Cyber Essentials Dudley
Cyber Essentials certification support for Dudley businesses. Dudley’s Black Country manufacturers and SMEs supply primes and distributors who now flow cyber requirements down to the businesses they buy from. We get your controls in shape and your assessment passed — often in days, not weeks.
What certification involves
The five controls are firewalls, secure configuration, security update management, user access control and malware protection. The 2026 rules are stricter — multi-factor authentication is mandatory on cloud services, and critical patches must be applied within 14 days — so the work is usually getting those in order before you submit. You’re guided by a Certification Body that tells you plainly what to change, then certifies you. Most Dudley organisations with reasonable controls certify in days rather than weeks. When you’re ready for the audited level, we support Cyber Essentials Plus too.
Local, and fast
We’re based nearby in Albrighton, so Dudley businesses get a local team. We work remotely first, which suits most businesses, with onsite visits across the West Midlands and Shropshire available where they genuinely help. You deal directly with the assessor, not a call centre. If you’re against a client or tender deadline, tell us and we’ll be straight about what’s achievable.
Ready to buy?
Transparent, fixed pricing based on your organisation size. By default we give you access to the IASME portal to complete your Cyber Essentials assessment yourself, and once you submit it we aim to assess within one business day. You can preview the Cyber Essentials self-assessment questions to see where you stand first. There is no call or consultation as standard; we simply send you the questionnaire to complete. 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.
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.
Common questions
Do Dudley businesses really need Cyber Essentials?
If a client, insurer or tender has asked for it, effectively yes — not holding it usually means losing the work. Even where it’s optional, it blocks the most common attacks and reassures the people you do business with.
How quickly can we get certified?
Often within days if your controls are already in reasonable shape; if not, we tell you exactly what to fix first. For a hard deadline, see our urgent certification support.
Do you come to us in Dudley?
We work remotely first, which suits most of this work, and can arrange onsite visits where they genuinely help. Much of the work is done remotely with no loss of quality, so certification is quick either way.
Cyber Essentials for Dudley organisations
Dudley is metal forming, fabrication and light manufacturing, largely in family businesses that have supplied the same customers for decades. In practice we mostly meet small offices where IT is one person's part-time responsibility on top of their actual job, and where nobody has ever been asked for an asset list. The requirement usually arrives via a larger customer's supplier assurance programme, arriving without warning or explanation.
That shapes how a Dudley certification should be sequenced. Where the estate is unmanaged or mixed, the gap analysis is worth more than the urgent turnaround, because the delay will come from remediation rather than from assessment. Where it is already managed and documented, go straight to the questionnaire. Dudley is twenty-five minutes away, which matters when the answer needs someone to physically look at the kit.
We are an appointed IASME Certification Body, so the assessment and the certificate both come from us. Assessment is within one business day of submission as standard, or the same day with the urgent option where you submit before midday. See how fast Cyber Essentials really is if you are working to a date.
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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 Cyber Essentials in Dudley
Tell us the client or tender asking for it and your deadline. Scoping is free, and we’ll get your Dudley business certified — often in days.