Services
What Cyphral does.
Three core services for UK small businesses: Cyber Essentials readiness, ongoing Cyber Care, and security automation. Each with a clear scope, a clear price, and a clear ending.
Cyber Essentials
The UK government-backed cyber security certification scheme. We prepare your business for the IASME assessment by scoping your environment, auditing against the five technical controls, guiding remediation, and producing a clean submission. We don't certify; IASME and accredited Certification Bodies do.
Cyber Essentials Readiness Sprint
Two-week intensive preparation for your first Cyber Essentials certification. We handle the readiness journey end-to-end: scope your IT environment, audit it against the requirements, guide remediation of any gaps, and prepare your IASME Question Set submission.
- ·Initial scope review and environment mapping
- ·Gap analysis against all five CE technical controls
- ·Remediation guidance and hands-on support where needed
- ·IASME Question Set drafted and reviewed before submission
- ·One round of revisions after assessor feedback
From £395
Founding client offer: from £200
The IASME assessment fee (currently £320+VAT for micro businesses) is paid separately to the certification body. It is not included in our fee.
Cyber Essentials Renewal
A streamlined version of the same flow for businesses with existing CE certification approaching renewal. Most of your controls are already in place. We focus on what has changed since last year and on any new requirements from updated scheme versions.
- ·Review of previous year's submission
- ·Check against the current scheme version (v3.3, April 2026)
- ·Updates to evidence and Question Set
- ·Submission of renewal application
From £195
Founding client offer: from £100
IASME assessment fee paid separately, as above.
Cyber Care
Ongoing cyber security support for businesses that don't have an in-house team. A monthly retainer keeps your security posture current between major projects. Patches reviewed and applied, incidents triaged, policies kept up to date, advisory work when you need it.
Cyber Care — Small
Monthly support for micro businesses (up to 10 employees). Patches reviewed, incidents triaged, quarterly security posture review, and email support during UK business hours.
- ·Monthly patch review and application guidance
- ·Incident triage and response guidance
- ·Quarterly security posture review and written summary
- ·Email support during business hours
- ·Annual CE renewal preparation included
£125/month
Founding client offer: £100/month
Cyber Care — Mid
Monthly support for small businesses (10 to 50 employees). Everything in Small, plus proactive vulnerability monitoring, faster response times, and one defined improvement project per quarter.
- ·Everything in Cyber Care — Small
- ·Proactive vulnerability monitoring on critical systems
- ·Same-business-day response on incidents
- ·One quarterly improvement project
- ·Quarterly leadership briefing
£225/month
Founding client offer: £175/month
Automation
Custom automation work for SMEs with repetitive operational or security tasks that consume staff time. We build small, focused automations (Python scripts, CI/CD pipelines, integrations between business tools) and hand them over with documentation so your team can run and extend them.
Automation Workflow
A one-off automation project, scoped and delivered in one engagement. Typical work: automating compliance reporting, integrating two tools so data flows between them, building a scheduled security check script. Scope is defined upfront and doesn't drift mid-project.
- ·Discovery call to understand the problem
- ·Scoped written proposal with deliverables and timeline
- ·Build, test, and validate
- ·Documentation so your team can maintain or extend
- ·One round of revisions after handover
From £395
Founding client offer: from £250
Automation Hourly
Flexible hourly rate for smaller automation tasks, follow-up work on existing automations, or exploratory consultation when the scope isn't clear yet. Minimum engagement: two hours.
- ·Hourly billing in 30-minute increments
- ·Remote work via screen-share or async messaging
- ·Documentation of any code or configuration produced
£45/hour
Founding client offer: £35/hour
Not sure which?
If you've been asked about Cyber Essentials, or you have ongoing cyber security work that needs a steady hand, drop a line. We'll work out what level of help makes sense. We respond within 24 hours.