Enabling cyber security

Don’t let cyber risks restrict you. Effective cyber security means you can say yes to growth, to innovation, efficiency and new technologies while keeping your data, business and customers protected.

Take your cyber strategy beyond risk mitigation to turn it into a competitive edge:

To enable efficient, innovative and secure processes and operations
To confidently comply with regulations
To manage resources and security investments effectively
To win and retain business by demonstrating robust security standards

Our partners and professionals combine technical, regulatory and business expertise for practical, independent and commercially aware cyber security services and advice. Across strategy, protection, detection, response and recovery, we build a positive case for avoiding the worst: Building resilience, optimising security and putting in place proportionate solutions that keep you secure and work for the business.

Cyber risks: Every business, all the time

Businesses face a complex and rapidly evolving cyber risk landscape, from malicious insiders, ransomware, phishing attacks, cyber fraud and social engineering to advanced persistent threats and zero day exploits that target unpatched vulnerabilities. Risks can even come from well-meaning colleagues making mistakes. All can significantly disrupt operations.

Cybercrime has become industrialised and attacks are increasingly complex, indiscriminate and impactful. The threat is incessant, sophisticated and universal.

Organisations operate in an environment that adds to the challenge:

Evolving regulations and standards complicate compliance and raise the risk of penalties for security failures
Technological change within and outside businesses introduces new threats and vulnerabilities as technologies transform organisations and industries
Skills shortages put pressure on firms trying to recruit and retain talent for internal cyber security teams

The result is that businesses face rising attacks, increasing complexity and significant gaps in their ability to address risks, with operational consequences often resulting in lengthy disruption and significant costs to recover. They need expert, focussed, pragmatic and proportionate help.

S&W’s Cyber security services practice

S&W’s Digital team addresses these challenges with professional, flexible and tailored cyber security services. We bring regulatory expertise, decades of experience of designing security strategies and working with clients to improve their security posture, and technical know-how in network, application and cloud security. We’re vendor agnostic and have a comprehensive view of the cyber solutions market to help you navigate to the right products to keep you secure and work for your business.

Flexible advice and services cover you at every stage: With board advisory services to create effective and efficient strategies; reviews to assess current maturity or identify potential vulnerabilities; expert advice following incidents or new regulatory challenges; during periods of internal organisational or systems changes; and to drive organisational improvement or in readiness for market transactions or M&A. Whatever stage you’re at, we have you covered.

Tailored for you

Whether it’s single solutions or a complete cyber security strategy, in-house support or outsourced offerings, we meet your business needs. Use us to deliver strategic and tactical outcomes, bridge gaps in your capabilities and smooth the road to reach your objectives, drawing on the capacity, capabilities and expertise you need.

Our core characteristics define our advice and services:

Holistic, combining technology, data and operational cyber expertise for a comprehensive view of your technology and business challenges
Partner-led with services delivered by experienced professionals bringing technical expertise and strategic insights from across your industry
Personal, based on long-term client relationships that ensure our partners understand your business, goals and needs
Independent and untied to technology providers, to offer you the most suitable solutions, make the most of existing investments and avoid unnecessary spending

Our cyber services

Cyber strategy and transformation

We define and design cyber security strategies that put your business first. We will work closely with you to ensure we understand your risks, needs and value drivers. Considering your people, processes and technology alongside your business objectives, we align cyber strategies with your operations, goals and ambitions. A well-designed strategy can reduce and manage your exposure to risks, strengthen compliance, promote trust and optimise costs without compromising security. Work with us to make cyber security a value driver and a business enabler.
Security architecture and engineering

Your security architecture starts with the business strategy. We work to understand how you operate for an accurate evaluation of your business requirements and risks, to model threats, and to define the metrics that will measure the cyber strategy’s success. We identify appropriate security services, often by adopting a relevant cyber security framework, such as NIST, and write technical strategies and execution roadmaps. Finally, we will work with you to identify suitable security mechanisms, finding the right vendors for your requirements, configuring the solution and ensuring security by design.
Cyber governance risk and compliance

The proliferation of cyber security regulations and standards has created a complex patchwork of coverage and obligations for businesses. Wherever you work and whatever your industry, we simplify your cyber compliance. Whether it’s GDPR, the UK Data Protection Act 2018, NIS and NIS 2, EU DORA, or SRA Standards and Regulation, the FCA handbook and PRA rulebook, we will help you understand how they affect your operations, assess your risk and put processes, systems and controls in place to keep you compliant.
Cyber technical assurance

Our technical assurance services test, evaluate and report on your cyber controls, systems, processes and posture. Our insights can inform your strategy, confirm compliance and reassure regulators, customers and clients. We bring value at any stage of the business. As your organisation grows, expectations evolve and regulations change, assurance services help identify emerging risks and exposures and keep your defences current. We also support organisations with certification against relevant security standards.
Identity and access management

In an ever-changing world and amid an increasing threat landscape, identity is the new perimeter organisations need to protect and secure. Whether you are managing a more mobile workforce, adhering to mandates, moving data or systems to the cloud or experiencing rapid growth or M&A, we find solutions to give people access to the information and tools they need while keeping your company and customers secure.
Resilience and recovery

We help contain the consequences of cyber incidents and data breaches, building resilience before attacks and recovering more quickly afterwards: Leading technical and managerial incident responses; supporting or leading stakeholder communications; and implementing remediation strategies to return to business as usual. Analysing root causes, we also help businesses develop proportionate responses to incidents that prevent recurrence and enhance defence and recovery capabilities for the future.

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Secure your future

Talk to our team to explore how to reduce your cyber risks and build a more resilient business.

Mark Hendry

Partner

Message +44 204 617 5285

London

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