QOMPLX Closes Acquisition of Leading Cybersecurity Intelligence Firm Hyperion Gray

QOMPLX Closes Acquisition of Leading Cybersecurity Intelligence Firm Hyperion Gray

Strategic acquisition strengthens QOMPLX’s risk analytics, external security posturing, and penetration testing

TYSONS, Va., March 18, 2021 -- QOMPLX™, the leader in cloud-native risk analytics, today announced the completed acquisition of Hyperion Gray, a leading information security firm. Hyperion Gray’s team of software engineers, data scientists, and offensive security experts have joined the QOMPLX team as key members of the company’s cybersecurity and analytics teams.

Hyperion Gray’s cutting-edge cybersecurity and open-source intelligence (OSINT) expertise enhances and complements QOMPLX’s risk analytics, cybersecurity, and cyber insurance offerings. Through this acquisition, QOMPLX continues to enhance its capabilities in data-driven cybersecurity external security posture, intelligence, and advanced security penetration testing and adversary emulation.

“Hyperion Gray’s unique approach to cybersecurity and intelligence furthers QOMPLX’s work for leading global organizations as a key cybersecurity and risk partner,” said Jason Crabtree, co-founder & CEO of QOMPLX. “ We’re thrilled to have Alex and team bring deep security expertise and extensive applied technology research artifacts and skills into the QOMPLX team and a suite of analytics and cybersecurity offerings.  I look forward to more exciting new features and capabilities in the Q:Cyber suite of solutions and the continued development of QOMPLX’s extensive cybersecurity and risk data sets enabled by the Hyperion Gray team joining our organization.”

QOMPLX's Q:CYBER suite is the first comprehensive solution that combines external attack surface intelligence with internal telemetry from Active Directory, log sources, and other security tool feeds into a dedicated data fusion layer with optional augmentation from expert human operators. Hyperion Gray’s powerful research including its “PunkSPIDER” web application vulnerability search engine, Omnisense internet scanners and sensors, and advanced OSINT and dark web research tools are all being integrated into Q:CYBER and QOMPLX offerings.  These new capabilities complement QOMPLX’s long differentiated work in critical analytics and security controls for enterprise authentication including Kerberos and SAML and data fusion capabilities on the QOMPLX:OS unified analytics platform.

“Hyperion Gray is at the forefront of innovation creating technologies and solutions to hard problems across a wide range of areas, from web security to global social issues, “ said Alejandro Caceres Founder and CEO, Hyperion Gray.  “QOMPLX is an ideal fit for us, and we are excited to have joined the team.  Our collective expert OSINT engineers, pen testers, and data scientists are creating and operationalizing tools that reimagine how we best protect organizations from data breaches and how to detect and respond when they occur.”

QOMPLX’s deep technology coupled with its cybersecurity and insurance domain expertise allows cybersecurity and other telematics data to be leveraged in broader insurance underwriting, exposure management, loss mitigation, and risk finance applications. The integration of HyperionGray furthers QOMPLX’s strategy of using technology to better specify risk transfer, model future possibilities, and enable data analytics across the insurance value chain, to include better real-time analysis of risk discovery, quantification and accumulation across portfolios as part of its direct and partner-led efforts to bring functional and innovative risk transfer products to market.

This news comes on the heels of QOMPLX’s proposed business combination with Tailwind Acquisition Corp., (NYSE: TWND), a special purpose acquisition company. QOMPLX’s and Tailwind Acquisition Corp.’s boards of directors have unanimously approved the proposed business combination. Completion of the proposed business combination is expected in mid-2021, subject to approval by Tailwind’s stockholders and the satisfaction or waiver of other customary closing conditions identified in the business combination agreement entered into by QOMPLX and Tailwind Acquisition Corp.

About QOMPLX

QOMPLX is the leader in cloud-native risk analytics. We help organizations make intelligent business decisions and better manage risk through our advanced, proprietary risk cloud platform. We are the leaders at rapidly ingesting, transforming, and contextualizing large, complex, and disparate data sources through our data factory in order to help organizations better quantify, model, and predict risk in areas including cybersecurity, insurance, and finance. Backed by Bill Foley's Cannae Holdings, QOMPLX is co-founded by CEO Jason Crabtree, a former Special Advisor to the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Cyber Command and the Department of Defense, West Point graduate, Rhodes Scholar, and veteran of the War in Afghanistan, and by CTO Andrew Sellers, a U.S. Air Force Academy valedictorian, Truman Scholar, and Iraq War veteran. QOMPLX has entered into a definitive business combination agreement with Tailwind Acquisition Corp. and will be traded on NYSE under the ticker QPLX upon closing of the proposed business combination. For more information, visit qomplx.com and follow us on Twitter.

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In connection with the transactions contemplated by the Business Combination Agreement, dated March 1, 2021, by and among Tailwind Acquisition Corp. (“Tailwind”), Compass Merger Sub, Inc., QOMPLX, Inc. (“QOMPLX”), and Rationem, LLC, in its capacity as the representative of the stockholders of QOMPLX (such transactions, the “Business Combination”), Tailwind intends to file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) a Registration Statement, which will include a preliminary prospectus and preliminary proxy statement. Tailwind will mail a definitive proxy statement/final prospectus and other relevant documents to its stockholders. This communication is not a substitute for the Registration Statement, the definitive proxy statement/final prospectus or any other document that Tailwind will send to its stockholders in connection with the Business Combination. Investors and security holders of Tailwind are advised to read, when available, the proxy statement/prospectus in connection with Tailwind’s solicitation of proxies for its extraordinary general meeting of stockholders to be held to approve the Business Combination (and related matters) because the proxy statement/prospectus will contain important information about the Business Combination and the parties to the Business Combination. The definitive proxy statement/final prospectus will be mailed to stockholders of Tailwind as of a record date to be established for voting on the Business Combination. Stockholders will also be able to obtain copies of the proxy statement/prospectus, without charge, once available, at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov or by directing a request to: 1545 Courtney Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90046.

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(“Sentar”) and RPC Tyche LLP (“Tyche”); the inability of the parties to consummate the Business Combination or the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the Business Combination Agreement; the inability of QOMPLX to consummate a Pipeline Acquisition or the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the transaction agreement for such Pipeline Acquisition; the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against the parties following the announcement of the Business Combination; the receipt of an unsolicited offer from another party for an alternative business transaction that could interfere with the Business Combination; the risk that the approval of the stockholders of Tailwind or QOMPLX for the potential transaction is not obtained; failure to realize the anticipated benefits of the Business Combination, including as a result of a delay in consummating the potential transaction or difficulty in integrating the businesses of Tailwind, QOMPLX, Sentar and Tyche; the risk that the Business Combination disrupts current plans and operations as a result of the announcement and consummation of the Business Combination; the ability of the combined company to grow and manage growth profitably and retain its key employees; the amount of redemption requests made by Tailwind’s stockholders; the inability to obtain or maintain the listing of the post-acquisition company’s securities on NYSE following the Business Combination; costs related to the Business Combination; inaccuracies for any reason in the estimates of expenses and profitability and the projected financial information (including on a pro forma basis giving effect to the acquisitions of Hyperion Gray, LLC, Sentar and Tyche) for QOMPLX; and other risks and uncertainties, including those to be included under the header “Risk Factors” in the registration statement on Form S-4 to be filed by Tailwind with the SEC and those included under the header “Risk Factors” in the final prospectus of Tailwind related to its initial public offering, dated September 3, 2020. 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