IASME Cyber Assurance Manchester
The step up from Cyber Essentials for Manchester businesses: a practical, affordable alternative to ISO 27001.
The step up from Cyber Essentials for Manchester businesses: a practical, affordable alternative to ISO 27001.
IASME Cyber Assurance evidences real information governance without the cost and overhead of ISO 27001. For Manchester’s professional-services, digital, financial and creative businesses, it is the step up from Cyber Essentials that opens bigger contracts and reassures larger clients.
What it covers
It goes well beyond the five Cyber Essentials controls to cover risk management, data protection, business continuity, incident response and more, mapped to how your business actually runs.
Level 1 and Level 2
Level 1 is a verified self-assessment. Level 2 adds an independent audit for the highest assurance. As an IASME Cyber Assurance Certification Body we help Manchester businesses choose the right level and guide you through, in plain English.
Expert support for Manchester
Work for Greater Manchester businesses is delivered primarily remotely, with onsite visits available and any travel quoted up front. You deal directly with an accomplished ethical hacker with 25 years across IT and cyber security. Solusec is CREST-accredited, a Cyber Essentials and IASME Cyber Assurance Certification Body, and our track record is independently verifiable. No sales team, no jargon.
IASME Cyber Assurance in Manchester
Organisations in Manchester usually reach Cyber Assurance when a customer starts asking about governance rather than just technical controls: how data is handled, how suppliers are managed, what happens when something goes wrong. Given the largest digital, software and professional services concentration outside London, alongside substantial manufacturing and logistics, that question tends to come from enterprise client security questionnaires, and investor or acquirer due diligence.
Level 1 is a verified self-assessment and Level 2 is audited. When a buyer says they want more than Cyber Essentials, they almost always mean Level 2. Cyber Essentials is a prerequisite for both and is priced separately.
The practical complication we see in Manchester is cloud-first with small physical footprints, which should be fast, except that developer and designer machines are routinely excluded from the managed estate, which affects how the scope is drawn more than it affects whether you will pass. Manchester engagements usually run remotely, with an on-site day only where the estate needs it. If you are weighing this against ISO 27001, see how the two compare.
Ready to buy?
IASME Cyber Assurance pricing, in line with IASME’s fee bands. Cyber Essentials certification is a prerequisite and is priced separately. By default we give you access to the IASME portal to complete your assessment yourself. Your submission is reviewed by a qualified, certified assessor, never fed into AI. Need it faster? Add urgent turnaround below. Want us to review your setup against the controls before you apply? That is a gap analysis, quoted separately: ask for one using the contact button under the form. Buy Level 1 now, or request a quote for the audited Level 2.
An appointed IASME Certification Body: your certificate comes directly from us. Verify our credentials on the BlockMark registry, and find us listed on the IASME website.
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Common questions
Is Cyber Assurance an alternative to ISO 27001 for Manchester businesses?
Yes. It evidences comparable information governance at a fraction of the cost and effort.
Do we need Cyber Essentials first?
Cyber Essentials is included within Cyber Assurance, so it is a natural next step, and we can do both together.
How do we get started?
Book a free call. We will tell you honestly what you need and what you do not, agree a fixed price, and move fast. No obligation.
Free, no obligation
Understand your exposure
An attacker’s first move is not an attack, it is a look. So we look first, and send you what we find, worst first.
- Services and ports you did not know were open
- Security misconfigurations on anything public facing
- Known vulnerabilities already indexed by engines like Shodan
- Company credentials sitting in known breach data
The only question is: do you know where and how to look?
We reply within one business day. Prefer to talk first? 01902 288763 or info@solusec.co.uk.
Nothing is touched on your systems. It is all public and already indexed, just scattered. We pull it together, which is what an attacker does first.
Get certified in Manchester
CREST-accredited and straight with you. Free scoping call, fixed-price quote, no obligation.