Cyber Security

Watched around the clock.

Most organisations do not fail at security because they lack tools. They fail because nobody is watching the tools at three in the morning, and because nobody agreed in advance what happens when an alert turns out to be real.

ESS runs risk-led security operations for organisations working in regulated and high-risk environments. Continuous monitoring across endpoint, network and cloud, structured response when something gets through, and measurable reduction in exposure — delivered as a service rather than a project, and reported on monthly so you can see what it bought you.

24/7

Security monitoring

Managed services

Security platforms

Lifecycle stages

Platforms

The software behind the service

Two platforms carry the operation. Clients get the dashboards, not just the report at the end of the month.

Unified security operations platform

ESS Protect

One dashboard for monitoring, detection, compliance and response. Continuous visibility across infrastructure and endpoints, with AI-assisted correlation that turns scattered alerts into a single readable timeline of what actually happened.

Continuous infrastructure monitoring for misconfiguration and drift
Detection and classification of suspicious activity and resource change
Centralised visibility into network threats and attack activity
Threat intelligence and reputation context on every indicator
AI-assisted alert correlation and timeline reconstruction
Multi-tenant, so a group can run several entities from one console

Vulnerability and attack-surface dashboard

ESS Secure

Build-time and runtime risk in one place. Scan results from your pipelines, runtime alerts from container environments, leaked-credential monitoring and external attack-surface discovery, rendered as a single health score per company.

Automated vulnerability ingestion with CVE detail, fix version and mean time to fix
Credential and breach monitoring for company addresses and usernames
External attack-surface discovery and uptime monitoring for public assets
Company-scoped data isolation with role-based access
Health score, severity trend charts and full pipeline history

What we run

16 managed services, in three lines

Security operations

Continuous detection and the people to act on it. Monitoring only earns its keep if someone responds when an alert turns out to be real.

Security operations monitoring

A staffed operations centre watching your estate around the clock, with event correlation so a signal in one system is read against everything else happening at the same moment.

24x7 SOC monitoring
SIEM event correlation
Security event monitoring
Real-time alerting
Escalation management
Monthly reporting and service reviews

Vulnerability testing

Finding exposure across your assets and ranking it by the risk it actually carries, so remediation effort goes where it changes the outcome rather than where it is easiest.

Automated and manual vulnerability scanning
Exposure prioritisation by real risk
Configuration and hardening review
Attack surface mapping
Remediation guidance and retest

Penetration testing

Adversarial validation of the controls you already have. Testing establishes whether a defence works, not merely whether it was configured.

External and internal network testing
Web and mobile application testing
Cloud configuration testing
Social engineering and phishing simulation
Written findings with reproduction steps

Dark web monitoring

Watching the places stolen credentials are traded, so a breach somewhere else does not quietly become a breach of yours.

Credential and breach monitoring
Company domain and executive monitoring
Spoofed and exposed domain detection
Alerting on exposure before exploitation

Endpoint detection and response

EDR-driven threat hunting and containment, isolating a compromised machine before lateral movement turns one incident into many.

EDR deployment and tuning
Threat hunting across the endpoint estate
Automated containment and isolation
Patch management
Device hardening

Incident response and investigation

Structured containment when something does get through, followed by a written account of what happened, what it reached, and what changes so it does not work twice.

Emergency response retainers
Forensic analysis and evidence handling
Containment and eradication
Root cause reporting
Post-incident control hardening

Infrastructure and cloud

The layer most breaches actually come through. Built, hardened and watched as one piece of work rather than three separate projects.

Secure cloud hosting

Provisioning and management of high-availability cloud infrastructure on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud, hardened at build rather than retrofitted after an audit.

Cloud server provisioning: compute, storage, networking
Secure data centre environments
OS installation and hardening
Firewall and access control configuration
Multi-factor authentication
High availability and failover
Regular security patching
Compliance-aligned configuration

Network installation and security

Design, deployment and securing of enterprise network infrastructure, including the segmentation that decides how far an intrusion can travel.

LAN design and implementation
Router, switch and firewall installation
Secure Wi-Fi configuration
VLAN segmentation
VPN for remote access
Intrusion detection and prevention
Network hardening and performance tuning

Backup and disaster recovery

Backups that have been restored from, not merely taken. Untested backups are a plan, not a protection.

Automated scheduled backups
Full, incremental and differential backups
Encrypted offsite and cloud storage
Backup health monitoring
Periodic restore testing
Disaster recovery planning
Rapid data restoration

DevOps and cloud monitoring

Deployment automation and proactive infrastructure monitoring, so security posture survives the next release instead of being re-established after it.

CI/CD pipeline setup and management
Infrastructure as Code deployment
Automated build and release
Cloud resource monitoring
Performance analytics and alerting
Log aggregation and analysis
Capacity planning
Cloud migration

Microsoft 365 and email security

Email remains the most-used way in. Deployment, management and protection of Microsoft 365 and the collaboration layer around it.

Microsoft 365 tenant setup and migration
Anti-phishing and anti-malware protection
Spam filtering and threat detection
Multi-factor authentication
Data loss prevention policies
Secure email gateway management
Compliance and retention policies

24x7 infrastructure monitoring and support

Continuous availability and security monitoring across network, IT and cloud, with a support line attached to it rather than a dashboard nobody is reading.

24x7 infrastructure monitoring
Real-time alerting and incident response
Remote troubleshooting and support
Patch management
Performance monitoring
Escalation management

Identity, advisory and IT

Credentials, governance and the day-to-day estate — the parts of security that are organisational as much as technical.

Password and identity management

Securing the credentials that most intrusions ultimately rely on, from the shared vault through to privileged accounts and joiner-leaver process.

Enterprise password vault
Secure password sharing
Password generation and rotation
MFA and SSO integration
Privileged account management
Employee onboarding and offboarding

Security consulting

Risk-led advisory: establishing where exposure actually sits, what the regulator expects, and which controls are worth the money.

Security posture and risk assessment
Compliance readiness: PCI DSS, HIPAA-aligned controls
Security policy development and review
Architecture and threat modelling review
Incident response playbook development

Managed IT services

The wider estate handled alongside the security work, because a well-defended network with an unmanaged device fleet is not defended.

Device and asset management
Helpdesk and user support
Software licensing and patching
Procurement and deployment
Monthly service reporting

Awareness and training

Programmes that turn staff from the most-targeted surface into the one that reports the attempt.

Phishing simulation campaigns
Security awareness training
Secure development training
Security workshops and webinars
Role-specific briefings for executives and finance

How an engagement runs

Assess

Establish the risk profile, the assets that matter and the exposure that exists today.

Implement

Deploy monitoring and controls against that profile rather than a generic baseline.

Monitor

Continuous detection across endpoint, network and cloud, watched around the clock.

Respond

Structured containment and investigation when an alert proves real, on agreed timelines.

Improve

Feed every incident back into the controls, so the same route does not work twice.

Sectors we cover

Financial services

Regulatory compliance, fraud detection and protection of high-value transaction infrastructure.

Legal services

Privileged data protection, matter confidentiality and secure client communication.

Healthcare

Patient data integrity, HIPAA-aligned controls and medical device network segmentation.

Logistics

Supply chain visibility, OT/IT convergence security and ransomware resilience.

Find out what is already exposed

Most engagements start with an assessment: what you have, what is reachable from outside, and what a determined attacker would reach first.

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