Information security and quality management, certified to international standard.
Certified by a UKAS-accredited certification body / certs 00508-ISMS-001 & 00508-QMS-001
About / Dead Simple Computing
About Dead Simple Computing
Dead Simple Computing is an IT and cyber security firm based in Reading, Berkshire. One team runs your IT, secures it, builds on it, and keeps the evidence behind it, under one point of accountability. The certifications are listed further down this page, and each can be checked with the body that issued it.
Verified
ISO 27001 & 9001Certified by a UKAS-accredited certification body
Cyber EssentialsCertification body
Cyber Essentials PlusCertified
NCSC AssuredCyber Advisor
MicrosoftCertified Expert
Assured by the National Cyber Security Centre.
Dead Simple Computing is an NCSC Assured Service Provider under the Cyber Advisor scheme, assessed independently by IASME, the NCSC's delivery partner, and Daniel McClure Fisher is a qualified Cyber Advisor. The listing is on the public record, so you can check it yourself.
What the assurance covers
Founder / DSC
Daniel McClure Fisher
Founder and Principal Consultant
01 / Daniel McClure Fisher
Daniel McClure Fisher
Dead Simple Computing was founded in 2018 by Daniel McClure Fisher, who still works on client problems himself. He works across infrastructure, networks, security, and software, which is why the same team can hold the whole stack rather than handing you between specialists.
He holds CISSP, is a Full Member of the Chartered Institute of Information Security (MCIIS), is a qualified Cyber Essentials assessor, is a qualified Cyber Advisor under the NCSC Cyber Advisor scheme, and is a Microsoft Certified Expert. Those are his own credentials, held personally rather than by the company.
Incident response is part of the work he does. When there is a breach or a critical outage, Daniel takes the technical lead: contain it, establish the cause, get the systems back to a safe state, and write up what changed. That is the standard the rest of the service is run to.
Personal credentials, held by Daniel McClure Fisher
During an incident, you speak to the engineer doing the work.
02 / The team and the operation
Who does the work?
DSC is built around the operation rather than around one person. First-line support, engineering, architecture and monitoring sit in the same place and under the same standard, so work does not stall at a handover.
Our service desk handles the full range, from a first-line question on a Monday morning through to architecture decisions and day-to-day system administration. The same people who answer the phone understand the systems underneath, so a problem is solved rather than logged and passed on.
Managed Detection and Response is included as standard, not sold as an upgrade. Every managed client is monitored around the clock.
01First lineQuestions answered and faults fixed.
02EngineeringInfrastructure and system administration.
03ArchitectureDesigned to be run and secured, not just deployed.
04MDR as standardMonitored around the clock, included.
One team. First line through to architecture sits in the same place, under the same standard.
03 / How we work
How do we work?
Four rules we hold ourselves to, on every engagement.
01
Explaining the work
We set out the options, what each one costs and what it involves, so the decision is yours to make.
02
Accountability
One partner owns the outcome. When something goes wrong, you have one number to call and one team to fix it.
03
Security built in
Security and governance are designed in from the start, not bolted on after an audit or an incident.
04
No finger pointing
Because we hold the whole stack, there is no blame passed between vendors. The problem is ours to resolve.
04 / Company certifications
Company certifications
Each certification below is assessed and issued by an external body. Daniel McClure Fisher's personal credentials are listed above.
Adds a technical audit to Cyber Essentials, in which an assessor tests a sample of your devices and accounts.
Certified
We are an appointed Cyber Essentials certification body, licensed to certify other organisations.
Certification bodyAssured under the NCSC's Cyber Advisor scheme. It focuses on the implementation of the technical controls outlined in Cyber Essentials, and is tailored towards small and medium sized organisations. Listed in IASME's public directory of assured providers.
Cyber Advisor scheme / assessed by IASMEMicrosoft credentials at expert level, held by Daniel McClure Fisher, behind the cloud and Microsoft 365 work we do.
Personal credential, held by Daniel McClure FisherBased inReading, Berkshire
ISO certificationISO 27001 & 9001, certified by a UKAS-accredited certification body, certs 00508-ISMS-001 & 00508-QMS-001
Hosting and supportUK-based team, UK-hosted options
Talk to the team.
You will speak to the people who run, secure and build the systems.