Cyber Security Walsall
Local, CREST-accredited cyber security for Walsall businesses: penetration testing, Cyber Essentials and certification, and SOC consulting and support.
Local, CREST-accredited cyber security for Walsall businesses: penetration testing, Cyber Essentials and certification, and SOC consulting and support.
Walsall’s manufacturing, logistics 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 Walsall 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 Walsall
Not every organisation in Walsall needs a certificate. Plenty need someone senior to look at what they actually have and say plainly which risks are real. Given metals, leather goods and light manufacturing, with a long tail of small, long-established organisations supplying larger businesses, 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 a handful of machines, often a mix of company and personal devices, with cloud services adopted one at a time over the years and never inventoried. 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. Walsall is half an hour from us, and small estates like these are usually quick once someone has actually catalogued them. 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.
Distribution, and the systems that actually run the business
Walsall sits on the motorway network and a large part of its economy moves goods. In a distribution business the warehouse management system is not a back office application, it is the business, and an hour of downtime is measured in vehicles standing still rather than in inconvenience.
That changes how testing has to be scoped. Nobody is going to accept a test that risks the picking system during a shift, and nor should they. The work gets scheduled around operations, agreed in advance in writing, and where something genuinely cannot be touched we assess it by other means and say so plainly in the report.
It also changes what matters. For most organisations the worst case is data loss. In distribution it is frequently availability, and the useful questions are about how quickly you could run on paper, and whether anyone has tried.
Integrations with customers are the soft edge
Distribution runs on connections to other people’s systems: customer ordering portals, carrier interfaces, electronic data interchange links that have been in place for years. These are rarely inventoried, often authenticate with credentials nobody has rotated, and frequently predate whoever is now responsible for them.
- List every integration, including the ones running on a machine under somebody’s desk.
- Find out what each one authenticates with, and when that credential was last changed.
- Establish who owns each link on your side and on theirs, because the answer is often nobody.
This is unglamorous work and it consistently finds more than a scanner does.
Drivers, handhelds and the devices that never come into the office
Scanners, cab devices and driver phones are in scope for certification and they are the devices least likely to be patched, because they are never on the network at the right moment. A device that spends its life on mobile data and syncs for ten minutes a day rarely picks up updates on schedule.
Where that is the pattern, it is worth checking what the fleet is actually running rather than what the management console believes. The two differ more often than not.
Working with Walsall organisations
Walsall is a little over half an hour from Albrighton and no travel is added to a quote. Testing is scheduled around operations rather than through them, which for a distribution business usually means evenings or the quieter end of a week, agreed before anything begins.
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Common questions
What cyber security services do you offer in Walsall?
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 Walsall?
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.
Can you test without risking the warehouse system?
Yes, and it is the normal arrangement. Scope and timing are agreed in writing before anything starts, including what must not be touched. Where a system genuinely cannot be tested live, we assess it another way and say so in the report rather than leaving it quietly out of scope.
Are our handheld scanners and driver devices in scope?
If they are used for work, yes. They are also the devices most likely to be behind on updates, because they spend their lives on mobile data and sync briefly. It is worth checking what the fleet is actually running rather than what the console reports.
What about our links into customer ordering systems?
Those are usually the soft edge. List every integration, find out what each authenticates with and when that was last changed, and establish who owns it on both sides. It is dull work and it finds more than a scanner does.
Can you work outside operating hours?
Yes. For distribution that is often the only sensible arrangement, and it is agreed at scoping rather than negotiated afterwards.
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 Walsall
Local, CREST-accredited and straight with you. Free scoping call, fixed-price quote, no obligation.