Cyber Security Telford

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

Telford’s manufacturing, engineering, logistics and tech 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 Telford businesses

Testing and assurance

CREST-accredited penetration testing for your networks, web applications, cloud and even your AI and LLM systems, plus vulnerability assessment, so you know exactly where you are exposed.

Certification and compliance

As a Certification Body we take Telford businesses through Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essentials Plus and IASME Cyber Assurance, the standards clients, insurers and tenders increasingly require.

Detection, response and monitoring

SOC consulting and support, plus incident response, to spot attacks early and get you back on your feet fast if the worst happens.

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Why Telford businesses choose Solusec

Telford’s manufacturing, engineering, logistics and tech businesses hold data and rely on systems that clients, insurers and attackers all take an interest in. Solusec gives you the testing, certification and monitoring to protect them, without the enterprise price tag or the jargon.

Local and responsive

We are based nearby in Albrighton. We work remotely first, which suits most businesses, with onsite visits across Shropshire and the West Midlands available where they genuinely help. You deal directly with an accomplished ethical hacker with 25 years across IT and cyber security, and our CREST accreditation and track record are independently verifiable. No sales team, no jargon, just honest advice about what your business actually needs.

Cyber security in Telford

Telford's industrial estates hold vehicle engineering, fabrication, electronics and distribution firms, many supplying defence directly or through primes. We are a few miles away in Albrighton.

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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.

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What Telford's economy means for its cyber risk

Telford is not a typical English town of its size, and the difference matters for security. Telford and Wrekin produces around £5.4 billion of gross value added across roughly 5,900 active enterprises, and manufacturing and engineering account for about 15.5% of local employment, more than double the national average. Invest Telford puts advanced manufacturing and engineering at 16.5% of an 85,000 strong workforce.

That concentration changes the shape of the risk. A town of accountants and agencies worries mostly about email compromise and invoice fraud. A town of manufacturers worries about those too, and then about three more things on top:

• Plant and office networks that were never really separated. Machine controllers, historians and site systems end up reachable from the same network as the laptops, often because that was the quickest way to get production data into a report.
• Customer security questionnaires arriving from primes. Supplying an automotive or defence customer now means answering for your own controls, in writing, before the contract.
• Equipment that outlives its software. A press or a test rig bought to last twenty years is frequently driven by a PC that stopped receiving updates a decade ago.

None of those is solved by buying a product. They are solved by knowing what you have, what it is exposed to, and what your customers are going to ask you about it.

Everything we do in Telford

Seven services, one local practice. Whichever one brought you here, the others are run by the same people from the same place, twenty minutes away at Albrighton.

• Cyber security in Telford you are here
• Cyber Essentials in Telford certification, assessed and issued by us
• Cyber Essentials Plus in Telford the audited step up, when a customer wants more
• IASME Cyber Assurance in Telford for when Cyber Essentials is not enough
• Penetration testing in Telford CREST-accredited testing of what you expose
• Ethical hacker in Telford the person, the credentials and the authorisation
• DCC Level 0 in Telford for suppliers into the defence chain

Common questions

Cyber security support in Telford

Not every organisation in Telford needs a certificate. Plenty need someone senior to look at what they actually have and say plainly which risks are real. Given vehicle engineering, fabrication, electronics and distribution across the industrial estates, much of it supplying defence directly or through primes, 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 warehouse and production systems tied to specific hardware, plus handheld devices with shared logins and no obvious patching route. 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. Telford is fifteen minutes from our office, so this is about as local as our work gets. Where this turns into ongoing work it is usually fractional CISO support or SOC support over your existing tooling.