Cybersecurity for Birmingham businesses —
real on-site engineers, regulator-grade controls.
Servnet designs, deploys and runs cybersecurity for Birmingham firms with regulators and ransomware actors paying attention — Colmore Business District law and finance, NHS BSol ICB-affiliated trusts, JLR Tier 1/2 supply-chain IT/OT, West Midlands universities, and Birmingham City Council. Cyber Essentials Plus through to Operational Resilience-grade controls, with engineers attending Birmingham sites on-site when something goes wrong.
Why Birmingham cyber programmes have their own profile
Birmingham concentrates the regulated estates of West Midlands finance, NHS BSol, JLR-supply-chain IT/OT, broadcast media and 6 local authorities — each with its own regulatory load and threat surface. Generic "cyber managed service" doesn't cover any of them.
FCA-aligned controls for Colmore finance
Birmingham financial-services firms (asset managers, brokers, professional services in B2 / B3) carry FCA Operational Resilience obligations the same as the City of London. We map cyber controls to the firm's Important Business Services and Impact Tolerances, ready for SMF attestation.
NHS BSol ICB + DSP Toolkit
For BSol ICB-affiliated organisations, cyber work lands directly against DSP Toolkit assertions, HSCN-aligned segmentation, NIS Regulations 2018, and the NHS-specific Boundary Security and Authentication standards.
IT/OT segmentation for JLR-supply automotive
For JLR Tier 1 / Tier 2 suppliers across Solihull / Coventry / Wolverhampton, IT/OT segmentation is the first cyber priority — keeping ransomware out of the SCADA / PLC / MES layer. Fortinet SD-WAN, segmentation, isolation, OT-aware EDR.
Cabinet Office baseline for WMCA + BCC
For Birmingham City Council, the West Midlands Combined Authority and the 6 other West Midlands authorities we configure to NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework profiles, Cabinet Office MCSS, CCS-framework software / appliances.
What Servnet cyber delivers in Birmingham
NGFW design + deployment
Multi-site FortiGate, Palo Alto, Cisco Firepower and Juniper SRX deployments — including dual-fabric for Colmore trading floors and resilient WAN edges for multi-borough WMCA estates with diverse circuits.
EDR / XDR + 24×7 monitored response
CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Sophos rollouts with eyes-on-glass triage — Birmingham-priority handling with engineer dispatch into B-postcodes inside the agreed SLA.
Identity, MFA + conditional access
Entra ID, Okta, PingFederate hardening — passwordless rollouts for B2 / B3 finance customers, conditional-access policies that survive an SRA / FCA review, PAM (CyberArk, BeyondTrust) where role demands.
Cyber Essentials Plus + ISO 27001
For Birmingham mid-market firms tendering into NHS, central government or JLR primes, CE+ readiness, remediation and assessment — plus ISO 27001 technical evidence layer behind the ISMS.
IT/OT segmentation for West Midlands manufacturing
For JLR-supply-chain and broader West Midlands manufacturers we design and deploy IT/OT segmentation — Purdue-model alignment, Fortinet OT-aware NGFW, monitored OT traffic, ransomware-resistant architecture.
Incident response retainer with on-site attendance
Retainer customers get a guaranteed in-hours and out-of-hours response with engineers physically dispatched into any West Midlands postcode for a serious incident. Forensic kit ready.
Birmingham cyber clients we work with
- ▸Colmore legal + financeB2 / B3 law firms (DLA, Eversheds, Mills & Reeve), asset managers, accountants — email security, DLP, client-confidentiality controls, mobile hardening.
- ▸NHS BSol ICB + 5 trustsBSol ICB and constituent trusts (UHB, BWC, BCHC, BSMHFT, ROH) — DSP Toolkit evidence, HSCN-aligned segmentation, clinical-system hardening, medical-device network isolation.
- ▸JLR Tier 1/2 supply chainSolihull / Coventry / Wolverhampton suppliers — Purdue-model IT/OT segmentation, Fortinet OT-aware NGFW, monitored OT traffic, ruggedised endpoint security.
