Defence-Grade IT for Commercial Organisations
Cloud, technology strategy and resilience for financial services, legal and other regulated businesses, delivered by SC/DV-cleared practitioners.
The Pressures on Regulated Businesses
Regulated businesses are expected to protect sensitive data, stay operational through failure or attack, and modernise without disrupting what’s already running, all while answering to regulators, clients and their own boards. These are the challenges we help commercial organisations solve, and each one links to the Defended Solutions service built to address it.
Scalability Across Operations
As your organisation grows, your technology needs to scale with it, without compromising performance, reliability, or the pace you're moving at.
Security and Compliance
Protecting sensitive data against evolving threats while meeting sector-specific compliance obligations takes senior accountability, not just tooling. A Fractional CISO gives you that ownership without a full-time hire.
Legacy Infrastructure and Migration
Ageing systems that were never built to work alongside modern cloud environments slow everything down until they're properly migrated. Sovereign Cloud Deployment handles that migration with assurance checkpoints throughout.
Pressure to Innovate
Digital transformation means integrating new technology, from cloud to AI, without disrupting what's already running. Strategic Direction gives you an independent view of where that investment should go.
Data Recovery and Continuity
Losing access to critical data, whether through failure, error or attack, can stop operations outright. Offsite Backup keeps a secure, independent copy ready to restore from.
Cost-Conscious Decisions
Committing budget to a technology decision without costed, independent options first often means paying for the wrong thing. The Rapid Options Paper gives you those options before you commit.
Why Commercial Organisations Work With Defended Solutions
The standards we work to in Defence are the same ones we bring to every commercial engagement, giving regulated businesses a level of assurance most IT providers can’t offer.
Cleared to Defence Standards
Every engagement is led by SC/DV-cleared, UK-resident practitioners, and Defended Solutions is an approved supplier to the MOD, NATO and the US Department of Defense. Commercial clients get the same people and the same standards.
Independent Advice
We hold partner status with AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, and recommend the platform your organisation needs rather than the one that suits a supplier’s margins.
Independently Verified
ISO 27001, ISO 9001 and ISO 20000 certified, Cyber Essentials Plus and listed on G-Cloud 15, giving your procurement and compliance teams the evidence they need.
Experience Beyond Defence
Our team’s experience spans financial services, air traffic and managed service providers as well as Defence, so we understand the operational and regulatory pressures commercial organisations face.
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The Other Sectors We Serve
Defended Solutions also works with Defence and Critical National Infrastructure organisations, applying the same cleared team and assurance approach across all three sectors.
If your organisation is a commercial supplier into Defence or CNI, or sits across more than one sector, get in touch to discuss your specific requirements.
