Who we look after
We look after over 100 businesses of 5 to 60 people across South Wales, Cardiff and the South West, in every sector you can think of. Four of them come with rules attached that change what a good setup looks like, and those are the four below.
Over 100businesses across every sector
5 to 60people is where we work best
around 180users at our largest client
Pick your world
Each of these has somebody setting rules you have to answer to, whether that’s a regulator, a funder or the organisation above you in a supply chain. That is what makes them different, rather than the industry itself.
IT your COLP can sign off
Conveyancing, litigation, pre-litigation and private client. The SRA expects you to identify and manage material risks and to report an incident that touches clients, and your insurer has a schedule of what you told them you were doing. We have taken firms through Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus, and we have helped a firm work out what had to go in its report to the SRA.
IT that holds up at two in the morning
Police station callouts, court and prison visits, with the whole case file travelling on a laptop. Video of the offence, photographs and witness statements. The Legal Aid Agency makes encrypting that laptop a mandatory requirement of your contract rather than a recommendation, and most firms have never read the list it sits on.
Completion money that reaches the right account
You sit in the same transaction chain as the conveyancers, which means you sit in the same fraud. Estate agency businesses have to be registered with HMRC for money laundering supervision, and trading without that registration is a criminal offence, so the client records behind it are not files you can afford to lose or leak.
Big files that open properly on site
Drawing files that are too big for the way most small businesses share things, people working from a site hut on a phone hotspot, and a main contractor or a public body asking security questions before you get on the tender list. Cyber Essentials answers most of those questions in one line.
Every site working the same way
Often several sites, often a mix of paid staff and volunteers, almost always holding information about people who are vulnerable. Budgets are set by funders rather than by you, so the answer has to be the one that actually works rather than the one with the most licences on it.
Not on this list? That is most of our clients. The next section is the honest answer about how much difference your sector actually makes.
The honest version
Less than most sector pages would have you believe. Multi-factor authentication, patching, backup that has been tested, somebody reading the security alerts, a proper joiners and leavers process: those are the same for a law firm, a letting agent and a firm of plumbers, and they are most of the work.
What genuinely changes is who asks you about it, what they ask, and what it costs you to be unable to work for a day.
A solicitor has a regulator with a reporting duty attached. An estate agent has HMRC supervision and a criminal offence sitting behind not registering. An architect has a main contractor deciding whether they are allowed to bid. A charity has a funder. Each of those turns the same underlying work into a different conversation, a different order of priority, and a different set of questions you need to be able to answer without ringing anyone.
So the security is not really sector specific. Knowing which question is coming at you, and from whom, very much is.
The regulator, the duty of confidentiality, and client money moving to a fixed completion date.
A Legal Aid contract on top of the SRA, devices that live outside the building, and evidence files nothing was designed to hold.
HMRC supervision, the customer records that go with it, and being one link in a chain an attacker is already watching.
File sizes, working away from a desk, and whoever is above you in the supply chain setting the security bar.
Multiple sites, volunteer turnover, funder requirements, and beneficiary data that matters more than the money does.
Talk to us
A regulator, an insurer, a client questionnaire, a main contractor, a funder. Tell us which it is and what you are running now, and we will tell you where you would fall short today and what it takes to fix it.
Proof
Excellent customer service and after sales support with a clear understanding of our needs and requirements as a business client. Highly recommend to other businesses. Saturday Cloud take care of literally all of our tech across our nine sites.
Next step
What you are running, how many of you there are, and what is not working. You will get a straight answer on what we would change and what it costs, whether or not your industry is on this page.
Based in Cardiff, working across Wales and the West.
