A young space company moves fast: an ESA contract to meet, a UK Space Agency grant to report against, a Series A round to close, and a small in house team running real time operations on expensive hardware. Each carries its own security expectation, and they all land on the same few people.
We run, secure, build, and prove the technology behind the work, so an ISO 27001 clause or a grant condition has an answer ready rather than slowing a launch. UK-based, certified to ISO 27001 by a UKAS-accredited body, an appointed Cyber Essentials certification body, twenty minutes from Harwell.
In space tech the security pressure is not an abstract policy. It arrives as a clause in an ESA contract, a cyber hygiene condition on a grant, an investor diligence checklist in a Series A, and export control sitting over a stack full of US technology.
For a company of ten to a hundred people with one or two holding IT and security together, that is a lot. We build the posture and the evidence without pulling your engineers off the mission.
Our base is in Reading, twenty minutes from the Harwell campus and the cluster around the UK Space Agency, the European Space Agency's UK presence, and RAL Space, so when a ground station rig needs a hands on look, or a launch window is close, we can be on site rather than in a ticket queue. The other clusters we support securely and remotely, the way modern IT already works.
A small in house team runs real time operations on costly hardware and keeps the office working, with nothing left for security. Things get missed through load, not carelessness. We take that weight off them.
Payload designs, mission data, control links, and export controlled components are what a capable adversary, or a partner with more access than they need, could reach. The work has to be defended, segmented, recoverable, and evidenced as such.
UK-based support and UK-hosted infrastructure for the systems we manage, from a team that knows simulation, image processing, and mission operations. We run the cloud the heavy compute leans on, with Managed Detection and Response (MDR) included as standard.
We are an appointed Cyber Essentials certification body, so we know what a grant or contract naming the standard is asking for; we prepare you for it, and formal assessment is scoped separately. Email and endpoint security harden the systems an attacker reaches for first.
Custom software, integration, and applied AI for the tooling around your mission systems, with UK-hosted deployment and an audit trail behind it, built by the team that also runs and secures it.
We are certified to ISO 27001 by a UKAS-accredited certification body, and we take growing companies through the same standard: the policies, controls, and audit trail an ESA assessor or investor expects, produced as you go rather than before a review.
US technology components are everywhere in a modern space stack, so ITAR, EAR, and UK export controls are normal compliance rather than an edge case. We build and run the access controls that keep restricted material away from unauthorised foreign access. The legal interpretation stays with your export control advisers; the technology that enforces it is ours.
With a clear read of what the contract requires, which is often ISO 27001 with Cyber Essentials Plus as a practical first step. We are certified to ISO 27001 by a UKAS-accredited certification body and an appointed Cyber Essentials certification body, so we can take you from a standing start to ready for assessment on the contract's timeline. Preparation and formal assessment are distinct pieces of work.
Yes. Grant terms in this sector increasingly carry cyber hygiene and reporting conditions, and what they need depends on the wording, which we will read with you. Usually Cyber Essentials or Cyber Essentials Plus, with the controls and reporting in place behind it, satisfies the condition, and we keep producing the evidence the funder expects.
Series A and later rounds routinely surface cyber and IT governance as a diligence item, and the time to get it in order is before the data room opens. We assess where you stand, close the obvious gaps, and assemble the policies, controls, and evidence an investor will ask for, so the question is answered with a document. It is the same groundwork that supports ISO 27001.
Our base is in Reading, around twenty minutes from the Harwell campus, so when a ground station rig or a test setup needs a hands on look, or a deadline is close and you want someone on site, that is straightforward. For space companies elsewhere in the UK we work securely and remotely, with on-site visits where they help.
We build and run the IT environment designed to keep restricted material away from unauthorised foreign access, with a UK-based team, UK-hosted infrastructure for the systems we manage, and need to know access controls. ITAR, EAR, and UK export control compliance is a legal and procedural matter, so we work alongside your export control advisers rather than replacing them.
Send us the clause in your contract, the conditions on your grant, or your investors' diligence list. We will tell you where you stand and what it takes to close the gap.
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