Your FREE consultation with our cybersecurity experts
Cyber threats evolve faster than your security can.
The security threat landscape has never been more complex. 43% of British businesses faced a cyber attack in the last year, while 60% of breaches involve human error, a challenge that persists even with the best training programmes.
And on top of all this complexity? 89% of security teams are stretched thin, trying to defend increasingly sophisticated hybrid infrastructures with limited resources.
The threat is real, multifaceted, and constantly evolving. But you don't have to face it alone.
We can help if you're facing:
- Security complexity – Struggling to gain visibility and control across fragmented environments while managing costs and enabling scale and agility.
- Advanced threats – Lack of readiness as attackers weaponise AI. From AI-powered social engineering to data exfiltration through unsecured AI tools, threats are evolving faster than traditional defences.
- Compliance pressure – Keeping up with evolving regulations (GDPR, PCI DSS, NIS2, DORA, HIPAA) and moving beyond tickbox exercises to actively manage risks, not just pass audits.
How we help:
- We advise on designing more secure cloud architectures and cloud security posture management
- Our approach blends Zero Trust principles, AI-enhanced threat detection, and automated incident response to build resilient security postures across all environments.
- We guide businesses through the complexities of risk management, incident response, and governance.
What your consultation includes:
- 60-minute deep dive consultation with our Cloud and Security Strategist, Miguel Ferreira. Miguel is an authority in edge security, zero trust frameworks, and threat mitigation at scale. He is also the most certified Cloudflare partner in the UK.
- Understanding your technical architecture to inform the consultation
- Understanding your compliance and regulatory requirements
- Advice on skills gap and training needs
- Follow up with recommendations tailored to your specific needs
What happens after the consultation?
No obligation. No high-pressure sales calls. After your consultation, we will arrange a follow up call where we will share and walk you through our recommendations. If you want our help implementing the recommendations, we can discuss that separately.
What's the catch?
We want you to have an open mind and take on board our recommendations. Our recommendations will allow you to prioritise, risk assess, assign ownership and add to your roadmap.
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Miguel Ferreira is the Cloud and Security Strategist at CDS, with over 20 years of experience leading technology teams.
Miguel’s technical foundation includes deep expertise in infrastructure, security, networking, virtualisation technologies such as Hyper-V and VMware and advanced cloud architecture across Microsoft Azure and AWS. His designs are rooted in a security-first philosophy, ensuring resilience, compliance, and performance are embedded from the outset. As a BSI-trained internal auditor, Miguel brings a governance and compliance lens to every engagement ensuring that solutions align with regulatory standards and organisational risk postures.
A recognised thought leader and the most certified Cloudflare partner in the UK, Miguel is an authority in edge security, zero trust frameworks, and threat mitigation at scale. His portfolio includes projects of national significance, where data sovereignty, operational assurance, and governance are paramount.
Some of his projects include Single Online Home, David Lloyd, Social Work England, and Office of Government Property.
Miguel is a strong advocate for modern security architecture, believing that simplification is not just a cost-saving measure, but a strategic enabler. He challenges legacy complexity and promotes architectures that empower organisations to understand risk, optimise performance, and build the confidence to move faster.
Our expertise
We secure the public policing websites for almost all of England and Wales: Including the crime reporting systems citizens depend on. When someone reports a crime online, they're trusting our security. We don't just tick compliance boxes—we build security that stands up to nation-state scrutiny.
We're the backbone behind Resilience Direct: The secure platform UK emergency services use during national disasters. When lives literally depend on secure communications, the government chose CDS.
Our 70+experts don't just hold certifications; they hold clearances. They've defended against real attacks, not theoretical ones.
We're Cloudflare Authorised Service Delivery Partners (the first in EMEA), and hold ISO/IEC 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus certifications. But more importantly, we hold the trust of organisations whose failure would make global headlines.
Are you facing any of the following?
Team knows systems, not advanced threats
Your admins are brilliant at infrastructure, but modern threat actors operate beyond traditional IT boundaries. APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats), zero-days, and sophisticated social engineering require specialised knowledge outside your team's expertise. You need security architects, not just systems administrators.
Can't prove ROI for security spend
Finance wants hard numbers, but how do you quantify prevented incidents? Leadership demands measurable business impact beyond "we need better security." You know improvements are needed but struggle to build the business case that gets approved.
Critical services can't afford downtime
Managing infrastructure where brief outages trigger regulatory penalties, lost public trust, or financial impact. One ransomware incident or configuration error could be career-ending. Maintaining 99.9% uptime while securing against evolving threats is unsustainable with current resources.
Limited visibility into real risk
SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) drowning you in false positives. Vulnerability scanners flagging thousands of "criticals" that aren't actually exploitable. Compliance frameworks giving you checkboxes but no context. You're making decisions based on vendor FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt), not genuine risk analysis.
How CDS can help you solve these challenges:
Risk assessment that matters
Our expert SWOT analysis cuts through the noise to identify your genuine risk vectors - not just what vendor dashboards tell you to panic about.
Proof of ROI early on
Finance wants proof before spending. Our Proof of Value methodology demonstrates measurable security improvements and business impact before you commit a single pound to new technology or headcount.
Your team knows systems, but not advanced threat mitigation
We provide World-class security architecture on flexible drawdown - so your team can focus on what they do best while we handle the specialised threat mitigation, security design and advanced response capabilities.
Consistent uptime and support
We become an extension of your security team. We provide the safety net your team needs - performance and security assurance with SLA-defined response times, so you can sleep at night.
Expertise in infrastructure and integration
Pen-tested baselines and DevOps methodology to ensure your security stack works as an integrated defence system, not disparate point solutions.
Why organisations choose us over big consulting firms
| CDS | Big Consulting Firms |
|---|---|
| Industry specialists who've built and secured national critical services and complex environments. | Junior analysts reading from playbooks but limited hands-on implementation experience. |
| Flexible and agile, tailored to work within your existing operational framework. | Standardised methodologies that don't account for your specific operational constraints. |
| Immediate actionable insights with phased implementation plans. | Pricey engagements with long timeframe, resulting in longer timeframe to see any actional results. |
| Speed of delivery, faster execution and fewer bureaucratic layers. | Longer onboarding delivery cycles, leading to longer time for ROI, showing proof of concept to senior stakeholders. |
| Trust and continuity, long term relationships with consistent teams. | Rotating teams with global resource pool. |
| Deep understanding of UK regulatory landscape, public sector requirements and enterprise complexities. | Global playbook with one size fits all approach and little local context. |
| Competitive pricing with lower overheads. | Premium pricing due to scale and brand. |
How CDS helps:
Audit
Expert SWOT analysis of your current environment to assess best practice and alignment with your goals
Quick start
World class expertise and guidance during onboard. Accessible via a flexible draw down.
Implementation
Expert, certified, efficient configuration, testing and deployment. Delivered with agility to get value quickly and safely.
1st and 2nd line
Performance and security assurance via SLA defined 24/7 ITIL service desk response and resolution support
Diagnosis
Discovery and design activity to help you understand your needs and define and document a solution
Proof of value
Deliver PVs to provide ability to meet your technical, commercial and strategic objectives before investing.
IaC/Automation
Leveraging pen tested performance and security baseline and infrastructure as code DevOps methodology
Management/optimisation
Proactive review and optimisation to manage and leverage opportunity.