Goldilock Labs

Goldilock Labs is a UK technology company specialising in hardware security and physical-layer protection technologies. It holds the global commercial licence for NCSC SilentGlass, the first hardware product to carry UK National Cyber Security Centre branding, making the NCSC commercial licence its most significant publicly disclosed business relationship. NCSC developed the underlying intellectual property; Goldilock Labs handles manufacture (in partnership with Sony UK Technology Centre in Pencoed, Wales) and global distribution. The product was publicly launched on 22 April 2026.

The NCSC licence elevates Goldilock Labs from a niche UK hardware security company to the sole global distributor of a government-endorsed device already deployed in UK national security environments. SilentGlass's target markets span CNI operators, government departments, defence contractors, financial services firms, and high-value enterprises facing physical-access or supply-chain threats to their display infrastructure.

Goldilock Labs' licensing model illustrates NCSC's approach to commercialising government IP: the agency retains ownership while a UK commercial entity handles routes to market. This differs from the Beazley and Ultra Cyber transactions in the same week, where UK capability transferred out of UK consolidated ownership. For the UK's hardware-security sector, NCSC choosing a domestic licence partner rather than a multinational distributor is a deliberate industrial-policy signal.