Stop Cyber Threats Before They Cost You Thousands

This is the hub for everything AMVIA does in security. You can start with full-stack managed cybersecurity, or read on and move down into each individual service — the table below links to every layer for a UK business with 10–500 staff.

What is managed cybersecurity?

Managed cybersecurity — often sold as a managed security service (MSSP) — means a specialist provider takes ownership of monitoring, detecting and responding to threats across your environment, around the clock, from a dedicated SOC. Instead of your own team chasing alerts, the provider runs the tooling, the analysts and the response process as one service.

For a UK SME, that typically combines:

• Endpoint security — behavioural detection (EDR) on every laptop, desktop and server, not just signature antivirus.
• Email security — anti-phishing, DMARC/DKIM/SPF and business email compromise protection.
• Network security — firewall management and traffic monitoring at the perimeter.
• Identity security — multi-factor authentication and monitoring for compromised credentials.
• SOC monitoring — analysts who correlate every alert and act on the real ones 24/7.
• Compliance support — controls that support UK GDPR and sector regulations.

AMVIA delivers all of this as one accountable service. You can take it as a full stack or build up from the controls that close your biggest gaps first.

Why do UK SMEs need managed cybersecurity?

UK SMEs need managed cybersecurity because attacks are automated and indiscriminate — size is no defence. According to the UK Government's Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025, 43% of UK businesses reported a breach or attack in the past year, with an average cost of £3,550 for the most disruptive breach.

Threat actors scan millions of IP addresses at once, so a 12-person firm is hit by the same commodity attacks as a 500-person one. The difference is that smaller teams rarely have analysts watching at 3am on a Saturday — exactly when ransomware operators strike.

• 43% of UK businesses experienced a cyber breach or attack in 2025 (Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025, gov.uk).
• £3,550 average cost of the most disruptive breach in 2025 (Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025, gov.uk).
• 19,000 UK businesses hit by ransomware in 2025.
• Email is the entry point in around 85% of breaches (Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025, gov.uk).

The NCSC's small business guidance is clear that monitoring and a tested response plan matter as much as prevention. That is the gap a managed SOC fills.

What does AMVIA's managed cybersecurity include?

AMVIA's managed cybersecurity covers every layer of your posture — endpoints, email, network, identity and cloud — monitored from a UK Security Operations Centre. It is a layered service: close your biggest gaps first, then add capability as your risk profile grows.

Every layer runs on the same stack: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for behavioural detection, and the Barracuda email and network security suite for the perimeter. There is no white-labelled third-party SOC behind it — AMVIA's own analysts watch your environment.

Managed SOC vs DIY security: why in-house isn't enough

The default SME approach — antivirus, a firewall, and hope — fails for three concrete reasons. Signature antivirus misses modern threats, alerts without analysts go unactioned, and attacks land out of hours. A managed SOC closes all three by pairing behavioural tooling with people who respond.

A single in-house analyst costs £45,000–£65,000 per year (typical UK 2026 range) and still cannot provide 24/7 cover alone. AMVIA delivers equivalent capability at materially lower cost by spreading a UK SOC across 1,200+ UK businesses.

How much does managed cybersecurity cost?

Managed cybersecurity for UK SMEs is priced per user, typically £5–£65 per user per month depending on scope. Basic endpoint plus email security sits at the lower end; a full stack with EDR, SOC monitoring, vulnerability management and incident response sits at the top.

AMVIA's managed cybersecurity starts from £5 per user per month — less than a single day of incident response from a specialist firm. The figure within that range depends on how many layers you turn on and how many users you cover.

How AMVIA delivers managed cybersecurity

AMVIA runs a Security Operations Centre from Sheffield, monitoring 1,200+ UK businesses on enterprise-grade tooling delivered at SME pricing. Onboarding starts with a security assessment, then a one-to-two-week baselining period to tune alert thresholds before live monitoring begins.

• Onboarding — assess current gaps in endpoint, email, patching and access; deploy monitoring agents; baseline for 1–2 weeks.
• Ongoing monitoring — 24/7 correlation of alerts from endpoint, email, network and cloud, with analyst-led response and a monthly report.
• Co-managed options — for businesses with 50–200 staff that have IT resource but no security specialism, AMVIA provides the SOC and tooling while your team keeps day-to-day IT.

AMVIA holds Cyber Essentials Plus and is a Microsoft Solutions Partner, so the engineers configuring Defender and Conditional Access are certified to do it. See Microsoft's security guidance for the platform underneath.