service by CyberLab’s UK consultancy team, underpins much of that work.

The Public Sector Partner of the Year award recognises the partner that has delivered the strongest outcomes for UK public sector organisations over the past twelve months. The judging criteria considered the breadth and depth of customer protection, the technical sophistication of the deployments delivered, and the partner’s ability to convert Sophos technology into measurable defensive value for the organisations they support.

Public sector cyber security is uniquely demanding. The threat landscape is unrelenting, budgets are tight, and the cost of a successful attack is borne by patients, citizens and frontline services, not just by an IT function. CyberLab’s award win recognises a year of work delivered against that backdrop, including incident response engagements, managed detection and response rollouts, penetration testing programmes and Cyber Essentials certifications across the public sector.

Alongside the award, CyberLab has been elevated to Titanium Partner status in the Sophos Partner Program. The Sophos Titanium tier is reserved for a select group of partners who demonstrate consistent performance, deep technical expertise, and a strong track record of delivering impactful security outcomes for customers.

As a Titanium Partner, CyberLab gains enhanced alignment with Sophos on strategic opportunities, access to advanced resources, and recognition as a top-performing partner within the Sophos ecosystem. For CyberLab customers, that translates into tighter engineering alignment with the Sophos product and threat-intelligence teams, prioritised access to new capabilities, and a more direct route into Sophos’s elite incident response and managed detection and response services.

The combined effect of the award and the Titanium tier is straightforward: CyberLab customers benefit from a closer, deeper and more responsive relationship with Sophos.

In practice, that means:

• Faster routes into Sophos MDR. Sophos’s Managed Detection and Response service is built on a 24/7 elite analyst team backed by Sophos’s threat-intelligence capability. CyberLab Titanium status gives customers a more direct line into that service, including expedited onboarding and tighter integration with CyberLab’s UK consultancy team.
• Deeper engineering alignment. Titanium partners work more closely with Sophos product and engineering teams on capability roadmap, threat hunting techniques, and customer-specific deployment patterns.
• Recognised public sector specialism. Public sector customers benefit from a partner that Sophos has formally recognised as the leading delivery team in that sector. This matters when the threat actor is sophisticated, the data sensitive, and the deadline tight.
• A broader Sophos portfolio, delivered as a managed service. CyberLab delivers the full Sophos portfolio, from endpoint and firewall through to email security and managed detection and response, wrapped in CyberLab’s own UK-based consultancy and 24/7 support function.

CyberLab’s relationship with Sophos goes far beyond reselling. CyberLab delivers Sophos technology as a fully managed cyber security service, supported by an in-house team of CREST-, CHECK- and NCSC-accredited consultants.

That includes:

• Sophos MDR: 24/7 managed detection and response, delivered with Sophos’s global analyst team and overlaid with CyberLab’s UK consultancy.
• Managed Security Support: ongoing health, tuning and posture management of the Sophos estate.
• Posture Assessment: independent assessment of how well a Sophos deployment is configured against current threats.
• Penetration Testing and Red Teaming: validation of how a Sophos-protected estate stands up under realistic adversarial pressure.
• Consultancy: strategic advisory on architecture, migration and ongoing operations.

This combination of accredited consultancy, managed service, and a top-tier vendor partnership is what sits behind the Public Sector Partner of the Year award and the Titanium tier.

CyberLab is one of the UK’s most experienced cyber security consultancies in the public sector.

Specifically:

• We support more than 60 NHS Trusts across the UK
• We are a CREST-, CHECK- and NCSC Cyber Advisor-accredited consultancy.
• We are an IASME-approved certification body for Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus, with more than 1,500 certificates issued to UK organisations.
• We provide managed detection and response on Sophos MDR, backed by a UK-based service team.
• We deliver hands-on penetration testing, red teaming, posture assessment and incident response.
• We work directly with public sector procurement frameworks and understand the operational realities of frontline services.

The award and the Titanium tier are independent recognitions of that work, awarded by the vendor whose technology underpins much of it.

We’re excited to share that we’ve been named a finalist for Vendor Marketing Team of the Year at this year’s Channel Champion Awards!

Backed by many of the industry’s leading voices, the Channel Champion Awards celebrate the outstanding talent and innovation driving success across the channel ecosystem and recognise achievements across all functions of channel businesses.

Recently, Sophos have announced the XG Series Hardware is going end-of-life, and this also applies to SG Series appliances running Sophos Firewall OS.

Upgrade your firewall appliance and bolster your defences against active threats. Get even more value from your investment in Sophos Firewall with a new XGS Series hardware appliance. Sophos XGS hardware offers increased performance with the dual processor architecture and dedicated hardware FastPath, plus many other technology improvements.

• No new software to learn.
• Limited downtime – restore from XG backup.
• Continually improving performance.
• More flexible connectivity options including 5G support on some Desktop models.

Take your protection to the next level with Sophos MDR. Adding MDR allows you to extend the automation and lateral movement prevention to trigger responses based upon intel from Sophos threat analysts. All without changing your firewall rules, giving you unmatched, real-time response to active threats.

• Extending your XG Series subscriptions up to the EOL date gives you the maximum use out of your XG appliance investment.
• The renewal date for one-year subscriptions was March 31, 2024, but shorter terms are still available for purchase. Please note, subscription terms can be extended beyond the EOL date.

If you currently own a subscription that extends past the EOL date, please contact CyberLab to discuss your options.