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Built For Real Resilience.
We help SMEs such as accountancy practices, financial advisors and other regulated small firms get Cyber Essentials ready, understand where their security really stands, and stress-test their response — before a regulator, or a criminal, does it for them.
Book your free Cyber AssessmentCyber Essentials Readiness
Gap analysis and hands-on guidance to get your firm ready for certification.
See how it works ↓Cyber Security Maturity Assessment
An independent, evidence-based view of how well your firm is really protected.
See how it works ↓Cyber Resilience Exercise
A simulated incident that tests whether your team and your backups would really hold up.
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Cyber Essentials Readiness
Get ready for Cyber Essentials certification, without the guesswork.
Cyber Essentials is the UK Government's baseline cyber security certification, backed by the National Cyber Security Centre. It confirms that five essential protections are in place — covering firewalls, secure configuration, access control, malware protection and patch management.
It's becoming harder to do business without it. More clients, insurers and referral partners now ask for it before working with you, and it's increasingly a condition of professional indemnity and cyber insurance renewals. For a small regulated firm, it's the most straightforward way to prove you take security seriously — without hiring a security team of your own.
- We review your current setup against the five Cyber Essentials controls
- Give you a clear, prioritised list of what needs fixing before you apply
- Guide you through the self-assessment questionnaire
- Refer you to our certification body partner to sit the actual assessment
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Cyber Security Maturity Assessment
An independent, evidence-based look at how your firm is really protected.
Most small firms rely entirely on their IT provider's word that everything is secure, with no independent way to check. This assessment gives you an outside, evidence-based view of how your organisation actually prevents, detects and recovers from a security incident.
It matters because the gaps that cause real damage — a backup that doesn't actually restore, an account with more access than it needs, an unclear escalation path — rarely show themselves until an incident forces them into the open. Uncovering them now means you fix them on your own terms, not during a crisis, and gives the partners a clear, prioritised view of where to invest next to protect the business.
- We interview your IT team and review your current infrastructure
- Benchmark what we find against NIST CSF 2.0 and CIS IG1, two of the most widely recognised security frameworks
- Score how well you protect, detect and recover, in plain business terms
- Deliver a plain-English report for the partners, with short and long-term priorities
Test it
Cyber Resilience Exercise
See how your firm actually responds when something goes wrong.
A resilience exercise is a simulated incident — for example, a ransomware attack landing on a Friday afternoon — that tests two things at once: whether your technical defences actually detect and contain the attack, and whether your leadership team makes the right calls under pressure — who to notify, what to escalate, whether the backups genuinely restore, and what you're obliged to tell clients and regulators.
It matters because most firms only discover their plan doesn't work once they're living through the real thing — and by then the cost is measured in downtime, lost clients and regulatory exposure, not the price of a rehearsal. Running the exercise now surfaces those weaknesses while they're still just weaknesses, so a real incident doesn't turn into a business-stopping event.
- We run a 90-minute simulated incident in your company.
- Identify whether your existing security controls would actually detect and block the incident before it spreads
- Check who gets called, what gets escalated, and how decisions get made under pressure
- Review your backups and data recovery process — whether they actually restore, and how long it takes
- Follow up with a short action plan closing the gaps the exercise revealed
How it works
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Free Cyber Assessment call
45 minutes, no obligation. We ask the questions most firms haven't asked themselves.
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We show you what we find
Plainly, without jargon, and without assuming you already have a security team.
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You choose how far to go
Cyber Essentials, a full maturity assessment, or a resilience exercise. Or all three.
Get in touch
Start with a free Cyber Assessment call. There's no pitch, no obligation — just a straight answer on where you stand.
Book your free Cyber AssessmentPhone01344 919960
Emailcontact@datasecadvisors.com
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