About SE Labs
Building Cyber Security Confidence
Learn about SE Labs: What we do, our latest events and where we come from.
About SE Labs
Advancing cyber security products through rigorous assessment
SE Labs is dedicated to improving cyber security produces and services through thorough, advanced and honest assessments.
Our testing encompasses a diverse array of solutions, spanning endpoint software, network appliances, and cloud services. Renowned for our technically precise and relevant evaluations, we conduct tests with unwavering integrity.
We offer both private testing services and publish public reports, continuously pioneering innovative approaches.
SE Labs leads the industry with next-generation testing methodologies, utilising a comprehensive, full-stack approach bolstered by meticulous threat intelligence. Our world-class testing capabilities enable us to assess endpoint, appliance, and cloud-based products and services for targeted attack detection, protection, and response.
SE Labs is ISO/IEC 27001 : 2022 certified and BS EN ISO 9001 : 2015 certified for The Provision of IT Security Product Testing.
Meet the team
Simon Edwards
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Marc Briggs
Chief Operating Officer
Stefan Dumitrascu
Chief Technology Officer
Magdalena Jurenko
Chief Human Resources Officer
Janice Sheridan
Marketing Manager
Thomas Bean
Enterprise Advanced Security Project Lead
Joseph Pike
Email Security Services Test Lead
Nikki Albesa
Endpoint Security Test Lead
Our events
What we’ve got planned
26 March 2025 –
The-C2
The-C2 is an exclusive, invite-only threat intelligence event that connects multinational business executives with the cutting edge of the cyber security industry.
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2 july 2025 –
SE Labs Workshop 2025
The SE Labs Workshop is an exclusive one-day event, available both in-person and online, designed to foster rich discussions on the latest advancements in security testing. It culminates in SE Labs’ Annual Awards ceremony.
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Our history
Where did SE Labs come from?
SE Labs launched its cyber security testing services in 2015.
Prior to that, the company’s founder Simon Edwards started and ran Dennis Technology Labs (DTL), a security testing organisation within Dennis Publishing, the UK’s largest independent magazine publishing company at the time.
DTL operated between 2007 and 2015, mainly testing anti-virus (anti-malware) products for businesses and consumers. In that time Simon was also a founder member and Chairman of the Board of the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO).
Testing anti-malware and other security products as a technical journalist since 1995, Simon published results for the first ‘real-world’ anti-malware test, which involved full end-to-end threat testing using internet-connected endpoints, inclusion of web-based exploits and full execution of malware.
Noting that the future of cyber security testing would involve advanced targeted attacks, rather than relatively simple computer viruses, Simon started the specialist independent security testing business SE Labs Ltd in 2015.
There is much debate over what the ‘SE’ in SE Labs stands for. Simon has yet to hear a correct guess.
