Our Work

A CISO leads a company’s cybersecurity strategy and protects its digital assets.

Fed up watching bigger companies snap up all the decent contracts whilst you're stuck scratching your head to show your information security credentials?

Smart SMEs have found a brilliant way to level the playing field... without breaking the bank on a full-time CISO.

Picture this: You've got a solid bid ready to go for that £1.2M contract. Price is spot-on, track record's perfect... then you hit that dreaded security questionnaire. Suddenly you're facing 50 questions about your security management, security posture, and risk assessments.

Strategy & Direction

Just ask Paul Davey at Red Fox ID his business was facing losing a contract to supply a traffic analysis solution for a major toll road project in Europe not because of price or capability, but because they couldn't demonstrate proper security management. The price and service had been agreed by the client, but the customer would not budge on the security requirements.


You might think you can muddle through with your IT manager wearing another hat. That's what the company thought. 'We thought we could handle it internally,' he admits. 'Then we faced a complex due diligence assessment. That's when we realised, we were way out of our depth.'

But here's what forward-thinking SMEs have figured out...

Take Crimson Group in Houston Texas

They brought in a fractional CISO last year –instant access to senior security expertise without the six-figure salary. Within the first month they had saved a major contract to provide health insurance policy administration and within 6 months they had achieved ISO 27001 certification as the contract demanded enabling them to secure further contracts with other providers.

The CEO couldn’t believe how simple it was

‘It’s funny - we happily pay monthly retainers for our accountant, legal advice and HR consultant. A fractional CISO? About the same cost. Except they help land the big contracts and support our business in our expansion plans’

Or consider Inventory Management Europe.

They wanted to offer their Information Technology Asset Disposition Service services to larger UK public sector clients their fractional CISO has helped them achieve ISO27001 Certification and registration as a Crown Commercial Service Supplier. 

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  • After listening to Keith at our regular networking meetings I asked him to do an audit for my business. OMG. If there was a scoring system, I think I would have got a D-. But Keith was very non-judgemental and extremely knowledgeable, and the next day created an action list of what I need to do. This has been a wakeup call that I could easily have been a victim of a cyber-attack, and the consequences would be horrendous


    Janine Chandler, CEO Jump in Puddles


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  • This is a milestone that we should all take great pride in achieving the ISO27001 Certification of out information security management system. Having this external validation of the hard work and effort we have all been contributing is always fulfilling and will help our business in our expansion plans. I’d like to give a special shout out to Keith for leading us through this process and getting us over the finish line successfully. We haven’t always been the most organized and co-operative team, thank you for your effort, quality and perseverance on this project


    Mike Sullivan, CEO Crimson Holding Group

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  • I employed Keith to help with a very complicated ISO27001 certification delivery for a large global organisation. Keith was able to understand the organisation very quickly and ensure that all of the controls were in place by using his detailed knowledge of the standards. We found Keith to be a great resource and I would not hesitate to recommend him to any organisation that needs assistance in any certification project. Keith is a very reliable and dependent security consultant with a wealth of real-world knowledge that helps him deliver great work on time and budge


    Mark Belgrove SRM - Head of Cyber Security

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