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Penetration Testing UK Small Business 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+.
Dependable penetration testing UK small business for startups, done properly.
Microsoft 365 versus Google Workspace is the decision every UK startup founder makes — and frequently re-litigates around employee twenty when the new head of engineering wants Google and the head of people wants Microsoft. Cloudswitched supports the migration either way: tenant build, identity federation, conditional access, MDM, mailflow, calendar interop, shared drive migration, Slack and Notion integration, and the cost-comparison the CFO needs for the board pack. BYOD reality for cash-poor UK seed startups means the first ten hires bring their own MacBook Air, Lenovo or Dell XPS. Cloudswitched supports the BYOD policy: separate work profile via Intune App Protection or Jamf Self Service, conditional access requiring compliant browsers, 1Password vault separation, Cloudflare Zero Trust gating sensitive apps and a documented employment-law-aware BYOD policy so the head of people doesn't inherit a tribunal in eighteen months.
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.
2
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.
Penetration Testing UK Small Business for Startups
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.
Companies House filings supported
Confirmation Statement, SH01 share allotment, AP01 director appointment, TM01 director termination, AA01 accounting-reference-date change, PSC register updates, Statement of Capital, Articles of Association amendments and IN01 incorporation evidence pack.
GCP and Azure tenancy supported
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.
What Our Penetration Testing UK Small Business 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
Stripe, GoCardless and Wise integration with role-based permissions and Radar fraud rules supported.
Datadog, Sentry, PostHog, Mixpanel, Amplitude, Segment and Rudderstack rollout supported.
Microsoft 365 Business Premium with Entra ID conditional access and Defender for Business supported.
ICO Data Protection Fee registration and UK GDPR Article 6 lawful-basis mapping supported.
Cloudflare DNS, WAF, Workers, Access, Tunnel, Zero Trust and R2 hardening supported.
Intune, Jamf and Kandji MDM with Apple Business Manager and Microsoft AutoPilot zero-touch supported.
Old Street, Shoreditch, King's Cross, Plexal, Level39, WeWork and Huckletree tenant IT supported.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. We support GitHub Enterprise or GitHub Teams with SAML SSO via Entra ID or Okta, SCIM provisioning, branch-protection on main, required PR review, signed-commits enforcement, secret-scanning, Dependabot security updates and GitHub Advanced Security where the budget allows.
Yes. We support the SSO from M365 or Google Workspace, the SCIM provisioning, the marketing-consent capture for UK GDPR and PECR, the Article 30 records of processing entry for sales data, the dedupe-and-data-quality rules, the LinkedIn Sales Navigator integration and the Calendly or Chili Piper handover.
We support the 1Password Teams or Business or Bitwarden Enterprise vault structure (engineering, growth, finance, people, executive), SCIM provisioning from HiBob or Lattice, recovery-code custody, leaver-day vault revocation, secret-rotation runbook and Slack-bot integration so the vault actually gets used.
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.
Free On Boarding worth up to £2,000!
Limited time offer - valid until 31/05/2026
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