Cybersecurity, properly handled, controls you can evidence

Yes, we work with the Cyber Essentials framework day in, day out. We help you configure the controls the assessment looks for. MFA, patched devices, secure configuration, access control, malware protection, and prepare the evidence so the assessment itself is a quiet exercise. We won't claim to be the certification body; we'll be honest about which part is us and which part lives with the assessor.

We don't claim to run a 24/7 SOC, because that's a specific operational commitment and we'd rather under-promise. What we do is configure the monitoring that matters and respond to what we see, with a real engineer who knows your setup. If your business genuinely needs a true 24/7 SOC, we'll tell you so and help you scope one properly.

Practical, jargon-free, and repeated, because once-a-year training is forgotten by Tuesday. We focus on the phishing, invoice-fraud and account-takeover patterns that actually hit regulated SMEs, not generic compliance slides. The goal is that your team catches the email before your insurer catches the breach. Training cadence and depth are scoped to your business and the standards you're held to.

You reach a real person who already knows your setup, and we work the incident, contain first, recover second, learn third. Protected, tested backups mean recovery is a bad afternoon rather than an existential one. We don't publish a hard incident-response SLA on this page because honest response depends on the incident; we'd rather show you in conversation what real response looks like than dress it up in a chart.

Yes. The controls we configure are designed to evidence what CQC, IG, DSPT and GDPR actually look for, backups tested and logged, access controlled and reported, encryption in place, patching on a schedule, training records kept. When an auditor or insurer asks, the answer is already on file rather than something we have to scramble to produce.

Yes. We can take on cybersecurity as a discrete piece of work alongside your existing IT firm or in-house team, monitoring, training, audit prep, incident handling, while they continue with day-to-day support. We'll be straightforward with them and with you about who owns what, so nothing falls between the cracks.

It shouldn't. We sequence changes so they land quietly, multi-factor authentication rolled out with proper communication, conditional access tuned so legitimate work isn't blocked, training scheduled around your week rather than dumped on it. The goal is that compliance becomes a quiet by-product of doing the work properly, not a fortnight of frustration. Your team should notice the security got better, not that the IT got harder.

It depends on what's already in place and what you're held to, a small practice already on Microsoft 365 with most foundations sound is a very different scope from a multi-site business starting from scratch. We'll give you a clear, costed plan after a short conversation and an honest assessment, not a price plucked from a brochure. No surprises, no scare-quotes, no upsell pressure.