Hardware, research, and assurance.

A British R&D, product, and assurance business. We build hardware that enforces behaviour at the interface, run threat research at scale, and carry out hardware assurance inside the environments we are trying to protect.

The three arms

What Labs does.

Advisory work puts our engineers inside real operating environments. Threat research tells us what is noise and what matters. What we learn from both feeds the product pipeline. Every product on our roadmap came from a real engagement, not a market-research exercise.

01

Hardware.

Hardware that enforces specified behaviour at the boundary between systems. No firmware to patch, no software to compromise. The security property is a property of the topology. SilentGlass™ is the current shipping product; others are in development.

02

Research.

Deep research into software supply chains and firmware threats. Browser extensions, package registries, OT equipment. Findings published under our own name; briefings distributed to accredited programmes.

03

Assurance.

Hands-on security assessment of hardware that government and CNI operators actually deploy. Risk analysis, penetration testing, reverse engineering, carried out inside the environments we are trying to protect.

Team

Who runs Labs.

  1. Stephen Kines

    Chief Executive Officer

    An international corporate lawyer ranked among Europe's top 10 TMT practitioners by Euromoney, Stephen brings deep expertise in complex technology transactions, cybersecurity, and emerging markets, alongside the hands-on drive of a bootstrapped founder.

  2. Richard Bate

    Chief Technology Officer

    A seasoned technical lead across the UK deep tech sector, Richard has spent over a decade turning complex hardware and software challenges into elegant, deployable solutions.

  3. Jon Bould

    Head of Operations

    An experienced programme and operations manager with a background spanning multinational R&D and large-scale technical delivery. Jon ensures that what we build gets to the people who need it.

  4. Anne-Marie Trevelyan

    Chair, Non-Executive Director

    Former Secretary of State for International Trade and Minister for the Armed Forces, Anne-Marie brings decades of experience at the intersection of government, defence, and international policy.