Cyber security, AI and business continuity training for Horsham businesses. Practical help for small firms facing corporate-grade security questionnaires without corporate-grade resources.
Getting to you: About an hour north of Bognor Regis. Delivered onsite in Horsham or live online. Onsite travel is agreed in advance and shown separately on the quote.
Horsham has a more corporate business base than a market town of its size would suggest. Professional services, finance and insurance, consultancies and a good number of offices belonging to much larger organisations, plus the small firms that grew up supplying and advising them.
That proximity is the defining feature. Small businesses in Horsham get asked corporate questions. Vendor security assessments, data processing agreements, evidence of staff training, an actual continuity plan. Those requests are written for a company with a compliance team, and they land on someone who also does the invoicing.
The recurring problem is a mismatch of scale. A twelve page vendor security questionnaire assumes you have documented policies, a named security owner, tested backups and an incident response plan. You may well do most of the underlying things properly and simply have nothing written down, which reads to the client as a fail. Writing it down honestly, rather than inventing controls you do not have, is usually a couple of days of work and it is reusable forever.
Hybrid and commuting patterns add the second one. Horsham has a lot of people working part of the week from home, on home broadband, sometimes on personal devices, occasionally on a train. That is entirely workable, but it needs deciding rather than drifting into, and it is the area where Cyber Essentials scope most often trips businesses up.
Third, and least popular: continuity. A firm advising corporate clients is expected to have a plan for the week it cannot work, and increasingly to show it. Most have never written one. A half day and a handful of pages closes that, and the exercise usually finds something worth knowing.
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That is one of the more common reasons people ring. We go through it with you, separate the questions where you genuinely do the thing but have not written it down from the ones where there is a real gap, and deal with each accordingly. The important rule is that we will not help you word around something that is not true. If a control is missing, the answer is to put it in place or say so.
Horsham is outside our core area, so onsite travel is agreed in advance and shown separately on the quote. It is never added afterwards. Live online sessions carry no travel, and for an office-based team they lose nothing.