Email & Identity
Compromised passwords, phishing and fake invoice requests can give attackers access to email, files and business systems.
Cyber Security
Cyber Security for Small Businesses
Protect your business before a cyber incident becomes a business crisis.
Strategic Data Services helps SMEs across Wokingham and the Thames Valley reduce cyber risk, strengthen Microsoft 365 and endpoint security, prepare for Cyber Essentials, and put practical protections around the systems and data their business depends on.
Book a Free Cyber Security ReviewA practical starting point
Small businesses are not too small to be targeted.
SMEs can be attractive targets because security controls are often less mature than those of larger organisations. Phishing, compromised accounts, ransomware, fraudulent invoices and stolen credentials can interrupt operations, disrupt cash flow and damage customer trust.
Cyber security is a business-resilience issue, not just an IT problem. Many larger customers and regulated supply chains increasingly expect suppliers to demonstrate recognised security controls.
You don’t need an enterprise security department. You need sensible controls, implemented properly and kept under review.
Business risk in plain English
Where could your business be exposed?
Laptops & Devices
Unpatched or poorly protected devices can expose company data wherever your team works.
Microsoft 365 & Cloud
Weak access controls or misconfiguration can leave sensitive information more exposed than expected.
People & Process
Even good technology can be undermined by unclear processes, poor security awareness or excessive access permissions.
Core cyber security services
Practical protection for the risks that matter.
Cyber Essentials Readiness
Assess your current security against the UK government-backed Cyber Essentials controls, identify gaps and help prepare your organisation for certification.
Vulnerability Management
Identify missing patches, outdated software and known security weaknesses so the highest-risk issues can be prioritised and resolved before they are exploited.
Email & Identity Protection
Reduce the risk of phishing, stolen credentials and account compromise through stronger Microsoft 365 security and optimisation, authentication and email-protection controls.
Endpoint Protection
Protect staff laptops and other business devices using modern endpoint security, sensible configuration and threat-detection controls designed to stop malicious activity spreading through the organisation.
Managed Threat Protection
Extended Detection & Response (XDR)
Bring security signals from endpoints, identities, email and cloud services together so suspicious behaviour can be detected and investigated across the wider environment rather than in isolation.
A clear route to value
A practical route to stronger security
01
Understand the Risk
Review your current devices, Microsoft 365 environment, access controls, vulnerabilities and working practices to identify the areas that present the greatest business risk.
02
Fix What Matters First
Turn the findings into a proportionate improvement plan, prioritising the controls that reduce the most risk without creating unnecessary complexity or cost.
03
Implement the Right Controls
Strengthen identity, endpoints, email, cloud configuration, patching and other security controls appropriate to the organisation.
04
Keep Security Current
Review vulnerabilities, configuration and changing business requirements over time so security continues to match the way the organisation operates.
Cyber Essentials
Need Cyber Essentials — or want to know how close you already are?
Cyber Essentials provides a practical baseline for protecting your organisation against common cyber threats and is increasingly valuable when working with larger customers and supply chains.
Strategic Data Services can review your current environment, identify gaps against the Cyber Essentials controls and help prepare your business for assessment.
Book a Free Cyber Essentials Readiness ReviewWhy work with us?
Why Strategic Data Services?
Practical, Not Paranoid
Cyber security should reduce business risk without making normal work unnecessarily difficult. We focus on sensible controls proportionate to your organisation.
Security in Plain English
We explain the business risk, what needs changing and why — without hiding straightforward recommendations behind acronyms and technical jargon.
Enterprise Experience, SME Reality
We apply experience from larger IT and security environments in a way that makes sense for the budgets, people and technology available to smaller organisations.
Not sure how secure your business really is?
A practical cyber security review can identify your most important risks, highlight straightforward improvements and show whether your current protection is proportionate to your business.
Book a Free Cyber Security ReviewNo jargon. No obligation. Just practical advice about reducing your cyber risk.
RESPONSIBLE AI USE
Security and AI governance work together
Responsible AI use needs clear controls around information, access, suppliers and human review. Our AI governance support connects these requirements with your existing security processes.