Cyber security, AI and business continuity training for Havant and Hayling Island businesses. Inside our core area, travel included, with Cyber Essentials support for firms supplying larger customers.
Getting to you: About 35 minutes from Bognor Regis, over the Hampshire border. Delivered onsite in Havant or live online. Onsite travel is included in the price.
Havant is where the character of the coast changes. Alongside the town centre and Hayling Island there are business parks, industrial units, workshops and distribution operations, a good number of which supply into much larger organisations around the Solent.
That supply relationship is the thing that makes Havant different from the villages either side of it. When your customer is a large manufacturer, a public body or a prime contractor, their security requirements arrive on your desk whether or not you have anybody to deal with them.
Cyber Essentials comes up more often in Havant than almost anywhere else we work, and it is usually not the business owner who decided to care about it. It arrives in a contract renewal or a supplier questionnaire from a customer who has been told to check their own supply chain. Public sector and defence-related contracts in particular push those requirements down to the suppliers, and "we are only small" is not an answer that gets accepted.
The good news is that the five controls are basic on purpose, and most firms already do three of them without knowing it. The work is usually scope, which is deciding exactly which devices and cloud services are in, and then two or three specific fixes. It is a fortnight, not a project.
The other thing worth naming is the mix of office and workshop. Training written for an office assumes everybody has a desk, an email address and a laptop. That is not true of a workshop or a warehouse, where staff may share a terminal and rarely read email. Sessions here get built around that rather than pretending it is not the case.
Hayling Island, Bedhampton, Denvilles, Langstone, Leigh Park, Waterlooville, Purbrook, Rowlands Castle.
With the free readiness checklist on this site, which covers scope and all five controls in thirty plain-English questions. Work through it and you will know whether you are looking at an afternoon or a fortnight. If you would rather not do it alone, our Cyber Essentials readiness service does the gap review, the fixes and the draft answers. The certificate itself is issued by an IASME-licensed certification body, never by us.
Yes, and it is worth saying up front so we can build the session for it. Shop floor sessions are shorter, use examples from the floor rather than from an office, and cover the things that genuinely apply: shared terminals, personal phones, USB sticks, and who to tell when something looks wrong. The portal modules work on a phone, so nobody needs a company laptop to complete them.