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Cyber Security for Small Business 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.
Defence in Depth
Multiple layers of security ensure that if one control is bypassed, others are there to catch the threat.
SME-Focused Approach
Enterprise-grade security scaled and priced for small and medium businesses — no bloated enterprise packages.
Certified Expertise
Our team holds industry certifications including Cyber Essentials assessor status, CISSP and CompTIA Security+.
Cyber security for small business sized for startups, never enterprise overkill.
Cloudflare hardening for the UK SaaS startup means moving DNS to Cloudflare, enabling DNSSEC, configuring WAF rules and rate-limiting, deploying Cloudflare Workers for edge logic, layering in 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 for cheap egress-free object storage where AWS S3 costs are out of hand. 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.
How it works for Startups businesses
A clear, structured process from consultation to ongoing support.
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Business-First Thinking
We start by understanding your business risks, then design security controls around them — not the other way around.
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Ongoing, Not One-Off
Cyber threats evolve daily. Our continuous monitoring and regular assessments ensure your defences keep pace with the threat landscape.
3
Rapid Incident Response
If the worst happens, our incident response team is on call to contain, investigate and remediate — minimising downtime and data loss.
Cyber Security for Small Business UK for Startups
Deel, Remote.com and Plane supported
Deel, Remote.com and Plane EOR and contractor workflow with laptop procurement and zero-touch shipping to Lisbon, Belgrade, Berlin or Bangalore, MDM enrollment, conditional-access policies tied to country-of-work, IR35 status review for UK contractors and leaver-day workflow.
ICO Data Protection Fee supported
ICO Data Protection Fee registration, UK GDPR Article 6 lawful-basis mapping, marketing-consent capture for HubSpot, Pipedrive or Mailchimp, Article 30 records of processing register, DPIA template, Article 28 processor agreement template and ICO 72-hour breach-notification runbook.
SAR and breach-notification supported
Subject Access Request runbook with one-month response window, three-month extension for complex requests, structured export across M365 or Google Workspace, HubSpot, Stripe, Intercom and the product database, plus ICO 72-hour breach-notification workflow and breach-log register.
Google Workspace tenancy supported
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.
AWS Organizations supported
AWS Organizations with separate accounts for dev, staging, prod, audit and security, Service Control Policies, IAM Identity Center with SSO from M365 or Google Workspace, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, AWS Config, cost-allocation tags and AWS Activate credit-burn tracking.
What Our Cyber Security for Small Business UK Covers
Endpoint detection and response (EDR)
Real-time threat monitoring and alerting
Security policy development and review
Vulnerability scanning and remediation
Staff cyber awareness training
Compliance reporting and evidence packs
Why Startups businesses choose us
Subject Access Request runbook with structured export across all customer-facing tools supported.
Cloudflare DNS, WAF, Workers, Access, Tunnel, Zero Trust and R2 hardening supported.
AWS Organizations with SCPs, IAM Identity Center, CloudTrail, GuardDuty and Security Hub supported.
Tech Nation, Seedcamp, Y Combinator, Techstars, EF and Antler cohort founder IT supported.
Frequently Asked Questions
We support the IT side of multi-bank operations: SSO where the bank supports it, MFA with hardware key for the founder, 1Password vaults for recovery codes, accountant-access permissions in Xero or FreeAgent and a documented break-glass workflow if the founder's MFA device is lost on a Friday night.
Yes. We support the HMRC Advance Assurance application, SEIS / EIS share issuance, SEIS3 / EIS3 certificate generation via the HMRC ERS portal, three-year holding-period tracking and the cap-table reflection in Carta, Capdesk or Vestd workflow for UK seed and pre-seed founders. The legal documents come from your solicitor; we engineer the IT estate so the cap table, data room and Companies House stay aligned.
Yes. We support GCP folder-and-project structure with Cloud Identity SSO, Cloud Audit Logs, Security Command Center, VPC Service Controls and Google for Startups credit-burn tracking; Azure Management-Group structure with Entra ID PIM, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel and Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub credit-burn tracking.
We support readiness using Drata, Vanta, Secureframe or Thoreum — connecting AWS, GitHub, M365 or Google Workspace, Datadog, Sentry and HiBob — mapping CC1 through CC9 Trust Service Criteria evidence, agreeing the auditor scope (Schellman, Prescient Assurance, BARR, Insight Assurance), running the Type I observation window and then the six-to-twelve-month Type II window.
We support Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Premium with Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Entra ID conditional access, Intune compliance baseline, Defender for Business, Purview retention, sensitivity labels and M365 cloud backup so the unsupported Microsoft restore-after-30-days problem does not bite.
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.
Free On Boarding worth up to £2,000!
Limited time offer - valid until 31/05/2026
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