Cyber & Information Security

Security that holds when it is tested

Six integrated disciplines, from board-level governance to the controls operating in your estate. Delivered by senior practitioners with a history of working with global FTSE organisations — and a transparent ethos that engages your teams rather than talking past them.

CISO-level expertise Chartered practitioners FTSE 100 delivered Assessment to implementation
Our approach

Trusted solutions, delivered transparently

Cyberbase has a history of working with global multi-national FTSE organisations on estates where downtime and data loss carry consequences well beyond the balance sheet. We provide trusted solutions and deliver our services with a transparent ethos that engages successfully with client teams and stakeholders.

That transparency is deliberate, and it is the part clients tell us they notice. Security work fails most often not because the analysis was wrong but because the organisation never took ownership of it. We work in the open, with your people, so that the capability stays behind when we leave.

How we engage

You work directly with our senior practitioners. That brings both quality and value — deep expertise without the overhead structures of larger firms, and no gap between the people who scoped the work and the people who deliver it.

Coverage

Six disciplines, mapped across the whole security lifecycle

We organise our practice against the NIST Cybersecurity Framework functions, because that is the language your regulators, insurers and auditors already use. It also makes gaps visible: most organisations are strong in two or three of these and thin in the rest.

Govern Risk appetite, accountability, policy and regulatory obligation. Governance, Risk & ComplianceCISO as a Service
Identify Assets, exposures, vulnerabilities and where risk actually sits. Security AssuranceGovernance, Risk & Compliance
Protect Identity, access, hardening and secure design by default. Identity & Access ManagementInfrastructure SecuritySecurity Architecture
Detect Monitoring, alerting and knowing when something has changed. Infrastructure SecurityManaged security services
Respond Incident response that has been exercised, not just written. Security AssuranceIncident response managed service
Recover Continuity, restoration and getting operations back. Security ArchitectureBusiness continuity & resilience

We will tell you which of these you are genuinely covered for and which you only believe you are. That distinction is normally where the material risk turns out to be.

What we do

Six integrated disciplines

Commissioned individually, or sequenced as a programme. Most engagements draw on more than one.

01

Governance, Risk & Compliance

Consulting services across GRC and data protection, including the certification and compliance work that clients and regulators increasingly ask you to evidence.

  • GRC frameworks, risk registers and board-level reporting
  • UK GDPR and data protection — controller and processor obligations, DPIAs, records of processing
  • Digital forensics and e-discovery
  • Support in achieving certification and compliance: ISO/IEC 27001, ISF, NIST
  • Gap assessment, remediation planning and audit readiness
ISO 27001ISO 27002ISO 27701ISFNIST CSF 2.0UK GDPRCyber Essentials +
02

Security Assurance

Testing services that establish what your controls actually do under pressure — and the managed capability to respond when something gets through.

  • Vulnerability testing and penetration testing
  • Business liaison, so findings land with the people who can act on them
  • Security strategy and roadmap development
  • Policies and standards, written to be followed rather than filed
  • Risk management and treatment planning
  • Incident response managed services
Penetration testingVulnerability managementIncident responsePolicy & standards
03

Identity & Access Management

IAM and PAM design and implementation. Identity is where most breaches begin and where the fastest risk reduction is usually available.

  • IAM design and implementation — joiner, mover, leaver process re-engineering, role-based access control
  • Privileged Access Management — credential-theft mitigation, session recording, non-repudiation of privileged actions
  • Requirements gathering and competitive vendor selection, run to a risk-based methodology
  • Multi-cloud and hybrid deployment, automated through infrastructure-as-code
  • Service transition into business-as-usual operation
ForgeRockSailPointBeyondTrustCyberArk
In development

We are pioneering a new Identity as a Service proposition, bringing enterprise-grade identity governance within reach of organisations that cannot justify a full in-house platform.

04

Infrastructure Security

Cloud and endpoint security managed services, and the work of producing a standardised, secure, monitored hosting environment — in cloud and in the data centre.

  • Cloud security across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform
  • Endpoint protection and device management, with the staff training that makes deployment stick
  • Standardised, monitored hosting environments and secure baseline configuration
  • Network segmentation modelling for security and business continuity
  • File integrity monitoring, SOC and web application firewall integration
  • Secure data centre exit and legacy system retirement
AWSAzureGoogle CloudMicrosoft DefenderSOC & SIEMWAF
05

Cyber Security Architecture

Full architecture and design solutions, including cloud and network risk management, with equal weight given to security, performance and reliability.

  • Target-state security architecture and design authority
  • Cloud and network risk management, and secure migration design
  • Security controls designed into transformation programmes rather than retrofitted after them
  • IT and OT convergence for operational and industrial environments
  • Secure BYOD strategy, with the supporting policies and standards
  • Security controls for automation and robotic process automation, integrated with privileged access
Secure by designZero trustIT / OTIEC 62443Cloud migration
06

CISO as a Service

For organisations that do not wish to build their own specialist cyber and information security capability in-house. Named, senior accountability, on an agreed commitment.

