AMVIA Cybersecurity: Your Business's First Line of Defence Against Modern Threats
AMVIA's cybersecurity solutions protect UK businesses from the full range of modern threats — from phishing and ransomware to identity attacks and supply chain compromises. This page explains what our managed security service includes, how it is delivered and what it means in practice for businesses that want protection without managing a security programme in-house.
Matt Cannon
Managing Director
The Challenge Every UK SME Faces
The cyber threat landscape in 2025 presents UK businesses with a difficult equation: the threats are increasingly sophisticated, targeted and capable of causing existential damage — but the resources most SMEs can dedicate to cybersecurity are limited. 39% of UK businesses identified a cyber attack in 2024. The average UK data breach cost reached £3.4 million. Yet the majority of affected businesses did not have the security capability to detect or contain the attack before damage occurred.
The gap is not a failure of intent — most business owners understand that cybersecurity matters. It is a gap of expertise and resource. Running a full security operation requires specialist knowledge, 24/7 availability and investment in tooling that most SMEs cannot justify in-house. AMVIA's managed cybersecurity service is built to close that gap.
What AMVIA's Cybersecurity Service Covers
Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
AMVIA's MDR service provides 24/7 monitoring of your environment — endpoints, email, cloud identity and network — by trained security analysts supported by AI-enhanced detection technology. When threats are identified, AMVIA's analysts investigate and respond directly: isolating endpoints, blocking accounts, removing malicious processes and providing remediation guidance.
The MDR service operates with a 15-minute response target for critical incidents. For ransomware, which can encrypt a network in under 30 minutes, this speed of response is the difference between a contained incident and a catastrophic one.
Email Security
Email is the most common attack vector in UK cyber incidents. AMVIA's email security service covers:
- Email authentication deployment and management (SPF, DKIM, DMARC with reject policy)
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365 configuration and monitoring, including Safe Links and Safe Attachments
- AI-based impersonation and phishing detection
- Outbound email encryption for sensitive communications
- Phishing simulation and staff training
Endpoint Protection
AMVIA deploys and manages enterprise-grade endpoint detection and response (EDR) across all devices in your environment. This includes workstations, servers and cloud workloads. EDR provides behavioural threat detection, automated containment and centralised management — replacing consumer antivirus with a managed security capability monitored by AMVIA's SOC.
Microsoft 365 Security
For businesses using Microsoft 365, AMVIA provides security hardening and ongoing management of the full Microsoft security stack: Conditional Access policies, Intune device compliance, Defender for Business, Purview Data Loss Prevention, Microsoft Secure Score improvement and Entra ID configuration. This ensures that Microsoft 365's substantial security capabilities are correctly configured rather than left at potentially inadequate default settings.
Cyber Essentials Certification
AMVIA assists UK businesses through the Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certification process — preparing the technical environment, completing the self-assessment questionnaire and coordinating independent verification for Plus certification. CE certification is mandatory for government contract suppliers and increasingly required by private sector clients and cyber insurance underwriters.
Compliance Support
AMVIA's cybersecurity service is aligned to UK GDPR Article 32, Cyber Essentials, the NCSC's 10 Steps to Cyber Security, and the anticipated requirements of the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill. For clients in regulated sectors — legal, financial services, healthcare — AMVIA applies sector-specific knowledge to ensure controls meet the relevant regulatory expectations.
How AMVIA's Integrated Approach Differs
A common problem with buying cybersecurity as a separate service from multiple vendors is the resulting fragmentation: one vendor for email security, another for endpoint protection, a third for SIEM, each with separate billing, separate support contacts and no shared context about your environment.
AMVIA manages IT infrastructure, Microsoft 365, connectivity and cybersecurity for its clients as an integrated service. When AMVIA's security team detects a threat, they have full context about the client's environment, systems and normal operating patterns — because they manage those systems day to day. This context reduces false positive rates, speeds investigation and enables more accurate risk assessment.
Who AMVIA's Cybersecurity Service Is For
AMVIA's managed cybersecurity is designed for UK businesses from 10 to 500 users that:
- Do not have a dedicated in-house IT security team
- Handle personal data, financial information or commercially sensitive data
- Operate in or supply regulated sectors
- Have experienced a security incident and want to prevent recurrence
- Need to demonstrate cybersecurity capability to clients, insurers or regulatory bodies
Pricing is per-user, per-month, with service tiers ranging from foundational Microsoft 365 security and endpoint protection to full MDR with 24/7 SOC coverage. Contact AMVIA for a tailored assessment and proposal — we start with understanding your environment and risk profile before recommending a service tier.
Find Out What AMVIA Can Do for Your Business
A free security gap assessment gives you a clear picture of your current protection level and what AMVIA would recommend. No obligation, no sales pressure — just an honest assessment.
Frequently Asked Questions
Not necessarily. AMVIA's cybersecurity services can be deployed alongside existing IT support arrangements in many cases. However, the integrated model — where AMVIA manages both IT infrastructure and cybersecurity — provides better context for threat detection and faster response. Contact us to discuss your specific situation and we can advise on the options.
For a standard SME environment (25–100 users, Microsoft 365, managed switches), AMVIA typically completes the initial deployment within 2–4 weeks: endpoint agent deployment, Microsoft 365 security hardening, email authentication configuration and onboarding to the SOC monitoring platform. The MDR service begins providing 24/7 coverage as devices are onboarded.
AMVIA's MDR service operates 24/7. Out-of-hours incidents are detected and responded to by on-call security analysts following the same process as business hours incidents. For critical severity incidents, AMVIA will contact the client's designated emergency contact. Response time SLAs — 15 minutes for critical, 1 hour for high severity — apply at all times.
Yes. Cyber insurance underwriters are increasingly requiring evidence of specific security controls — MFA, endpoint protection, patch management, backups, incident response plans — as conditions of cover. AMVIA's managed cybersecurity service implements and documents these controls, supporting the evidence requirements for cyber insurance applications and renewals. Some clients have seen premium reductions after implementing AMVIA's security controls. <strong>Malware and ransomware alone accounted for 51% of all UK cyber insurance claims in 2024</strong> — up from 32% of claims in 2023. <em>(Insurance Journal)</em>
AMVIA's cybersecurity service is priced per user per month, with tiers based on the level of service included. Indicative pricing for a 25-user business starts from around £8–£15 per user per month for endpoint protection and Microsoft 365 security, rising to £18–£25 per user per month for full MDR with 24/7 SOC coverage. Contact AMVIA for a tailored proposal based on your specific environment and requirements. <strong>Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) suffered a ransomware attack in late 2025</strong> that halted production at all UK factories for nearly a month. Estimated production losses exceeded £50 million per week (potential total: £2.2 billion if prolonged). Around 104,000 UK supply chain jobs were placed at risk. <em>(Infosecurity Magazine)</em>
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