Cybersift

Cybersift is a Malta-based managed security service provider founded in 2017, offering SOC monitoring, penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, and security awareness training primarily to small and mid-sized businesses across Southern Europe and the Mediterranean. The company was founded by Brian Zarb Adami and David Vassallo, who funded the venture partly with proceeds from selling their earlier company (6pm) and building on prior SOC development experience.

Cybersift’s growth strategy leans on channel partnerships with regional telecoms rather than direct enterprise sales — most notably a 2026 partnership with Cablenet, one of Cyprus’s leading telecom providers under the GO Group umbrella, embedding Cybersift’s SOC and threat-detection stack into Cablenet’s B2B offering. The company describes itself as operating across eight countries (Malta, Estonia, the UK, Bulgaria, Poland, Italy, Lebanon, and Brazil), with planned expansion into Cyprus and Greece.

As a roughly 20-person MSSP, Cybersift is a regional player rather than a global one, and its differentiation is largely go-to-market (telecom-embedded distribution to reach SMEs that would never buy security services directly) rather than a distinct core detection technology. CISOs and channel partners evaluating Cybersift should weigh its telecom-partnership distribution model and Mediterranean/Southern European regional focus against larger, more broadly-proven MSSPs, since independent efficacy validation (named incident response outcomes, third-party detection benchmarks) was not found in available public reporting.