Cyber Mentor

Ongoing Cybersecurity support and guidance, delivered as and when you need it.

The current cybersecurity skills shortage means that attracting, retaining and growing critical security skills is now a significant challenge for many organisations. Recent data from the UK Government’s Cyber security skills in the UK labour market 2023 report showed that “50% of all UK businesses have a basic cyber security skills gap”.

A shortage of internal security expertise can result in organisations making costly mistakes in strategically important areas such as recruitment, solution procurement, risk management and longer term security program planning. These are all areas in which missteps or coverage gaps can prove to be expensive and disruptive.

We offer a highly flexible solution that can provide efficient and cost effective access to the cybersecurity skills and experience you need. This can include:

  • Pre-allocated consultant time to use as and when you need it.

  • On-demand security consulting that is billed by the day or hour.

  • Assigned full time consultants for specific projects.

  • Assigned 1:1 mentors for your staff to support them during specific projects or for ongoing security skills development.

Engagements can range from a few hours of on-demand consulting though to long-term support for strategic projects, and we can cover a wide range of technical areas:

  • Support with security recruitment and career development. Including role definition, candidate screening and technical interviews.

  • Strategic security planning and longer term risk management.

  • Independent advice on selecting and deploying new security tools, services or technologies.

  • Network security analysis. Ranging from high-level attack surface risk assessments through to detailed vulnerability and exploit analysis.

  • The full range of product security / SDLC activities including secure architecture, design and source code reviews, threat modeling, risk management and process development.

  • Custom security engineering solutions, data analytics and API development.

Security is a field where effective risk management, threat awareness and deep technical knowledge are all critical to success. These are all skills that are developed over time and tend to be a common blind spot for organisations without experienced security staff. Our Cyber Mentor program can fill these critical gaps almost immediately and will significantly improve your chances of successfully protecting your organisation and your customers.

If you would like more details, or would like to discuss a specific engagement, please get in touch.