- ▸West Midlands universitiesBirmingham, Aston, Warwick, Coventry — research-data classification, JANET edge security, lab-network isolation for funded projects with classification requirements.
- ▸WMCA + BCC + 6 authoritiesBCC, WMCA, TfWM, the 6 West Midlands authorities — NCSC CAF mapping, Cabinet Office MCSS, CCS-framework supply, public-sector SOC monitoring.
- ▸West Midlands manufacturing + engineeringEngineering, advanced manufacturing, metals — IT/OT segmentation, ruggedised endpoint security, multi-site SD-WAN with embedded cyber.
How we run cyber for Birmingham clients
On-site within hours into Colmore + Solihull
For monitored-response customers, a P1 incident in B-postcodes typically has an engineer in motion within an hour of the page and on-site inside 4 hours from Surrey HQ via the M40 / M42. For long-term Birmingham contracts we maintain West Midlands engineer cover.
Quarterly operational reviews
For NHS, FCA, SRA and JLR-supply customers we run quarterly reviews against the firm's controls register and Impact Tolerances (where applicable) — fed straight into the firm's SMF or Executive attestation cycle.
Out-of-hours change windows
Trading-floor firewall, EDR rollout or DC migration happens Friday-evening to Sunday-evening so Colmore and the financial estate are clean Monday open. Engineers on-site for cutover.
Quarterly threat briefings for executive sponsors
For FCA SMF holders, NHS executive leads and JLR-supply CISOs we run a 60-minute quarterly briefing — what changed in the threat landscape that affects your sector, where peers got hit, what regulators are signalling. Plain English, decision-ready.
Birmingham cybersecurity — common questions
Do you have a Birmingham office or are you driving up from Surrey?
Our HQ is in Surrey but we maintain working engineer cover in the West Midlands for ongoing customers. For monitored-response retainers, engineer in motion within an hour of page, on-site in B-postcodes typically inside 4 hours. High-volume Birmingham contracts get a dedicated West Midlands engineer added to the team.
Can you run Cyber Essentials Plus for a JLR supplier?
Yes — CE+ for JLR supply-chain qualification is a regular engagement. Readiness, remediation and assessment, with the JLR-specific flow-down requirements built into the gap-closure plan. Typical timeline 4–6 weeks for a 50–200 endpoint estate.
Do you do IT/OT segmentation for an automotive Tier 1 supplier?
Yes — Purdue-model alignment, Fortinet OT-aware NGFW deployment, IT/OT VLAN architecture, monitored OT traffic, ransomware-resistant segmentation. We work with West Midlands automotive suppliers running SCADA, PLC and MES systems.
Can you handle the NHS DSP Toolkit for a BSol trust?
Yes — we work with BSol ICB-affiliated organisations on DSP Toolkit evidence, particularly Big Question 6 (technical security) and Big Question 7 (incident response). We don't become your DPO but we provide the technical layer behind the toolkit.
Are you on the CCS framework for WMCA + BCC?
Yes — CCS G-Cloud 14, Technology Services 4 and Cyber Security Services 4. Applicable to BCC, WMCA, TfWM, the 6 West Midlands authorities, WMP, WMFS, central government departments based in Birmingham.
How do you price cyber for a 100-user Birmingham firm?
Three-tier model — Foundation (CE+ controls, MFA, email security, EDR), Resilience (above + 24×7 monitored response + quarterly review), Regulated (above + Operational Resilience mapping + incident retainer). Indicative pricing on first call.
We're a Birmingham fintech pre-FCA authorisation — can you get our posture right?
Yes — frequent engagement for West Midlands scale-ups. We work to land Cyber Essentials Plus, SOC 2 Type I, ISO 27001 and FCA-authorisation-aligned controls in the right order ahead of regulatory submission. Most reach a defensible posture in 3–6 months.
Other services we deliver in Birmingham
Need cyber that holds up to a Birmingham regulator review?
One call — direct to a cyber engineer who has done this for West Midlands firms like yours. We'll size the gap honestly and price the closure.