Cyber Security Solihull

Local, CREST-accredited cyber security for Solihull businesses: penetration testing, Cyber Essentials and certification, and SOC consulting and support.

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Local, CREST-accredited cyber security for Solihull businesses: penetration testing, Cyber Essentials and certification, and SOC consulting and support.

Solihull’s professional-services, technology and corporate 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 Solihull 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 Solihull

Not every organisation in Solihull needs a certificate. Plenty need someone senior to look at what they actually have and say plainly which risks are real. Given automotive engineering alongside a substantial corporate headquarters and professional services presence, 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 organisations that are part of a larger group, where the scope boundary between the local entity and the parent is the first thing that has to be settled. 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. Solihull sits between us and Birmingham, so combining sites in one visit is straightforward. Where this turns into ongoing work it is usually fractional CISO support or SOC support over your existing tooling.

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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.

Business park tenancies and the network you did not choose

A large share of Solihull’s employers sit in managed business parks rather than in buildings they control, and that changes a specific thing: the connectivity, and sometimes the firewall, belongs to the landlord. It is a perfectly workable arrangement until somebody asks you to evidence your boundary controls and you discover you cannot see them.

Three questions settle it. Who administers the device at the edge of your floor, what is actually configured on it, and will the managing agent put that in writing. The answers matter for Cyber Essentials, where the boundary firewall is one of the five controls, and leaving it undefined is a common reason a submission comes back with questions.

Where a landlord will not provide detail, the usual remedy is to put your own device inside your own demise and treat everything beyond it as untrusted. That is neither expensive nor unusual.

Automotive manufacturing and its suppliers

Vehicle manufacturing at scale sits on Solihull’s doorstep, and the supplier base around it reaches well beyond the borough. The security requirements arriving through that chain have become specific rather than general: named controls, evidence rather than assertion, and in several cases an audited certificate rather than a self-assessment.

For a supplier, the practical difficulty is that the requirement often lands on an organisation whose production systems were specified for reliability over a twenty year life and whose office IT grew organically alongside. Those two estates need different answers, and treating them as one is how a scope becomes unmanageable.

Events, hospitality and seasonal headcount

The exhibition and conference economy around the NEC and the airport brings a distinct pattern: organisations that triple in headcount for a fortnight and then shrink again, with card payment environments, guest wireless and temporary staff accounts in the mix.

Accounts created for an event are rarely closed after it. A quarterly leavers sweep catches more than most tooling will.
Guest wireless frequently reaches further into the network than intended, particularly where it was configured quickly to solve a problem on the day.
Card payment environments brought in for an event sit under their own obligations, and the provider’s responsibilities are not automatically yours.

What a Solihull engagement usually looks like

Solihull is about forty minutes from Albrighton, and nothing is added to a quote for travel within the West Midlands. Most testing and the majority of certification work is remote, which keeps the cost down without weakening the result. On-site attendance is for audits across a complicated estate, for incidents, and for a first visit where seeing the place answers questions a call would not.

Common questions

What cyber security services do you offer in Solihull?

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 Solihull?

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.

Our office is in a business park and the landlord runs the firewall. Does that matter?

It matters for Cyber Essentials, where the boundary firewall is one of the five controls and has to be accounted for. Ask the managing agent who administers the device and what is configured on it, in writing. Where they will not say, the usual answer is to put your own device inside your own space and treat everything beyond it as untrusted.

We supply a vehicle manufacturer. Will Cyber Essentials be enough?

Sometimes, but requirements in that chain have moved towards the audited level and towards evidence rather than assertion. Send us the actual wording. The difference between Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus is significant in both cost and timeline, and it is not worth guessing.

We take on temporary staff for events. What should we watch?

Account closure, more than anything else. Accounts created for a busy fortnight tend to outlive it by years. A quarterly sweep of leavers and dormant accounts finds more exposure in most organisations than a scanner would.

Do you charge travel to Solihull?

No. Nothing is added for travel anywhere in the West Midlands, and most work runs remotely in any case.

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