Information security and quality management, certified to international standard.
UKAS certified / certs 00508-ISMS-001 & 00508-QMS-001
About / Dead Simple Computing
One accountable partner, run like an operations discipline.
We are a real team of engineers based in Reading, Berkshire, not a logo and a contract. We run your IT, secure it, build on it, and prove it is compliant, all under one roof and one point of accountability. Plain English, no finger pointing, and a standard we are happy to be measured against.
Verified
ISO 27001 & 9001UKAS certified
Cyber Essentials PlusCertified
Cyber EssentialsCertification body
NCSC AssuredCyber Advisor
MicrosoftCertified Expert
5.0Google rating
Assured by the National Cyber Security Centre.
Dead Simple Computing is an NCSC Assured Service Provider under the Cyber Advisor scheme, independently assessed by IASME, and our founder is one of the qualified Cyber Advisors behind it. Only a small number of firms in the UK hold this assurance, and it is on the public record, so verify us before you take our word for anything.
What the assurance covers
Founder / DSC
Daniel McClure Fisher
Founder and Principal Consultant
01 / The founder
The engineer others call when they are stuck.
Dead Simple Computing was founded in 2018 by Daniel McClure Fisher, who still works on client problems every week. His background is unusually broad, deep across infrastructure, networks, security, and software, which is exactly why one team can credibly hold the whole stack rather than handing you between specialists.
He holds CISSP, is a full member of the Chartered Institute of Information Security, is a qualified Cyber Essentials assessor and a qualified NCSC Cyber Advisor, and is a Microsoft Certified Expert. Those are personal credentials, earned and current, not borrowed from a badge on a website.
What clients remember is the incident response. When something is on fire, a breach, a critical outage, a system nobody else can recover, Daniel is the person who steadies it, finds the actual cause, and gets you back to safe. That instinct sets the standard the rest of the team is built to.
Personal credentials, current
When it really matters, you get the engineer, not a call centre script. Incident response is what we are known for.
02 / The team and the operation
A real service desk, not a single hero.
A founder sets the bar. A team meets it every day. We have deliberately built DSC around the operation, so the quality you get does not depend on one person being free.
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, to a genuine engineering standard. The same people who answer the phone understand the systems underneath, so problems get solved rather than logged and forwarded.
Managed Detection and Response is included as standard, not sold as an upgrade. Every managed client is monitored around the clock, because security you have to remember to buy is security most businesses never get.
01First lineFast, human help that fixes the problem.
02EngineeringInfrastructure and system administration.
03ArchitectureDesigned to be run and secured properly.
04MDR as standardMonitored around the clock, included.
One team, one standard. First line through to architecture sits under the same roof, so nothing falls between desks.
03 / How we work
Plain English, and the buck stops here.
How we work matters as much as what we know. These are not slogans, they are the rules we hold ourselves to.
01
Plain English
We explain things so you can make a real decision. No jargon used to hide a gap or pad a bill.
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
Independently certified, not self declared.
Our standards are assessed by external bodies and held to account. These are the company certifications behind the work, alongside our founder's personal credentials above.
The hands on, independently tested tier of the UK government scheme, not the self assessed level.
Certified
We do not just hold Cyber Essentials, we are licensed to certify it for others.
Certification bodyAssured under the NCSC's Cyber Advisor scheme for hands-on Cyber Essentials implementation. Held by only a small number of UK firms.
Cyber Advisor scheme / assessed by IASMEExpert level Microsoft credentials behind the cloud and Microsoft 365 work we deliver.
Certified ExpertBased inReading, Berkshire
UKAS certificationISO 27001 & 9001, UKAS certified, certs 00508-ISMS-001 & 00508-QMS-001
Hosting and supportUK hosted and supported
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