Security that is switched on, and watched.
Black Sheep Cyber is the security side of Black Sheep Support. We make sure you have the right Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace licences, switch on the security you are paying for, hold every device to a baseline, and make sure someone is watching the alerts, in office hours or around the clock.
Security tools raise alerts. Somebody has to read them.
Most small businesses already pay for good security and never switch half of it on. We configure it properly, prove it works, and keep watching.
Microsoft 365 tenant hardening
Most tenants are licensed for far more security than they use. We switch it on and set it the way Microsoft's own baselines recommend.
- Conditional Access and MFA everywhere
- Legacy authentication blocked, admin roles reviewed
- Defender for Office 365, SPF, DKIM and DMARC
- Secure Score tracked and improved
Intune security baselines
Every laptop and phone held to the same standard, checked continuously, without an engineer touching it.
- Compliance policies and security baselines
- BitLocker and Windows LAPS
- Update rings and patching
- Autopilot for new and migrated devices
Microsoft Defender Monitoring
Our engineers watch the alerts Defender and Microsoft 365 raise for your tenant, triage the noise and escalate the real ones to your nominated contacts.
- Defender for Business or the Defender Suite, configured
- Alerts investigated, not just forwarded
- Escalation procedure agreed before go-live
- £16 per user per month, excluding VAT
24/7 SOC with Barracuda XDR
For cover overnight and at weekends, detection and investigation run through Barracuda XDR and Barracuda's security operations centre, which we resell and coordinate.
- Analysts watching around the clock
- Pre-authorised containment, such as isolating a device
- A phone call to your contacts at any hour
- Our engineers pick up recovery
Google Workspace, secured
Not every business runs on Microsoft. We secure Google Workspace too: the right Workspace licence, the admin settings that matter, and Barracuda Email Protection from the same platform behind our 24/7 SOC.
- 2-Step Verification enforced and admin access reviewed
- Phishing, impersonation and business email compromise caught
- Compromised accounts spotted and malicious mail pulled back
- Domain fraud protection and DMARC reporting
- Google Workspace backed up outside Google
Cyber Essentials and ISO 27001
Evidence for insurers, tenders and regulators. We fix the settings first, then answer the questions honestly.
- Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus, fixed price
- Technical support through ISO 27001 and ISO 22301
- Renewals diarised so nothing lapses mid-tender
Fractional vCISO
Security leadership without a full-time hire: a risk view the board can read, a roadmap with costs, and someone to answer the supplier questionnaires.
- Cyber risk assessment and roadmap
- Insurance and compliance readiness
- Policies, incident plans and board reporting
Backup that survives an attack
When prevention fails, recovery is what matters. Backups kept outside Microsoft and Google, immutable, and restored on test every quarter.
- Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace backup
- Immutable offsite copies
- Recovery objectives agreed per system
Who is watching at 2am on a Wednesday?
Two levels of cover, both escalating to your nominated contacts under a procedure agreed before go-live. Nothing happens to your systems that you did not sign off.
Defender Monitoring
Our own engineers monitor Microsoft Defender and Microsoft 365 alerts for your tenant in the hours stated on your quotation, investigate the real ones and call you.
£16 per user per month, excluding VAT
24/7 SOC, Barracuda XDR
Barracuda's security operations centre watches around the clock through Barracuda XDR, takes pre-authorised containment action and phones your contact. We coordinate it and pick up recovery.
Priced per user per month, on request
Review, harden, monitor, prove.
Review
A free, read-only look at your Microsoft 365, Google Workspace or mail platform: licences, settings and email security, with the gaps explained in plain English.
Harden
The gaps closed: tenant settings, Intune baselines, email authentication, backup.
Monitor
Defender Monitoring in office hours, or the Barracuda XDR SOC around the clock.
Prove
Cyber Essentials, help with your ISO 27001 and reports you can hand to an insurer or a customer.
Start with a free check
Free IT Health Check
A short online check that benchmarks your security and business risk and tells you where you stand. Run it yourself, or book one of our engineers to go through it with you.
Free security review
A read-only review of Microsoft 365, Google Workspace or whatever mail platform you use. We check you have the right licences and that the security in them is switched on, then explain your risks and gaps in plain English, in writing. Free.
Domain and email security audit
Check any domain's SPF, DKIM, DMARC, certificates and blocklists in under a minute, with a plain-English score.
Scan a domainSecurity work we have done
A 25-person car dealership in Horsham
Phished and impersonated on an old copy of Office, SMTP mail and local Windows logins. Full migration to Microsoft 365 Business Premium with the Defender Suite and our Defender monitoring, PCs joined to Entra ID with no local admin, patched by RMM, and Microsoft 365 backed up.
Read the case studyA 90-person recruitment consultancy in Brighton
The previous supplier had done no patch management: 12,000 open vulnerabilities, local admin logins, no antivirus and no backups. Moved to Microsoft 365 Business Premium with the Defender Suite, Entra ID and Autopilot, with RMM tooling to catch up on the patching. Cyber Essentials passed.
Read the case studyAn 85-person renewables company in London
The IT director left and nobody was running IT. An Apple estate on Jamf, Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 side by side, no backups and no patch management. We took over, sorted the licensing, removed local admin, got patching and antivirus working, supported the company through ISO 27001 and ISO 22301, and stayed on a retainer for two more years.
Read the case studyWe hold ourselves to the same standard
Black Sheep Support holds Cyber Essentials and is a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Modern Work, and we take clients through the same standards we ask of ourselves.
All accreditationsFind out where you
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A free review, written findings, and an honest view of what is worth fixing first. No obligation and no scare stories.
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