SECURE SECURE LTD

Their core work

Secure Secure Ltd is a UK-based cybersecurity SME that built software tools to help small businesses and developers identify and fix security vulnerabilities in their applications. Their work spans two complementary areas: a SaaS platform for automated security scanning targeted at SMEs and freelance developers, and a threat detection system for Internet of Things devices. Their technical stack — Docker containers, server hardening, application security testing — suggests a hands-on engineering firm rather than a consultancy. They also incorporated security education and standards compliance into their IoT work, indicating awareness of the training gap in SME cybersecurity.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both projects fall within a narrow two-year window (2016–2018), so there is limited long-term evolution to trace. The progression that is visible is a clear shift in target environment: the first project focused on developer-facing SaaS tools for generic application security, while the second pivoted to the emerging IoT domain with a richer technical and regulatory scope. This suggests the company was tracking market opportunity rather than deepening a single vertical — moving from broadly applicable SME security tooling toward a more specialised, device-level threat detection problem that was gaining EU policy attention at the time. There is no post-2018 H2020 activity in the data, so whether this trajectory continued is unknown.

Between 2016 and 2018 the company moved from developer tooling toward IoT security — a sector that has continued to grow — but there is no H2020 activity after 2018 to confirm whether this direction was sustained.

How they like to work

Secure Secure Ltd coordinated both of its H2020 projects and lists no consortium partners, which is consistent with SME Instrument Phase 1 grants and CSA grants that are routinely awarded to single applicants. This means they operated as independent project leaders rather than as members of multi-partner research teams. Anyone considering working with them should treat this as a company accustomed to driving their own agenda rather than fitting into a large consortium structure.

The available data shows zero recorded consortium partners and no cross-country collaboration within H2020. Both projects appear to have been single-beneficiary grants, so the firm's European research network is not visible from this dataset.

What sets them apart

Secure Secure Ltd occupies a narrow but commercially relevant niche: automated, affordable cybersecurity tooling built specifically for SMEs and IoT environments rather than enterprise clients. Their use of Docker-based deployment and focus on developer workflows suggests they understand the resource constraints of small technical teams. For a consortium needing a practitioner voice on SME-accessible security tooling or IoT vulnerability standards, they offer real product-building experience rather than academic research.

Highlights from their portfolio

• SecIoT
  The largest of the two grants (EUR 117,844) and the most technically detailed, covering IoT threat detection with explicit focus on automation, Docker-based tooling, vulnerability assessment, and security education — a broad scope for a single-beneficiary SME project.
• SCR
  An SME Instrument Phase 1 feasibility grant validating a cybersecurity SaaS concept for SMEs and freelance developers, indicating the company sought EU validation for a commercial product idea at an early stage.