{"id":9,"date":"2020-04-06T18:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pragmaticsecurity.co.uk\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2026-10-24T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T11:39:21","slug":"services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pragmaticsecurity.co.uk\/index.php\/services\/","title":{"rendered":"Services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Security spending should be driven by risk, not by fear or fashion. We help leadership teams understand where their real exposure lies, decide what level of protection is appropriate, and then put it in place in a way that supports the business rather than obstructing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our services span independent advice, assurance, secure design and engineering, and ongoing managed protection. They can be engaged individually or combined, and every engagement is scoped to the outcome you need rather than to a standard package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How we work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Proportionate.<\/strong> Controls are matched to the value of what they protect and the likelihood of the threats you actually face.<\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>Independent.<\/strong> We do not resell products or take commission, so our recommendations are made solely on their merits.<\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>Evidence-based.<\/strong> Advice is grounded in recognised frameworks, including NCSC guidance, ISO\/IEC 27001 and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, and in what we find in your environment.<\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>Accountable.<\/strong> You deal directly with experienced practitioners who own the work from assessment through to delivery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ways to engage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Advisory retainer.<\/strong> Ongoing access to senior security counsel for leadership, risk committees and IT teams, including a fractional CISO role where required.<\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>Fixed-scope engagement.<\/strong> A defined piece of work, such as a risk assessment, architecture review or certification programme, with agreed deliverables and cost.<\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>Managed service.<\/strong> Continuous monitoring, maintenance and support of your security controls under a service agreement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who we work with<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over more than twenty years we have supported central and local government, financial services, utilities, telecommunications, retail, pharmaceutical and professional services organisations, from national programmes to established regional firms. We never publish or reference client names.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proportionate security advice, engineering and managed services for organisations that take risk seriously but expect it to be handled sensibly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticsecurity.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticsecurity.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticsecurity.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticsecurity.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticsecurity.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticsecurity.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticsecurity.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticsecurity.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticsecurity.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}