Cyber Security Dudley
Local, CREST-accredited cyber security for Dudley businesses: penetration testing, Cyber Essentials and certification, and SOC consulting and support.
Local, CREST-accredited cyber security for Dudley businesses: penetration testing, Cyber Essentials and certification, and SOC consulting and support.
Dudley’s manufacturing, engineering and industrial businesses face growing cyber threats and rising demands, from clients, insurers and tenders, to prove their security. Solusec provides the full range of cyber security services, scoped to what your business actually needs.
What we do for Dudley businesses
Testing and assurance
CREST-accredited penetration testing for your networks, web apps, cloud and AI systems, plus vulnerability assessment.
Certification and compliance
As a Cyber Essentials and IASME Cyber Assurance Certification Body we handle Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essentials Plus and IASME Cyber Assurance.
Detection, response and monitoring
SOC consulting and support and incident response to spot and stop attacks.
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Local and responsive
We are based nearby in Albrighton and work remotely first, with onsite visits across the West Midlands and Shropshire 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.
Cyber security support in Dudley
Not every organisation in Dudley needs a certificate. Plenty need someone senior to look at what they actually have and say plainly which risks are real. Given metal forming, fabrication and light manufacturing, largely in family businesses that have supplied the same customers for decades, the honest answer is often that the exposure is smaller than feared in one place and larger than expected in another.
What we typically find is 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. That is not a failing, it is what happens when a business grows faster than the systems supporting it. The useful work is deciding which of those gaps actually matters given who you are and what you hold, rather than fixing everything at once.
We work as consultants, not as a platform vendor, so we are not trying to move you onto a monthly licence. Dudley is twenty-five minutes away, which matters when the answer needs someone to physically look at the kit. Where this turns into ongoing work it is usually fractional CISO support or SOC support over your existing tooling.
Talk to us
We are based in Albrighton and work across the region, remotely and on site where it helps. Tell us what you are dealing with and we will tell you honestly what you need, including if that is less than you expected.
Long-established businesses, and the IT that grew around them
A great many Dudley employers have been trading for decades, often under the same family, making physical things for customers they have known for years. The IT in those businesses almost never arrived as a plan. It accumulated: a server bought for one job, a package the previous bookkeeper preferred, a remote access arrangement set up during the pandemic and never revisited.
None of that is negligence. It is what happens when the business is the priority and the computers are a means to an end. But it produces a specific shape of risk, where a single machine nobody thinks about turns out to be load bearing, and the person who understood it left in 2021.
The first useful piece of work is usually an inventory rather than a test. Knowing what you have, what it does and who supports it answers more questions than a scan of something you have not mapped.
When the oldest machine cannot be replaced
Metalworking, foundry and press equipment outlives several generations of computer, and it is routine to find production tied to a controller running software that has not been supported for a decade. Replacing it is often genuinely impossible, because the machine works and the vendor no longer exists.
Cyber Essentials allows for this, but only where the unsupported element is properly segregated and placed out of scope, and the segregation has to be real. A VLAN that was configured once and never verified, or a machine that is theoretically isolated but has a laptop plugged into it every Thursday for data collection, will not hold up.
Getting that boundary right is normally a day of work and it converts an impossible requirement into a straightforward one.
No internal IT, and an outsourced provider seen twice a year
The common arrangement here is a small local IT company on a break-fix or light support contract. That relationship usually works well for what it is, and the difficulty appears only when somebody asks a question it was never set up to answer, such as whether backups have been tested or whether every account has multi-factor authentication.
We are not trying to displace that provider. They know the estate and we are independent of it, which is the right separation for testing and for assessment. The productive arrangement is usually the three of us on one call for twenty minutes.
Close enough to come out
Dudley is around half an hour from Albrighton. On-site attendance is practical and carries no travel charge, though most work still runs remotely because that is what suits it. Where an estate is genuinely hard to picture over a call, a first visit tends to pay for itself.
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Common questions
What cyber security services do you offer in Dudley?
The full range: penetration testing (including AI and LLM), Cyber Essentials and IASME certification, SOC consulting and support, incident response and vulnerability management.
Are you local to Dudley?
We work remotely first, with onsite visits across the West Midlands available where they help.
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.
We have machines running software nobody supports any more. Can we still certify?
Yes, provided the unsupported element is genuinely segregated and placed out of scope. The segregation has to be real rather than described, which means a boundary somebody has verified rather than a VLAN configured once years ago. Getting that right is usually about a day of work.
We do not have anyone in IT. Is that a problem?
No, and it is the normal position here. The first piece of work is usually an inventory rather than a test, because knowing what you have and who supports it answers more than scanning something nobody has mapped.
Will you try to replace our IT provider?
No. They know the estate and we are independent of it, which is exactly the separation you want for testing and for assessment. The most productive arrangement is usually a short call with all three of us on it.
How far is Dudley from you?
About half an hour. There is no travel charge anywhere in the West Midlands, so an on-site visit costs you nothing extra where it genuinely helps.
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.
Talk to an expert in Dudley
Local, CREST-accredited and straight with you. Free scoping call, fixed-price quote, no obligation.