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The case for a trusted cyber security partner
Today's businesses are getting overwhelmed and inundated with highly disruptive cyber events, with many stories making the headlines. But what is more disturbing, there are many more that don't. Some businesses that are unable to recover their data after a cyber attack can find themselves out of business completely within weeks.
In 2024, the swift progression of AI technologies and the escalating sophistication of cyberattacks are seemingly reported everyday. This means that any businesses not prepared to handle these challenges, may be exposing themselves to unnecessary risks.
In today's digital environment, it's crucial to be equipped with the right tools, proper skills, training, and expertise.
If your organisation is collecting, analysing, or sharing personal data, you're confronted with data privacy challenges that could put it at risk.
Privacy is not just a compliance issue; it's a brand issue, and protecting your brand is essential.
In light of the increased awareness of personal data collection and usage impacts, alongside heightened regulations and emerging security threats, numerous companies are exploring various methods to effectively manage personal information throughout its lifecycle.
This entails a comprehensive understanding of the movement of data into, within, and out of a business, which has become crucial.
The perfect storm of skills shortages, difficulties in hiring suitably qualified personnel to manage cyber security projects, and the real increase in cybersecurity risks to established businesses is not forecasted to change for some time.
Established 2018, based here right in the heart of Wrexham and with 20 years prior experience in designing and delivery of Business Management IT and Security solutions, our highly experienced team have the proven track record to help you address these gaps.
Security Foundry.In a cloudy world, helping you see clearly yourcybersecurity needs.
The perfect storm of skills shortages, difficulties in hiring suitably qualified personnel to manage cyber security projects, and the real increase in cybersecurity risks to established businesses is not forecasted to change for some time.
No safety in numbers
Many organisations have now adopted home based and hybrid working as part of everyday working.
But we still find that many small businesses do not recognise the real cyber risks they face every day. And these risks are not expected to diminish anytime soon especially with the latest attack methods being powered by artificial intelligence - AI.
According to IBM, upwards of 83% of UK organisations do not have sufficient in-house skill or expertise to address their own cyber security needs.
And, according to KnowBe4, 91% of all breaches are caused by the users themselves, inadvertently clicking on links in emails that they receive everyday.
So in light of these alarming statistics, we constantly update our services to help businesses cope even better against new and evolving cyber security threats, whilst they increasingly work from home and remotely.
Now is the time
The National Cyber Security Centre
warned that a major attack on the UK is a case of when not if,
meaning that UK organisations need to heed these warnings seriously and implement appropriate action plans.
Small businesses struggling in difficult trading conditions are also at the same time unaware that they are leaving themselves wide open with cyber, IT security and ongoing data protection risks and challenges. One bad email opened could potentially bankrupt an already distressed business.
So we can help you and backfill resources shortages you might have and provide just the right level of services you need to your management team to help you.
Our team are experts in providing what we call 'assisted services'. This is where we help implement and establish services for you to then manage yourself, or we can provide you fully managed services from day one.
Most aren't ready
According to PWC less than 50% of all businesses had examined their defences and cyber security plans in detail.
This means most businesses have not fully scoped their cyber security needs with a specialist, or worse still have assumed that it is all being 'taken care of'.
As the world embraces 'new ways of working' with hybrid work environments, many have had disruptive cyber events to contend with at the same time because whilst culturally their working patterns and habits have changed forever, their underlying infrastructure has not.
We have helped many organisations plan for improvements to security with projects in an orderly manner, as well as rescued cyber attacked organisations who have had highly disruptive events taking down their systems and threatening their very operations and existence.
We are 100% focused
Most IT partners are not security focused first. Security Foundry are. It's what we do.
We work with many different types of organisations to help them to reduce and mitigate their risks.
Security Foundry are authorised IBM Partners and we focus on IBM Security and Microsoft Security solutions and other leading cyber security vendors.
We extend our reach nationally with a trusted team of cyber security consultants giving us enterprise class capabilities and skills deliverable throughout the UK. Get in touch with us via our Contact Us
page.
If you provide IT services to your internal users and customers as a Head of IT or you are an IT Services Provider looking for specialist security expertise to enhance your capabilities for your IT customers, then get in touch today.
We aim to be your 'go to' partner for cybersecurity.
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Why Choose Us?
Initial Consultation
An Initial Consultation is a face to face meeting to define your individual needs and uncover what Security Foundry might deliver for your organisation.
