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Why Birmingham organisations end up needing this

Birmingham has more large buyers per square mile than anywhere outside London, and that is what generates most of the work here. The city council, the NHS trusts, the universities and the professional services employers in Colmore Row all purchase from hundreds of smaller organisations, and all of them have tightened what they ask of a supplier.

The sequence is almost always the same. A contract renewal arrives with a security schedule attached that was not there three years ago. Somebody forwards it to whoever looks after IT. The clause asks for a certificate, a penetration test report, or evidence of how a breach would be notified. Nobody budgeted for any of it, and the renewal date does not move.

That is a procurement problem before it is a technical one, and it is usually solved faster by reading the clause properly than by buying the first thing that matches a keyword in it.

The professional services problem: everything is in the matter file

Law, accountancy and property dominate central Birmingham, and they share a characteristic that changes the risk calculation: the sensitive material is not in a database somebody designed, it is in documents, in email and in whatever the client sent over last week.

• Email is the system of record. Years of correspondence sit in mailboxes, and a single compromised account exposes more than most file servers would.
• Client portals and document exchange are often bolted on rather than built in, and the authentication on them is frequently weaker than on the main tenancy.
• Conveyancing and payment instruction fraud remains the most expensive single failure in the sector, and it is a process problem as much as a technical one.
• Lateral hires bring data with them, which is a confidentiality question as well as a security one.

Multi-factor authentication on every mailbox, with no standing exceptions for partners who find it inconvenient, closes more of this than any product will.

Universities, teaching hospitals and the organisations that supply them

Birmingham’s universities and hospital trusts are large, federated and deliberately open, which makes them difficult environments and makes their supply chains interesting. If you sell software, services or equipment into either, you will meet assurance questionnaires that go well beyond Cyber Essentials, often drawn from NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit requirements or from a university’s own research data policy.

Research spin-outs are a particular case. An organisation three years out of a university lab typically has genuinely valuable intellectual property, a development environment inherited from academia, and no security function at all. That combination gets noticed by people who are looking for it.

Getting to Birmingham

We are based at Albrighton, which is roughly forty minutes from the city centre and closer to the northern and western edges. Most work runs remotely because it suits the work rather than because it suits us, and on-site attendance is reserved for the occasions where being in the room changes the outcome: a Cyber Essentials Plus audit on a complicated estate, an incident, or a first scoping visit to somewhere with more sites than the paperwork suggests.

Where a single organisation has offices in Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country, we scope the whole thing as one engagement rather than quoting each address separately.

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