Most regulated and high-stakes businesses end up running IT, security, and compliance as three separate relationships: an MSP for the day-to-day, a security vendor for monitoring, and a consultant for the audit trail. Each one does its job well enough on its own, but nobody owns the whole picture, and the gaps between them are exactly where a tender question, a due diligence questionnaire, or an incident gets difficult. We hold all three under one roof: managed IT, managed detection and response as standard, and the accreditation stack regulated buyers actually check. One team is accountable end to end, and the evidence is ready whenever a customer, auditor, or prime contractor asks for it.
Most regulated and high-stakes businesses inherit this structure rather than choose it: an MSP, a security vendor, and a compliance consultant, brought in at different times for different reasons. It works until something needs all three at once, a tender deadline, an audit, an incident, and then the gaps between suppliers become somebody's problem to manage. We run managed IT, security, and compliance as one service, so there is nothing to hand off between vendors.
Procurement and compliance teams in regulated sectors tend to run the same checklist before signing off a supplier: independent certification rather than self-assessment, a live security operation rather than a monitoring tool nobody watches, and a straightforward route to evidence when an auditor or a client asks for it. This is what we hold against that checklist, backed by CISSP and MCIIS-qualified security leadership in house.
Every sector below has its own supplier checklist, its own acronyms, and its own idea of what "good" looks like. Here's a summary for yours, with the detail on its own page.
Supply chain security, prime supplier questionnaires, and the data handling expected of every subcontractor in the defence and aerospace chain.
Security and resilience that stands up to funder and partner diligence, with evidence to support FCA operational resilience expectations.
Protecting CAD, CFD, and design IP for teams and suppliers across Motorsport Valley, without slowing an engineering department down.
Export-control awareness, ISO 27001, and the security expectations that come with ESA and UK Space Agency-funded work.
Energy, engineering, drones, and other high-stakes operators we support beyond the four above, all under the same accreditation stack.
Bringing in a new IT and security partner is itself a due diligence event for a regulated business. Here's how we run the switch so nothing falls into a gap.
We map your estate, your current suppliers, and where compliance already falls short of what your sector or your customers actually require.
We take on the agreed access in a controlled handover, put MDR and the accreditation-backed controls in place, and close the obvious gaps first.
Day-to-day support and monitoring run in the background, with the records, logs, and control evidence kept as we go, not reconstructed later.
Regular reviews with your team, and audit-ready reporting whenever a client, tender, or certification body asks for it.
Yes. Supplier security questionnaires, due diligence packs, and tender security sections are something we deal with regularly for defence, fintech, and engineering clients. We provide the evidence and the answers directly, backed by ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials certification body status, and NCSC assurance, rather than leaving you to interpret our certificates yourself.
Yes. We hold UKAS-accredited ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 ourselves, and as a Cyber Essentials certification body we understand exactly what an auditor or a customer's compliance team will ask for. See our governance and audit services for how we support certification and evidence requests.
On UK-hosted infrastructure, managed by our team. Where a contract or grant condition requires UK data residency, as with some defence, space, and public-sector work, we build that in from the start rather than treating it as an afterthought.
Yes. Dead Simple Computing is an NCSC Assured Service Provider under the Cyber Advisor scheme. See our NCSC assurance page for what the assessment covers and what it means for your organisation.
Yes. Many regulated clients keep their own compliance or risk function and want an IT and security partner who can produce evidence on request rather than take over the relationship entirely. We agree in writing what we own and what your team owns, the same way we do for co-managed IT clients.
Once we run your IT, extending that into managed security and audit-ready evidence is a configuration change, not a new vendor relationship. These are the pillars this page sits alongside.
Book a consultation and tell us which certifications, contracts, or due diligence questionnaires you're working against. We'll show you exactly what we hold, and what we'd still need to confirm, in writing, before anything changes. You'll speak to an engineer, not a salesperson.
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