Cyber Security West Midlands

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One region, several quite different economies

The West Midlands is treated as a single market by people writing marketing copy and as several by anybody who works here. The security conversation in a Birmingham professional practice has almost nothing in common with the one on a Black Country shop floor, and both differ again from a distribution operation off the M6.

Broadly, the region divides into a professional and public sector core in Birmingham, a manufacturing belt running through the Black Country and out towards Coventry, a logistics corridor along the motorway network, and a set of market towns around the edges where the organisations are small and the IT support is external.

What that means in practice is that regional advice is usually too general to act on. The useful conversation starts with what your organisation does and who is asking you for what.

Supply chain requirements are the common thread

If there is one thing that unites the region, it is that most security work here begins because somebody else asked for it. The region is full of organisations that supply larger ones, and the requirements have been travelling down those chains steadily for several years.

Where the pressure comes from	What it usually asks for
Local authorities and the NHS	Cyber Essentials, sometimes the audited level where systems or data are accessed
Automotive and aerospace primes	Audited certification, evidence of controls, often a test report
Defence	Defence Cyber Certification, profiled by contract risk
Insurers at renewal	Multi-factor authentication coverage, backup testing, incident arrangements
Corporate customers generally	A questionnaire, frequently written for an organisation ten times your size

Reading the actual requirement before buying anything is the cheapest step available, and it is skipped more often than any other.

Multi-site organisations and the site nobody mentions

A regional footprint usually means several addresses, and in our experience the risk concentrates in the one that does not come up in the first conversation. A depot, a satellite office, a unit retained after an acquisition. It has its own connection, its own kit and nobody local who thinks of themselves as responsible for it.

We scope multi-site organisations as one engagement rather than quoting per address. It is usually cheaper, and more importantly it produces a coherent picture rather than several partial ones that nobody reconciles.

Based in the region, not visiting it

We are at Albrighton, between Wolverhampton and Telford, which puts most of the West Midlands within an hour. No travel is added to quotes anywhere in the region. Most work runs remotely because that is appropriate to the work, and on-site attendance is reserved for audits on complicated estates, incidents, and first visits where seeing the place is worth more than describing it.

For the individual towns and cities, there are separate pages covering Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Solihull, Dudley and Walsall.

Cyber security by town and city in the West Midlands

What we see most often in the West Midlands

• Shop-floor equipment running embedded software the vendor stopped supporting years ago
• Family manufacturing businesses with one shared office computer
• Professional firms in Birmingham holding client data under sector regulation as well

None of these is unusual and none of them is a reason to put the work off. They are simply the things worth checking before you commit to a date. If you want more detail, see fractional CISO support.

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