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Cyber Essentials Certification UK for Startups & Scale-ups
Tailored cyber security solutions for startups & scale-ups — from compliance and security to day-to-day support, all managed by UK-based experts.
Threat Intelligence
Real-time threat feeds and dark web monitoring keep you one step ahead of cyber criminals targeting your sector.
Automated Protection
Machine-learning-driven tools detect and neutralise threats in seconds, without waiting for a human to intervene.
Compliance Ready
We help you meet GDPR, Cyber Essentials, PCI DSS and ISO 27001 requirements with documented policies and evidence packs.
Cyber essentials certification for startups, with Companies House filings accounted for.
Tech Nation alumni, Innovate UK Smart Grant recipients and British Business Bank Future Fund Breakthrough portfolio companies share an evidence problem: the grant body wants milestone reports, GANTT updates, timesheet evidence and outcome metrics. Cloudswitched joins Linear ticket histories, GitHub PR logs, Xero or FreeAgent ledger entries and Notion project pages into a grant-evidence pack so the milestone report writes itself rather than being assembled in the 48 hours before the deadline. Pleo and Spendesk UK rollout ends the personal-credit-card-and-expense-claim era. Cloudswitched supports the SSO from HiBob, Lattice or Personio, the SCIM provisioning, the spend-policy configuration, the manager-approval workflow, the Xero or FreeAgent receipt-matching, the VAT-receipt capture for HMRC compliance, the leaver-day card-deactivation and the corporate-card reconciliation that lets the bookkeeper close the month in three days.
How it works for Startups businesses
A clear, structured process from consultation to ongoing support.
1
Vendor-Neutral Advice
We recommend the best tools for your situation, not the ones that pay us the highest commission. Your security comes first.
2
Staff Awareness Focus
Technology alone is not enough. We train your people to recognise phishing, social engineering and other human-targeted attacks.
3
Full Audit Trail
Every action, alert and remediation is logged and available in your compliance dashboard, making audits and insurance renewals painless.
Cyber Essentials Certification UK for Startups
Mercury, Brex, Revolut, Tide and Starling supported
Mercury, Brex, Revolut Business, Tide and Starling Bank business account IT side with SSO where supported, MFA with hardware key for the founder, 1Password vaults for recovery codes, accountant-access permissions in Xero or FreeAgent and break-glass workflow.
Cloudflare hardening supported
Cloudflare DNS with DNSSEC, WAF rules and rate-limiting, Cloudflare Workers for edge logic, Cloudflare Access for internal-tool gating, Cloudflare Tunnel for office-to-cloud private connectivity, Cloudflare Zero Trust for the BYOD laptop fleet and Cloudflare R2 object storage.
Intercom, Zendesk and Crisp supported
Intercom, Zendesk and Crisp inbox tenancy with SSO, inbox routing, SLA tracking, Article 28 processor agreement, GDPR-redaction workflow for chat transcripts, Subject Access Request export, macro library and integration into Linear or Jira for engineering escalation.
SOC 2 Type I and Type II readiness supported
Drata, Vanta, Secureframe or Thoreum readiness with AWS, GitHub, M365 or Google Workspace, Datadog, Sentry, HiBob connection, CC1 through CC9 Trust Service Criteria evidence, auditor scoping (Schellman, Prescient Assurance, BARR, Insight Assurance) and continuous evidence collection.
HubSpot, Pipedrive and Salesforce CRM supported
HubSpot, Pipedrive and Salesforce Essentials CRM with SSO from M365 or Google Workspace, SCIM provisioning, marketing-consent capture for UK GDPR and PECR, Article 30 records of processing entry, dedupe-and-data-quality rules and LinkedIn Sales Navigator integration.
What Our Cyber Essentials Certification UK Covers
Managed firewall and intrusion prevention
Dark web credential monitoring
Incident response hotline
Phishing simulation campaigns
Monthly security posture reports
Email security and anti-phishing filters
Why Startups businesses choose us
Old Street, Shoreditch, King's Cross, Plexal, Level39, WeWork and Huckletree tenant IT supported.
Article 28 processor agreements, Article 30 ROPA, DPIA and ICO breach-notification supported.
Google Workspace Business Plus or Enterprise with Cloud Identity, 2SV and Advanced Protection supported.
SEIS, EIS, EMI options and HMRC Advance Assurance compliance supported for UK seed and Series A founders.
Mercury, Brex, Revolut Business, Tide and Starling business banking integration supported.
GitHub Enterprise with SAML SSO, SCIM, branch-protection and signed-commits supported.
Frequently Asked Questions
We configure the SSO, the inbox routing, the SLA tracking, the Article 28 processor agreement, the GDPR-redaction workflow for chat transcripts, the Subject Access Request export, the macro library, the Slack alerting on first-response breaches and the integration into Linear or Jira for engineering escalation.
We support Google Workspace Business Starter, Standard, Plus or Enterprise with Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Meet, Docs, Cloud Identity Premium, 2-Step Verification, context-aware access, Advanced Protection for founders and Google Vault retention for UK startups.
Yes. We support Slack Enterprise Grid, Notion Enterprise and Linear Plus or Enterprise with SSO from M365 or Google Workspace, SCIM provisioning, workspace structure, integration into GitHub, Sentry, PostHog and HubSpot, data-export workflow for tool migrations and leaver-day deprovisioning across all three.
Yes. We support the integration: bank-feed reconciliation, Stripe-to-Xero, GoCardless-to-Xero, Pleo-to-Xero, Spendesk-to-Xero, payroll integration with PayFit, Brightpay or Xero Payroll and role-based access for the outsourced bookkeeper from Crunch, Mazuma, FD Centre or Cornerstone.
Yes. We take the founder from zero to Cyber Essentials in around four weeks with MFA on M365 or Google Workspace, password-manager rollout, Intune or Kandji MDM with secure-configuration baseline, EDR (Defender for Business, Crowdstrike, SentinelOne), patching SLA and a documented IT policy. Cyber Essentials Plus adds the IASME assessor's hands-on test.
We support the SAR runbook with a one-month response window, three-month extension for complex requests, structured export across M365 or Google Workspace, HubSpot, Stripe, Intercom or Zendesk and the product database, plus the ICO 72-hour breach-notification workflow and the breach-log register.
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