Cyber Security Stockport

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

Stockport’s manufacturing, professional-services and retail 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 Stockport 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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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.

A town centre full of organisations that outgrew their IT

Stockport has drawn a steady stream of professional, creative and technology businesses out of central Manchester, and a particular pattern comes with them. The organisation is ten or fifteen years old, has grown comfortably, and is running on arrangements that made sense when it was a third of the size.

Typically that means a mixture of cloud services adopted by whoever needed them, a legacy server still doing one thing nobody has migrated, and administrative access held by two or three people for historical reasons. Nothing is broken. It has simply never been looked at as a whole.

The work that pays here is a review rather than a test: what holds your data, who can reach it, and what happens when somebody leaves. Most organisations at this stage find the answer to the second question uncomfortable.

The leaver problem in a subscription estate

Where software is adopted team by team, offboarding quietly stops working. Disabling the main account closes the front door and leaves a dozen side doors open, because those services were signed up for directly with a work email address and never joined to the identity provider.

Two things fix most of it. Bring every service that supports it behind single sign-on, so one action removes access everywhere. For the rest, keep a short list of what exists and who holds an account, and work through it on the day somebody leaves rather than the week after.

This is also one of the questions insurers and corporate customers now ask directly, so it is worth being able to answer it.

Manufacturing and engineering around the edges

Away from the centre, Stockport retains a solid engineering and manufacturing base, and those businesses look nothing like the town centre ones. Real premises, real equipment, often a works network, and an outsourced IT provider seen when something breaks.

For these the priorities are the familiar ones: knowing what is on the network, having a verified boundary around anything unsupported, and proving a backup restores. Where a customer has asked for certification, Cyber Essentials covers the ground and tends to force those questions into the open, which is most of its value.

Working remotely, and when we would travel

Stockport is roughly ninety minutes from us. Application testing, cloud and identity reviews and most certification work are properly remote activities, so distance rarely enters into it. Where on-site attendance is warranted we travel and quote it transparently as a separate line.

Common questions

What cyber security services do you offer in Stockport?

The full range: penetration testing (including AI and LLM), Cyber Essentials and IASME certification, SOC consulting and support, incident response and vulnerability management.

Do you work with Stockport businesses?

Yes. Work for Greater Manchester businesses is delivered primarily remotely, with onsite visits available and any travel quoted up front.

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 grown a lot and nobody has reviewed our systems. What is the first step?

A review rather than a test. What holds your data, who can reach it, and what happens when somebody leaves. Most organisations at that stage find the second answer uncomfortable, and narrowing access costs nothing.

When somebody leaves we disable their account. Is that enough?

Usually not. In a subscription estate that closes the front door and leaves a dozen side doors open, because services were signed up for directly with a work email and never joined to your identity provider. Bringing everything that supports it behind single sign-on fixes most of it.

Do you work with manufacturers as well as office businesses?

Yes, and they need quite different things. A manufacturer with a works network needs an inventory, a verified boundary around anything unsupported and a tested backup. An office business needs an identity and application review.

Is being based in Shropshire a problem for a Stockport client?

Rarely. Application testing, identity reviews and most certification are genuinely remote. Where attending matters we travel, and the cost is quoted as its own line.

Cyber security support in Stockport

Not every organisation in Stockport needs a certificate. Plenty need someone senior to look at what they actually have and say plainly which risks are real. Given engineering, professional services and a growing technology sector, with an unusually wide spread of company sizes, 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 estates that vary enormously from one business to the next, which makes honest scoping at the start worth more here than anywhere else. 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. Stockport engagements are typically remote-first with an optional site day. Where this turns into ongoing work it is usually fractional CISO support or SOC support over your existing tooling.