IASME Cyber Assurance Telford
The step up from Cyber Essentials for Telford businesses: a practical, affordable alternative to ISO 27001.
The step up from Cyber Essentials for Telford businesses: a practical, affordable alternative to ISO 27001.
IASME Cyber Assurance evidences real information governance without the cost and overhead of ISO 27001. For Telford’s manufacturing, engineering, logistics and tech 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 Telford businesses choose the right level and guide you through, in plain English.
Expert support for Telford
We are based in Albrighton, Shropshire, and we work remotely first, with onsite visits across Shropshire and the West Midlands available where they genuinely help. 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 Telford
Organisations in Telford 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 vehicle engineering, fabrication, electronics and distribution across the industrial estates, much of it supplying defence directly or through primes, that question tends to come from Defence Cyber Certification flow-down, and MoD-adjacent supply chain requirements.
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 Telford is warehouse and production systems tied to specific hardware, plus handheld devices with shared logins and no obvious patching route, which affects how the scope is drawn more than it affects whether you will pass. Telford is fifteen minutes from our office, so this is about as local as our work gets. 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.
When a Telford supplier outgrows Cyber Essentials
There is a point, familiar to a lot of Telford manufacturers, where Cyber Essentials stops being enough. A customer asks for ISO 27001, or sends a questionnaire covering risk management, business continuity and how you handle their data, and the five controls do not answer it.
This happens here earlier than it does elsewhere, because of who Telford sells to. With manufacturing and engineering at about 15.5% of local employment and a defence and automotive chain on the doorstep, a twenty person engineering firm in Telford can find itself answering the same assurance questions as a company ten times its size, simply because of the customer it supplies.
IASME Cyber Assurance is built for exactly that gap. It is independently assessed, it covers governance, risk, data protection, continuity and incident response rather than just technical controls, and it is proportionate to the size of business actually doing the work. For tenders that ask for ISO 27001, it is the standard we put forward as a credible equivalent, and we say plainly in writing why it is appropriate.
Everything we do in Telford
Seven services, one local practice. Whichever one brought you here, the others are run by the same people from the same place, twenty minutes away at Albrighton.
- Cyber security in Telford the overview of everything we do locally
- Cyber Essentials in Telford certification, assessed and issued by us
- Cyber Essentials Plus in Telford the audited step up, when a customer wants more
- IASME Cyber Assurance in Telford you are here
- Penetration testing in Telford CREST-accredited testing of what you expose
- Ethical hacker in Telford the person, the credentials and the authorisation
- DCC Level 0 in Telford for suppliers into the defence chain
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Common questions
Is Cyber Assurance an alternative to ISO 27001 for Telford 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.
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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 Telford
CREST-accredited and straight with you. Free scoping call, fixed-price quote, no obligation.