The Security Awareness Problem
What the Assessment Actually Provides
Our assessment combines two approaches: a structured questionnaire about your IT environment paired with automated scanning against your publicly exposed assets. The questionnaire makes the tool context-aware—if you don’t have a website, it won’t run web-specific tests. If you operate purely in Microsoft 365, it focuses on cloud security configurations.
The 15-minute process delivers an immediate report showing where you stand across critical security domains: authentication security, endpoint protection, email security, backup strategies, access controls, and monitoring capabilities.
This isn’t a comprehensive security audit. It’s a baseline assessment designed to answer a simple question: based on what we can evaluate quickly, should you be concerned about your security posture?
The assessment evaluates configurations against GDPR compliance requirements, highlighting gaps that could create regulatory exposure for UK businesses handling customer data.Why We’re Offering This for Free
Our approach to business development has always prioritised relationship building over aggressive sales tactics. Offering a free security assessment aligns with that philosophy in several ways.
First, it provides immediate value without requiring commitment. You receive actionable insights about your security posture regardless of whether you engage us for remediation. That’s genuine value, not a sales pitch disguised as consultation.
Second, it creates awareness. Many businesses simply don’t know what questions to ask about their cybersecurity. The assessment highlights considerations you may not have thought about—from multi-factor authentication coverage to backup recovery testing frequency. Those “aha moments” matter more than sales pressure.
Third, it starts relationships authentically. When we demonstrate that we understand security challenges and can provide useful insights quickly, businesses gain confidence in our expertise. From there, conversations about comprehensive security improvements happen naturally—not because we pushed, but because the value became evident.
From Awareness to Comprehensive Protection
For businesses that do want to go further, the free assessment naturally connects to our broader cybersecurity service portfolio. We can perform detailed vulnerability scans, implement endpoint detection and response through Huntress, deploy human risk management training via our Human Firewall programme, and establish comprehensive monitoring across your entire environment.
These services help UK businesses meet GDPR Article 32 requirements for appropriate technical and organisational security measures, providing documented evidence of security programme maturity for regulatory compliance.But none of that happens unless you first understand where you stand. That’s what the free assessment provides: clarity about your current security posture and enough information to make informed decisions about what comes next.
The Permanent Offering
We launched our Cyber Security Awareness Month focus in October, emphasising that cybersecurity for SMEs doesn’t require enterprise-level budgets. This free assessment tool makes that commitment permanent.
Whether you engage us for comprehensive security services, work with your current provider, or handle improvements internally, the assessment remains available. Because lifting the fog around cybersecurity benefits everyone—and creating that awareness matters more than capturing every sales opportunity.
Security starts with understanding your baseline. Everything else follows from there.
