Halkyn Consulting is an independent security consultancy providing pragmatic, cost-effective security and risk management services to businesses, public sector organisations and charities. If you have found this blog useful, this page summarises the ways we can help you directly. Full details of every service are on our main services page.
When You Are Under Attack
Emergency Incident Response — urgent, confidential help during an active cyber attack. We contain the threat, investigate what happened and support your recovery.
Digital Forensics & Investigation — expert acquisition, analysis and reporting for security incidents, legal investigations or internal disputes, with court-ready documentation where required.
Building Readiness
Incident Response Retainer — experienced responders on call before you need them, with priority access and flexible use of hours for guidance, exercises or threat hunting.
IR Playbook Creation — custom incident response playbooks that clarify roles, escalation paths and technical procedures, so your team responds faster with less confusion.
Tabletop Exercises — realistic, guided incident simulations tailored to your organisation’s size, maturity and sector, rehearsing roles and uncovering process gaps.
Active Threat Hunting — proactive searches for evidence of compromise across systems, networks and logs, detecting stealthy attacker activity before damage occurs.
Assessing and Improving Your Defences
SOC Maturity Assessments — a clear evaluation of your security operations centre’s people, process and technology, with a practical roadmap for improvement.
Security Architecture & Hardening Reviews — design and configuration reviews of networks, cloud services, endpoints and applications, focused on reducing attack surface and improving resilience.
Physical Security Integration Support — joining up physical and cyber security so monitoring, processes and risk decisions reflect the full range of threats to assets, infrastructure and personnel.
Advisory and People
vCISO Advisory — experienced security leadership, strategy, compliance guidance and executive engagement without the overhead of a full-time CISO.
Security Policy & Documentation Support — tailored, practical, jargon-free policies and documentation for ISO 27001, client due diligence or operational clarity.
Security Awareness Workshops — engaging, practical sessions for technical teams, managers or frontline staff, covering real attack techniques and what to do when something goes wrong.
Get in Touch
Not sure which service fits? We tailor our work to your needs. Contact the security team for a no-obligation conversation.