Cyber Security Wrexham

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

Wrexham’s manufacturing, industrial and university-linked 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 Wrexham 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.

Contact a cyber security expert →

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.

An industrial estate economy

Wrexham’s industrial base is unusually concentrated, and the organisations on it are mostly suppliers to somebody larger: manufacturing, food production, automotive and aerospace components, plastics and packaging. That supplier position is what generates the security requirements, and it generates them through contracts rather than regulators.

The pattern is consistent. A customer that previously accepted a long relationship as sufficient now has a supplier assurance process, and it arrives as a questionnaire or a schedule attached to a renewal. For a business with no IT department, the first difficulty is simply working out what is being asked.

Reading the clause before buying anything is the single cheapest step available. A good proportion of these requirements are satisfied by Cyber Essentials, and a proportion of the rest need only a clear written answer rather than a project.

Food production and the audit culture

Food manufacturing brings an advantage that other sectors lack. These organisations already live with external audit, documented process and traceability, so the discipline certification requires is familiar. What is usually missing is not the habit but the coverage, because the quality system was never extended to the computers.

In practice that means the production environment is well documented and the office estate is not, and the gap between them is where the work sits. It tends to close faster here than in sectors that have never been audited at all.

Cross-border trading and two sets of paperwork

A good deal of Wrexham business trades across the border in both directions, which occasionally complicates whose requirements apply. For cyber certification it rarely matters, because Cyber Essentials and IASME Cyber Assurance are UK-wide schemes recognised either side. Where it does matter is in public sector procurement, because Welsh and English bodies purchase through different frameworks and portals, and a supplier working both sides needs registrations in both.

Close to the border

Wrexham is around an hour from Albrighton, which makes on-site attendance straightforward when it is warranted. Most testing and certification work runs remotely because that suits it. Where a visit helps, it usually does so most at the first scoping conversation, where seeing a site answers questions a call would leave open.

Common questions

What cyber security services do you offer in Wrexham?

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 Wrexham businesses?

Yes. Work for North Wales 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.

A customer has sent us a supplier security questionnaire. What do we do?

Send it over before filling anything in. A good proportion of these are satisfied by Cyber Essentials, and much of the remainder needs a clear written answer rather than a project. Leaving boxes blank is what generates the follow-up call.

We already pass food safety audits. Does that help?

More than you would expect. The discipline certification needs is one you already have, and what is usually missing is coverage rather than habit, because the quality system was never extended to the computers. That gap tends to close faster here than in sectors with no audit culture.

We trade both sides of the border. Does that affect certification?

Not for the certificates themselves, as Cyber Essentials and IASME Cyber Assurance are UK-wide and recognised either side. It matters for public sector work, because Welsh and English bodies buy through different frameworks and a supplier working both needs to be registered on both.

How far away are you?

About an hour, so an on-site visit is straightforward where it is warranted. Most work runs remotely, and a visit usually earns its place at the first scoping conversation rather than later.

Cyber security support in Wrexham

Not every organisation in Wrexham needs a certificate. Plenty need someone senior to look at what they actually have and say plainly which risks are real. Given advanced manufacturing along the Deeside corridor, feeding aerospace and automotive supply chains, with food production and logistics alongside, 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 production environments with vendor-supplied equipment running software the vendor no longer supports, and site networks that grew without a plan. 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. Wrexham is an hour and a bit from us and we cover the Deeside corridor regularly. Where this turns into ongoing work it is usually fractional CISO support or SOC support over your existing tooling.