43% of UK businesses were breached or attacked in the last 12 months. For medium-sized businesses that figure is 70%. For large businesses it’s 74%. A single major ransomware incident can run into the hundreds of millions in disruption costs. We help you avoid being a statistic in next year’s report.
The numbers below are not hypothetical. They are the documented impact of cyber attacks on UK businesses in the last twelve months, published by the UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.
UK businesses breached in the past year. That’s 43% of all UK businesses.
Of large UK businesses experienced a breach or attack in the last 12 months.
Cost of a single major UK ransomware incident in 2025. One attack, hundreds of millions in disruption.
Ransomware attacks on UK businesses doubled year-on-year. Approximately 19,000 organisations hit.
It is not just the immediate cost. A serious breach typically means: lost customers (who never trust you the same way again), regulatory fines (the ICO can issue penalties of up to 4% of global turnover for serious GDPR breaches), contract failures (clients with security clauses will walk), insurance premium increases (or refusals to renew), and months of operational disruption while you rebuild.
Businesses that experience a successful attack go on to suffer an average of 30 cyber crime incidents in the same 12-month period. Once attackers know you’re a soft target, they come back.
And here’s the part most businesses don’t see coming: only 27% of UK businesses have a board member responsible for cybersecurity. When the breach happens, there is often no one whose job it was to prevent it, which makes the post-incident reckoning even worse.
A lot of cybersecurity is fear-mongering and box-ticking. We focus on the controls that genuinely reduce your exposure, the frameworks that genuinely satisfy your customers, and the evidence that genuinely satisfies your auditors.
CIS benchmarks, least-privilege IAM, network segmentation, secret management, encryption at rest and in transit. We harden cloud environments to remove the obvious paths in: the ones attackers actually use.
UK GDPR, Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essentials Plus, ISO 27001, SOC 2, FCA, NHS DSP. We map your environment against the standards that apply, close gaps, and produce the evidence pack auditors will actually accept.
Continuous vulnerability scanning, intrusion detection, SIEM integration, and documented incident response runbooks. Spot anomalies fast, and have a clear plan for what happens when something is found.
A complete review of your existing posture: technical configuration, access patterns, third-party exposure, compliance gaps. Followed by a prioritised remediation plan you can actually deliver against.
Cybersecurity isn’t a separate engagement most of the time. It’s how we deliver everything else. Here’s what that looks like in each pillar.
Encryption at rest and in transit, role-based access control, audit logging, data residency, masking for non-production environments, retention policies that align with UK GDPR.
See DatabaseNetwork segmentation, least-privilege IAM, security groups, WAF rules, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, CIS benchmark hardening, standard on every cloud build.
See InfrastructureModel access controls, prompt injection defences, data loss prevention, training-data lineage, output filtering, third-party AI vendor risk assessment, AI-specific compliance scaffolding.
See AIThe outcomes that matter aren’t marketing-speak. They’re the things you can demonstrate to a customer, a regulator, an underwriter, or a board on the day they ask.
When an auditor or a customer asks for proof, you have it. Documented controls, signed-off configurations, and a paper trail that stands up to scrutiny.
A hardened environment is a less attractive target. Network segmentation, least-privilege access, and continuous monitoring mean fewer ways in and faster detection if someone tries.
When something goes wrong, and one day something will, documented runbooks and a tested response plan turn a crisis into a controlled exercise.
Enterprise buyers and regulated customers will ask for ISO 27001, SOC 2, or Cyber Essentials. Having the right framework alignment opens doors that being “working on it” doesn’t.
Cyber insurance underwriters reward demonstrable controls. Cyber Essentials Plus and ISO 27001 alignment commonly translate into materially lower premiums, or simply being insurable at all.
Know what’s in your environment, who has access to it, and what would happen if any one of those things changed. Confidence comes from visibility.
A structured engagement that takes you from current-state assessment to certification or continuous compliance, with no security theatre along the way.
A complete current-state review covering technical posture, access patterns, third-party exposure and compliance gap analysis. You receive a scored report with a prioritised list of issues.
A remediation roadmap aligned to your target framework (Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001, SOC 2, NHS DSP). Quick wins first, structural improvements next, certification work staged with realistic timelines.
We deploy the controls: technical hardening, policy work, monitoring, runbooks. Where it makes sense, we automate the controls so they hold over time without manual intervention.
Compliance isn’t a one-off. Quarterly reviews, automated drift detection, and audit-window support keep you compliant year after year, not just on the day you certified.
We’ll assess your current security posture against the framework that applies to your business and deliver a scored gap analysis within 48 hours. No obligation, no jargon, just a clear picture of where you stand and what to do about it.
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