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Cyber security done properly

Practical, proportionate cyber security for small and medium-sized businesses.

Helping organisations protect what matters, reduce disruption, and improve security steadily — without unnecessary cost, complexity, or overreaction.

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Every modern business relies on technology to operate. Email, cloud services, financial systems, customer data, suppliers, and third-party platforms are now part of day-to-day operations — not specialist infrastructure.

That reliance brings risk, regardless of company size.

Many small and medium-sized businesses assume cyber security only becomes relevant once they are large, regulated, or targeted. In reality, most cyber issues affecting smaller organisations are opportunistic rather than targeted. They exploit common weaknesses, not company profile.

Wolf Secure Services is an independent cyber security advisory working with small and medium-sized businesses across the UK — particularly London and the South East — who want security handled properly, but pragmatically.

Our role is to help organisations:

  • Understand where they are exposed

  • Decide what genuinely matters

  • Improve security in a way that fits how the business actually operates

Not everything needs to be done at once. What matters is making sensible, deliberate progress.

Cyber security is about resilience, not paranoia

Good cyber security isn’t about expecting the worst or planning for extreme scenarios. It’s about ensuring that everyday issues — phishing emails, compromised accounts, system outages, supplier failures — don’t escalate into serious business disruption.

For most organisations, good security means:

  • The business keeps running

  • Customer trust is protected

  • Preventable incidents are avoided

  • Issues can be handled calmly when they arise

Security should support the business, not slow it down.

Why cyber security matters for smaller organisations

Smaller businesses are often more exposed to disruption, not less. They typically:

  • Depend on a small number of systems or suppliers

  • Have limited internal capacity to respond to incidents

  • Rely heavily on email and cloud platforms to operate

  • Can’t easily absorb prolonged downtime or reputational damage

Most incidents affecting smaller organisations are not sophisticated attacks. They are the result of well-known weaknesses that haven’t been addressed consistently.

Good cyber security reduces the likelihood of becoming an easy problem to stumble into.

What “good” cyber security looks like for most SMEs

For most small and medium-sized businesses, good cyber security means:

  • You know which systems and data matter most

  • Basic protections are in place and maintained

  • Risks are identified, prioritised, and tracked

  • Responsibility for security is clear

  • You can respond calmly if something goes wrong

It does not mean:

  • Complex tooling

  • Large in-house security teams

  • Heavy bureaucracy

  • Doing everything at once

Most organisations don’t start in this position — they build toward it over time.

Our role is to help businesses reach — and maintain — this level of control in a way that is realistic, sustainable, and proportionate.

How we support organisations

Our services are grouped into clear domains that reflect how cyber security actually works in practice:

Advisory-first

We start by understanding how your business operates, where it depends on technology, and what would genuinely cause harm if it went wrong.

Risk-led

Not all risks are equal. We help focus effort and budget where it actually reduces exposure, rather than spreading attention thinly.

 

 

Built to improve over time

Security improves when it’s introduced in manageable steps that teams can absorb, maintain, and build on.

 

 

Independent and vendor neutral

Our advice is not driven by technology partnerships. It’s driven by experience, judgement, and what’s in your organisation’s best interests.

 

Managed CyberOps

Managed Cyber Operations

For many organisations, the challenge isn’t a lack of technology — it’s a lack of clear ownership, prioritisation, and follow-through.

Managed Cyber Operations provides an ongoing cyber security function, led by senior security leadership and supported by day-to-day operational coordination.

It helps organisations:

  • Establish clear responsibility for cyber security

  • Make informed decisions about risk and priorities

  • Coordinate security activity consistently

  • Improve security steadily rather than sporadically

For many businesses, this replaces uncertainty with control.

Instead of wondering whether risks are being missed or actions are being followed up, there is a clear point of accountability month to month. That continuity is what allows security to improve over time.

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Security Leadership & Governance

Supporting owners and senior leaders in making proportionate, informed decisions about cyber risk and responsibility.

Assurance, Compliance & Confidence

Meeting customer, insurer, and regulatory expectations without losing sight of real security.

 

Operational Security Foundations

Reducing everyday exposure through practical, well-maintained controls.

 

Threat Detection, Response & Resilience

Being prepared to detect issues early and respond calmly when something goes wrong.

 

Security Culture, Supply Chain & Enablement

Reducing risk through behaviour, third-party oversight, and practical internal structure.

 

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Maturity progression

A structured approach, not guesswork

Our work is informed by Informosec™, a proprietary cyber security maturity and operating framework designed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses.

Informosec™ provides a clear way to:

  • Understand your current security position

  • Prioritise improvements realistically

  • Track progress over time

It draws on recognised standards such as Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001, NCSC guidance, and NIST — but is designed to support judgement and proportion, not box-ticking.

Informosec™ exists to replace guesswork with structure, so decisions are reasoned rather than reactive.

How we work

Common assumptions we help organisations move past

  • “We’re too small to need cyber security”

  • “Security only matters once you’re regulated”

  • “We’ll deal with it if something happens”

  • “We don’t have time for this”

These assumptions are common — and understandable.

Our work is about helping organisations move from uncertainty to clarity, without pressure, fear, or judgement.

Aligned with recognised standards and expectations, including Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001, NCSC CAF, and NIST.

Engagements are typically ongoing and scaled to the organisation’s size, risk, and level of support required.If you’d like to talk through your situation and understand what sensible next steps might look like, we’re happy to have that conversation.

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Engagements are typically ongoing and scaled to the organisation’s size, risk, and level of support required.

If you’d like to talk through your situation and understand what sensible next steps might look like, we’re happy to have that conversation.

Get in touch