Custodian360

The speed of response to a cyber breach can significantly impact your business. We provide human-led threat detection and response, ensuring rapid action when it matters most. Let us extend your team's security capabilities.

02:14 AM. Every shared drive encrypted. 02:16 an alert lands in a UK SOC. 02:41 an analyst has the endpoint contained - while an in-house team is still working out who to call. That gap decides whether it is a bad morning or a lost quarter. Swipe through the first 12 hours of a ransomware attack. How fast could your team respond at 2am? We run a 24/7 UK SOC for SMEs and get a human on your incident in under 60 minutes.

Most Microsoft 365 compromises don't announce themselves. They hide in the quiet details: 3am sign-ins from countries you don't work in, approval prompts you never triggered, a retired mailbox that suddenly wakes up. Our analysts see all five regularly. We run a UK-based SOC that watches endpoints, identity and network around the clock, and we respond with real humans in under 60 minutes. How many have you already spotted?

Friday 5pm. The resignation email lands. And suddenly it hits you - with no in-house security team, who's watching the network tonight? It's a scenario too many UK SMEs know all too well. Between headcount gaps and stretched IT teams, coverage often falls through the cracks when it matters most.

The answer doesn't have to be hiring a whole SOC. A 24/7 human-led monitoring team can be your backstop, watching for threats and responding within minutes - on a pay-as-you-grow model.

It's 2am. An alert fires and your team is asleep. What happens next? For SMEs without an in-house SOC, too often nothing - until it's too late. Our UK-based SOC spots the suspicious activity within minutes, a real analyst works out what it means for your business, and we help contain and clean it up before you're awake. Enterprise-grade security, delivered as a service that grows with you - with a response you can rely on in under 60 minutes. Swipe to see how it plays out.

Hot take: your IT provider probably isn't watching at 2am. And that's exactly when most attacks happen.

Reactive, business-hours support can't stop a breach that lands at 3am. A human-led SOC can - responding in under 60 minutes, 24/7, without the cost of building your own security team.

So here's the debate for UK SMEs: if you're 50-250 people, is round-the-clock cover worth it? Or is daytime support enough for your size?

Most UK SMEs assume Microsoft 365 is secure the day it's switched on. It isn't - and three common assumptions are leaving businesses exposed. We're breaking down the myths and how a human-led security team actually helps.

Swipe through.

Out-of-the-box isn't secure, strong passwords aren't a shield, and being small doesn't keep you off the radar. That's where round-the-clock UK monitoring comes in. Follow along for straight-talking security for UK SMEs.

Before ransomware hits, answer these five questions honestly.

If you can't tick all five, your team isn't as ready as you'd like to think - and that's exactly the gap a 24/7 human-led SOC is built to close.

Custodian360 monitors, investigates and responds around the clock, with real analysts on the other end of the phone. UK-based, with response in as little as 60 minutes.

Save this checklist, send it to a colleague, and tell us in the comments: how many did you manage?

Scenario challenge: ransomware is spreading across your network. You've got 15 minutes to act - what do you do first? Isolate everything and call in support, or hold and watch for more intel? No wrong answer, but your move says a lot about your defence in depth. Drop your move in the comments. And if you'd rather not work it out cold, that's exactly why our UK SOC responds in under 60 minutes.