Our services include advising and preparing your business for Cyber Essentials, protecting your customer data better, delivering appropriate tools to mitigate risk and helping to reduce your overall IT costs.
Should you wish to appoint us to formalise a strategy for your needs, we would usually employ an on-site workshop approach. This starts with the IT security ‘posture’ of your organisation, by assessing how well aligned your IT and security strategy is to your business strategy.
Our consultancy led engagements will help you protect your greatest assets; your people, your data, your systems and therefore your ongoing business.
Data Protection, Audit & Advisory
For deeper engagements Security Foundry with its strategic partners provide a Data Security Compliance Service
which integrates with the business’ overarching cyber security strategy.
The consultancy service delivers Data Protection, ISO and financial regulatory compliance for organisations needing to achieve and maintain these standards throughout their business.
The service also includes an independent Cyber Security Governance Service
which helps companies to ensure that their policies, processes and technology deployment remains fit for purpose.
These services are delivered by suitably qualified ISO, security cleared, data and cyber certified and accredited professionals and organisations trusted by Security Foundry.
Our certified consultants are experienced in delivering security strategies and solutions against a number of industry recognised standards including ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials+, NIST and MITRE Att@ck frameworks.
Security Solutions
Security solutions can sometimes appear expensive when compared to other investments in your organisation, so we work hard to help you re-purpose budgets wherever possible and reduce your overall and total cost of ownership of your IT.
We aim to be vendor agnostic which means you can be sure whatever we recommend is what you actually need.
We only provide authorised and accredited technology solutions to help you implement mutually agreed requirements.
We are fully accountable for what we recommend and will deliver to you under certified ITIL principles supporting our approach to engagement, service design and continuing solution delivery.
If you are considering a Managed Security Services partner and are looking for local presence here in Wrexham and North Wales but with nationwide and international capabilities then choose Security Foundry.
Are we your ideal partner?
Trends and SME late adoption
The global cyber security market has now grown to be worth over £200 Billion annually worldwide according to Fortune Business Insights.
Despite huge interruptions to businesses in recent years, organisations still need to secure their systems and data like never before, especially those who have pivoted to new ways of working - securing their mobile and home based users.
Many UK Small to Medium sized Enterprises (SME's) still have not yet fully appraised their security risk, have overlooked real risks and do not realise they themselves are now being profiled and targeted by cyber criminals.
This means now is the right time to assess the real and growing risks and improve security in your business.
Crime growth fuelling demand
Cybercrime is the key reason for growth in cyber security spending in all sectors. In fact according to the Cyber Resilience Centre for Wales, nearly 50% of all
recorded crime in Wales is actually now connected to cybercrime.
With remote working become normalised, everyday use of powerful hand-held mobile technologies, public cloud platforms, social media, Internet of Things (IOT) and Open Wi-Fi networks, all these factors combine to pose new challenging risks and threats like never before.
Today’s SME’s are simply not able to focus on what these risks are, as they are primarily addressing the needs of their own customers everyday.
So why not let Security Foundry help you define and scope your security needs? We can start by baselining your current risks, and build you a cost effective strategy.
What customers do we work with?
We are based in Wrexham, North Wales and work in a trusted capacity with organisations based here locally, right across the UK, overseas in Europe and as far as both the East and West Coasts of the US.
Operating across all business sectors, our clients are mature, stable organisations that usually employ between 50 and 500 people. Please see some examples of our work here.
In our experience, 10% of IT budgets in businesses are invested in dated security products such as traditional firewall and anti-virus. Many of these technologies are simply no longer effective, and no longer being used or managed effectively.
Our objective is to always help our clients maximise their IT investments in technologies that are fit for purpose, and wherever possible repurpose those budgets for effective cyber security technology.
Role based engagements
We recommend a cross-organisational team approach with leadership from IT, Finance, Legal, Compliance and Human Resources. We work across all these roles to be of maximum effectiveness to your organisation.
Our workshop engagements are specifically designed and structured to focus in meaningful business terms, not just in IT and technical terms.
So whether we start off with helping you take your first steps into gaining Cyber Essentials certification as an authorised Cybersmart partner or whether we work on more advanced needs with a Security Architecture Review engagement, our objective is to provide you exactly whatever you need right now.
This means that whilst we may recommend cutting edge solutions, we always link these back to desired business outcomes.