Cyber security, Cheshire
Cyber security for Cheshire businesses, built into your IT support
Cyber security for Cheshire businesses from a Microsoft partner who spent twenty years securing hospital and government systems. These are the cyber security services a small firm in Chester, Warrington or Crewe actually needs: sign-in security, patching, tested backups, threat detection and the evidence your insurer asks for. Run properly every day, and priced before we start.
Run to the NCSC’s Cyber Essentials standards. Microsoft and Datto partner. Covering Cheshire from the Wirral, next door to Chester.
Cyber security services in Cheshire for firms of two to fifty people
Cheshire’s business base is exactly the kind that gets targeted without ever being picked out. Accountancy and law practices in Chester, financial advisers in Wilmslow and Knutsford, the offices on Birchwood Park in Warrington, manufacturers and distributors around Crewe and Ellesmere Port, estate agents in every market town. All of them hold client data or move money, and most of them don’t have anyone whose job is cyber security.
That’s who our cyber security in Cheshire is for. Not a security operations centre selling a dashboard, but the handful of controls that stop the attacks small businesses actually get, run all the time and written down so you can prove it. For most Cheshire firms, good cyber security and good IT support are the same work, so we do them together.
What our cyber security covers for Cheshire businesses
All of it’s inside the IT support, at £55 a person a month.
Sign-in security
Multi-factor authentication on every Microsoft 365 account and every admin login. The single setting that stops most account break-ins, set up once, properly, for everyone.
Patching on a schedule
Updates applied on a regular cycle, with critical fixes inside the 14 days Cyber Essentials asks for, and nothing left running past its end of support.
Threat detection and response
Every machine watched for the behaviour of ransomware and credential theft. A compromised device is isolated automatically before it can spread across the office.
Email filtering
Phishing, supplier impersonation and malicious attachments stopped before anyone reads them. With 85% of attacks starting in an inbox (DSIT 2025), this is where most of the stopping happens.
Backups that restore
Files, email and Microsoft 365 backed up somewhere ransomware can’t reach, and restored on a schedule to prove it works.
Evidence for the questionnaire
Controls mapped to Cyber Essentials and to the questions insurers and bigger clients ask, kept current, so the answer is a document rather than a scramble.
A cyber security consultant for Cheshire firms, without the consultancy invoice
Some Cheshire businesses don’t need a new provider, they need a second pair of eyes. The IT company’s fine for day-to-day support. But the insurer’s renewal form has questions nobody can answer, or a client wants a security questionnaire back by Friday, or the board wants to know whether Cyber Essentials is realistic.
That’s a fixed piece of cyber security consultancy: Eric reviews what’s in place, tells you plainly where the gaps are, and writes up the evidence. Scoped and priced before anyone starts. If your current setup’s fine, you’ll be told that too.
Cybersecurity for small businesses in Cheshire: six questions to ask yourself
Whether you call it cyber security or cybersecurity, these six tell you most of what you need to know about where a Cheshire small business stands. If you can’t answer three of them, that’s what the first month of our cyber security fixes. The full ten-point version is in our cyber security guide for small businesses.
- Is multi-factor sign-in on for every account, including the directors’?
- When did someone last restore a file from the backup, and does it include email?
- Is every work laptop patched and running antimalware, including the ones at home?
- Does anyone use an administrator account for everyday work?
- Did the last person to leave lose access the same day?
- If an insurer asked for evidence of all that tomorrow, could you send it?
Cyber security across Cheshire, remote first
Chester and the business parks off the A55. Warrington, Birchwood and Centre Park. Crewe, Nantwich and the Cheshire East towns. Macclesfield, Wilmslow, Knutsford and Northwich. Ellesmere Port and Runcorn. Cyber security is done from a screen, so it’s the same service for a firm in Tarporley as for one on Chester Business Park, and most problems are fixed within minutes of you ringing.
If something needs a person in the room, a network being replaced or a handover day, the visit is booked in. Eric’s on the Wirral, next door to Chester, so Cheshire’s home turf rather than a distant patch. For local guidance, Cheshire Constabulary’s cyber crime pages and the North West Cyber Resilience Centre are both worth a read, and neither’s selling anything.
What cyber security costs a Cheshire business
All of our cyber security is inside managed IT support at £55 a person a month: antimalware with threat detection and response, updates on a schedule, multi-factor sign-in, email filtering, phishing practice, breached-password monitoring, account-takeover alerts, tested backups and monitoring. Consultancy pieces, a review, a questionnaire, Cyber Essentials readiness, are fixed price. Round-the-clock monitoring by a security operations centre is available as an extra.
Cyber security in Cheshire, priced
Same number every month. Microsoft licences billed separately.
Cyber security in Cheshire: the questions people ask first
Do you provide cyber security across the whole of Cheshire?
Yes. Chester, Warrington, Crewe, Macclesfield, Northwich, Wilmslow, Knutsford, Nantwich, Ellesmere Port and everywhere between. Cyber security is remote work by nature, so it's the same service in Congleton as it is in Chester. When something needs a person in the room, a new network or a handover day, the visit is scheduled.
How much do cyber security services cost for a Cheshire business?
All of it is inside our managed IT support at £55 a person a month: antimalware with threat detection and response, updates on a schedule, multi-factor sign-in, email filtering, phishing practice, breached-password monitoring, account-takeover alerts, tested backups and monitoring. Consultancy pieces, a review, a questionnaire or Cyber Essentials readiness, are a fixed price. You'd know the whole number before agreeing to anything.
Can you act as a cyber security consultant rather than a provider?
Yes, for a fixed piece of work. A Cheshire firm with IT support it's happy with sometimes just needs somebody to review the setup, answer an insurer's or client's questionnaire properly, or get it ready for Cyber Essentials. That's scoped and quoted as a fixed price first.
We already have an IT company in Cheshire. Can you work alongside them?
Yes, that's co-managed cyber security. They keep the helpdesk and the day-to-day, we run the security layer, and the boundary's written down so both sides know whose job an alert is.
Will this get us through Cyber Essentials?
The controls map directly onto the scheme, and we run to Cyber Essentials standards ourselves. Getting a small business through it is a known piece of work rather than a project.
Are you based in Cheshire?
Eric's on the Wirral, next door to Chester, and the work is done remotely for businesses across Cheshire and Merseyside. Most fixes happen on your screen within minutes, and anything that needs a visit is booked in.
Have a chat with Eric
Fifteen minutes with Eric. Bring the insurer’s form if that’s what started this.
That didn’t send. Ring 0151 452 3060 and you’ll get me directly, or email [email protected].
Cyber security for your Cheshire business, done properly
Cyber security services for small firms across Cheshire, from Chester to Crewe, with the full stack built into IT support at £55 a person a month. Ring and a person picks up.