Security
Security
- FOUNDED 1995
- COLCHESTER
- UK-WIDE
- UK-HOSTED
The problem this solves
Somebody has asked you for a security posture you don’t currently have.
It’s usually one of four people: an insurer at renewal, a procurement team running a framework, a client’s supplier assurance questionnaire, or a board member who has read something worrying. The request is reasonable. The work involved is not obvious, and it lands on someone who already has a full job.
We can’t shortcut a certification for you. What we can do is make sure you know what’s actually on your estate, and that the evidence is there when somebody asks for it.
How we build securely
Most of what we build holds something that matters: personal data, financial records, or evidence that may be examined months after the fact by someone who wasn’t there.
That shapes the way we build rather than being added at the end.
- Audit trails as standard. Every consequential action records who did it, when, and what changed. Not an optional module.
- UK hosting by default. [PROVIDER AND REGION — TO SUPPLY]. Client data stays in the UK.
- Least privilege by default. People see what their role requires and no more, and access is reviewed rather than accumulated.
- Production data stays in production. Test and development environments don’t run on copies of your live records.
- Documented and handed over. You hold the source code. Nothing about the way we build makes you dependent on us for access to your own system.
If your buyers, insurers or regulators are asking harder questions than they used to, this is the part of the conversation we’d start with.
Monthly security assurance
Any assessment of your security is true on the day it’s made. Your estate changes every week.
In between, someone stands up a server, a laptop falls off the patch schedule, or a supplier changes something. Nobody is watching, because watching isn’t anybody’s job.
What you get
- Regular scanning across your external estate
- A monthly report written for a director, not a security engineer — what changed, what it means, what needs doing
- A running evidence trail, so when a client or an insurer asks, the answer is a document you already have rather than a fortnight of archaeology
- Someone to call when a client sends you a security questionnaire
Why we can do this efficiently
We built our own scanning tooling rather than reselling somebody else’s platform. The reporting is shaped around what a small organisation actually needs to decide, and we’re not passing on enterprise licensing costs for features you’d never use.
Where this fits with AI
The two are more connected than they look.
Almost every organisation we speak to wants to use AI somewhere. The blocker is rarely capability and almost always confidence: nobody wants to be the person who put client data somewhere it shouldn’t have gone.
A documented security baseline is what turns that from a worry into a decision. You know what you hold, where it goes, and what your obligations are — so you can say yes to the useful things and no to the risky ones, with reasons.
That’s the sequence we recommend: get the baseline right, then adopt deliberately.
Start with a conversation
Tell us who’s asking and what they’ve asked for. We’ll tell you what’s actually required, roughly what it costs, and how long it takes.