Consultancy Services

OCSRC offers a variety of cyber security consultancy and training services to businesses needing to map out their cyber security strategy, decide which things to prioritise, and understand how cyber security decisions interact with other business processes.

One of the advantages of being a small supplier is that we tailor the job to your needs, so get in touch and we can choose an approach that fits your business.

OCSRC can help you by reviewing what you’re already doing, pointing out the gaps and telling you how you match up to other businesses like yours.

We can offer some pragmatic advice about which things to prioritise going forwards.

Some of those services – helping you to mature your processes, train your people or select standards to work towards – we can offer direct support with. For the more technical aspects of the system we can highlight potential areas of concern, support your internal IT team as they design a security architecture, or help you to find a managed IT service provider who suits your security requirement.

Cyber security contributes the most to a business when it’s sponsored from the top.

We can offer training to your board on how to align cyber risk with other business risks, use cyber security as a way to build confidence from your customer base, or train your techies more about how to quantify cyber risk for the board.

We also offer coaching for any board member concerned that they're accountable for strategic decisions without much technical knowledge.

Through our research, we’ve developed an in-depth understanding of how business to business interactions contribute to cyber security.

We can assess the risk originating from responsibility gaps in your supply chain. We can provide pragmatic advice about the policies your customers might be receptive to, the risks that they are concerned about and options for answering requirements that you can’t support your customers with.

We’re happy to work with you under pressure, to respond to compliance questions around cyber security, data protection and disaster recovery; to update documentation; and to plan any immediate changes you need to make.

We can also help to support some of those changes if you win your bid.

Managing any crisis can change your public profile and your cyber security risk. We’re able to do a cut-down cyber risk assessment under pressure, to establish where your current circumstances might increase the risk of a cyber breach and help you develop an interim strategy.

We can’t provide technical support during cyber breaches but may be able to help you find the right expert support to resolve your problem.

We have experience writing blog articles and copywriting for cyber security and technology specialised businesses.

We can help you develop engaging evergreen content in a variety of formats or give commentary on emerging cyber security news. If you’re a company struggling to keep up with your marketing plan or looking to refresh your content, we can help.

We’ve supported specialist journalists and content editors in developing subject matter expertise.

We act as sounding board, can create thought-provoking training sessions that encourage people to think outside of the box, and will give an expert perspective as cyber news unfolds.

We’ve got experience creating everything from training courses to evergreen blog pieces.

We can develop content for social media; write articles, guides and manuals; or develop content for learning platforms. We’ll offer you a fixed price quote or can discuss a profit share agreement.

We have experience working with cyber security companies to help them get the best out of their cyber security related data.

With a background in academic research, we’re more like data scientists than tech wizards, so we can help you get the most interesting insights out of the data you already collect.

We can also help you design new projects to collect new data and answer the questions you have about your customer base.

We’re happy to support you in developing great new ideas. This can be on any scale, from providing a cyber subject matter expert for a brainstorming day, to taking on a cyber work package in a longer-term research project.

We are happy to be included in expressions of interest in bids for larger consortium projects, to lead short feasibility studies, or just start with a question and a blank sheet of paper. We have a breadth of knowledge, but tend to specialise in the socio-technical elements of a system, improving processes, or finding new information in cyber security related datasets.

We know that businesses want to develop products in increasingly agile ways … and that cyber security is much cheaper if it’s embedded in every step of the development process.

We can be a consistent support to your development team, be a remote presence in your meetings and pick up on design decisions that are likely to introduce cyber vulnerabilities. We won’t find every flaw, because innovation introduces too many unknowns, but ongoing cyber sponsorship reduces your risk.