  • A subject matter expert who manages the function, not just advises it
  • Ownership of the policy estate, the risk register and the governance forum
  • Board and audit-committee reporting
  • Client security questionnaires, insurer requirements and supplier assurance
  • Available as a fractional Information Security Officer where the requirement is lighter
  • Monthly retainer against agreed days, with a formal review point
Fractional ISOBoard reportingSupplier assuranceAudit support
Technology

Product expertise, without product allegiance

We run competitive, risk-based selection against your requirements — including analyst-rated vendors — rather than arriving with a preferred answer. Where you have already chosen a platform, we have the depth to implement it properly.

Identity & privileged access
ForgeRockSailPointBeyondTrustCyberArkActive DirectoryEntra ID
Cloud & infrastructure
AWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle CloudMicrosoft DefenderTerraformAzure DevOps
Detection & response
SOC operationsSIEMWeb application firewallFile integrity monitoring

Selection is driven by risk analysis, rigorous due diligence and fit with your existing infrastructure — the same method we applied on a multi-cloud privileged access programme for a global aviation client, where the chosen platform had to integrate with multiple Active Directory instances across AWS, Azure and on-premise environments.

Frameworks & certification

We work to the standards your auditors already recognise

ISO/IEC 27001 & 27002
Full information security management system, from gap assessment through Stage 1 and Stage 2 audit to certification and ongoing surveillance.
ISO/IEC 27701
Privacy information management, as an extension to an existing 27001 management system.
NIST CSF 2.0
Maturity assessment, scoring and remediation planning across Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover.
NCSC CAF
Cyber Assessment Framework, for critical national infrastructure and regulated environments.
Cyber Essentials & CE Plus
The UK baseline controls floor, increasingly requested as evidence in bids and insurance renewals.
Sector & regulatory
NIS Directive and NIS2, PCI DSS, IEC 62443 for operational technology, ISO 22301 for continuity, ISF Standard of Good Practice.
100%
First-time certification success rate

Including ISO/IEC 27001 Stage 2 audits completed with zero major nonconformities. Our team includes BSI-qualified Lead Auditors and ISO 27001 Lead Auditors.

Evidence

Delivered where failure carries consequences

FTSE 100 aviation CNI

Strategic cyber transformation

Cyber risk was out of tolerance and inconsistent across group companies. We established a group cyber security capability whilst retaining federated company-level controls — clearing the critical vulnerability backlog, delivering a NIS-D corrective action plan, and standing up group IDAM with integrated MFA and a SOC.

1.5 → 3.0
NIST CSF maturity
£18.4m
Programme over four years
FTSE 100 aviation CNI

Secure architecture for critical systems

Fragmented CNI security jeopardised global operations. We designed secure architectures spanning cloud migration, BYOD, network segmentation and legacy retirement, established best-practice CNI security integrating IT and OT, and collaborated with the National Crime Agency on critical issues.

6 months
Data centre exit ahead of plan
circa £3m
Saved on legacy remediation
Critical IT, global aviation

Multi-cloud privileged access

An automated, highly available PAM solution enforcing governance across AWS, Azure and on-premise environments. Requirements mapped to NIST CSF and SP 800-53, deployment automated with Terraform and Azure DevOps, all privileged accounts onboarded with mandatory session recording.

NIST
Compliance achieved, roadmap delivered
100%
Privileged accounts onboarded
Why Cyberbase

Senior practitioners, working in the open

Our leadership holds Chartered Security Professional (CSyP) status — the highest chartered designation in the security profession, spanning cyber, physical and personnel security — alongside Chartered Cyber Security Professional, MBCS and ISO 27001 Lead Auditor credentials. We work closely with the NCSC.

What the board needs

Governance and accountability

Risk, ownership, controls and regulatory position, in language the board owns and can report against.

What the estate needs

Controls that operate

Architecture, identity, monitoring and response, configured and tested in the environment as it actually is.

We do both ends. Consultancies that only produce governance leave you with documents nobody operates. Integrators that only implement leave you with tooling nobody owns. Our national-scale public sector work — co-authoring the review that introduced ten national data security standards, and designing the compliance toolkit now mandatory across the sector — sits alongside hands-on delivery in FTSE 100 estates.

Chartered Security Professional (CSyP) Chartered Cyber Security Professional MBCS ISO 27001 Lead Auditor BSI-qualified Lead Auditors NCSC engaged
Sectors

Where a breach is more than a line in the accounts

Aviation & air transportAirlines, groups, MRO, aftermarket
Energy & CNIUtilities, national infrastructure
Logistics & supply chainAir, land and sea operations
Health & public sectorNational health data, government
Professional servicesArchitecture, engineering, advisory
Automotive & manufacturingIndustry 4.0, plant and OT
Our other services

How this practice connects to the rest

Cyber and information security is the layer everything else stands on. Most engagements draw on more than one practice.

The next step

Start with an honest read on where you stand

Tell us what you are facing — a certification deadline, a client questionnaire you cannot answer, an identity estate nobody fully understands, or a board that wants assurance you cannot yet evidence. We will tell you what it actually takes, and whether we are the right firm for it.

Arrange a conversation

References available at C-suite level on request.