CyberFish is now part of the Trust Stamp Group

Seven years ago, I founded CyberFish on a belief that felt simple but was genuinely radical in the cybersecurity world: that the most powerful asset in any crisis is a team that has practised together. Not just a team that is technically capable, but one that has felt the cognitive weight of a real incident, made high-stakes decisions while the clock is ticking, and come out the other side knowing exactly how they perform under pressure.

Everything we have built since: the Dojo portal, the scenario library, the neuroscience-backed methodology has been in service of that one idea: that teams who exercise together don't just respond faster to crises, they respond better. With sharper decisions, stronger communication, and the kind of coordinated instinct that only comes from having been there before.

Today, I am incredibly proud to share news that marks the biggest step forward in CyberFish's history.

Effective 9th March 2026, Trust Stamp, a global provider of AI-powered identity and security solutions, listed on the Nasdaq (IDAI) has subscribed for a 50% ownership interest in CyberFish. This is not an acquisition. It is a partnership built on genuine strategic alignment and, I can honestly say, a shared sense of mission.

Like CyberFish, Trust Stamp is an alumnus of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) accelerator programme, part of GCHQ's mission to make the UK the safest place to live and work online. We have travelled similar paths and arrived at a moment where our capabilities are genuinely complementary.

Trust Stamp brings AI-powered identity verification, biometric authentication, and a global footprint spanning North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. CyberFish brings the human layer: the simulation science, the compliance training, the Dojo platform, and seven years of hard-won experience working with UK government departments, critical national infrastructure operators, and global enterprises.

What this means in practice

The CyberFish team remains exactly as it is. I am still here, writing this, running the business, obsessing over scenario design. The Dojo portal continues to evolve on the same roadmap, now with the engineering resource to move faster. The methodology doesn't change: it gets sharper.

What does change is reach and depth. Trust Stamp's international presence means that clients who have been asking us about US, European, or Asia-Pacific delivery will finally get a proper answer. And the addition of Lexverify: the third company in the Trust Stamp Group, specialists in LLM training and risk modelling, opens up a genuinely exciting new frontier for scenario development. Imagine crisis simulations that are dynamically tailored to your organisation's specific regulatory environment, supply chain risk profile, and threat landscape. That is where we are heading.

Why now: and why it matters

The compliance landscape has shifted dramatically in the past two years. NIS2, DORA, the EU AI Act, and a wave of sector-specific regulatory requirements are placing exercising and crisis readiness at the centre of governance conversations in a way they never have been before. Boards are asking questions that used to live in the CISO's inbox. Regulators are expecting evidence of tested, not just documented, incident response capability.

At the same time, the threat itself has evolved. AI-driven supply chain attacks, deepfake-enabled social engineering, and globally dispersed teams facing coordinated crises: these are the scenarios that keep our clients up at night. They are also exactly the scenarios that the CyberFish and Trust Stamp Group is now best placed to simulate, train for, and ultimately prevent.

I have spent seven years believing we were building something important. Joining the Trust Stamp Group tells me the world is finally catching up.

A personal note

Building a company is not a linear journey. It is full of moments where you wonder whether the vision is shared, whether the timing is right, whether the resources will ever match the ambition. I am grateful, deeply grateful to every client, mentor, accelerator programme, and supporter who believed in what we were doing before it was obvious.

This milestone belongs to all of you as much as it does to me.

And to our new colleagues at Trust Stamp and Lexverify: I could not be more excited for what we build together. Let's get to work.