Spear Shield

Welcome to Spear Shield

Spear Shield is an award winning cybersecurity partner headquartered in Ipswich that specialises in working with businesses across Suffolk, East Anglia and the UK, helping to identify and mitigate advanced cyber risk.


Hunting Threats and Protecting your Business with the 'Spear' and the 'Shield'.

Spear Shield's portfolio of cybersecurity solutions and services

Working with Spear Shield

Spear Shield are named as a supplier to help secure the UK Public Sector on the Crown Commercial Service's (CSS) G-Cloud 13 RM1557.13 Framework, are Cyber Essentials Plus Certified and proud members of the Suffolk Chamber of Commerce.


Our approach is to work closely with IT teams and business leaders to help identify cyber risk, understand core business drivers and challenge the conventional approaches to legacy cybersecurity strategies to enable our customers to exceed their cybersecurity goals.

Through our award winning portfolio of cybersecurity solutions and services + our quarterly hosted, 'Security Social.exe' cybersecurity networking events, we are continuing to invest in our goal to create one of the most cyber-secure client communities in the UK.

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Ipswich, Suffolk HQ Spear Shield award winning cybersecurity partner
Spear Shield based in Ipswich, Suffolk free to attend cybersecurity event, the Security Social
Attendees enjoyed a private screening of the premier of Thor: Love and Thunder at Empire Cinemas, July 2023
Spear Shield based in Ipswich, Suffolk free to attend cybersecurity event, the Security Social
Spear Shield CTO Josh Broadbent presenting a live cyber attack during an interactive spear phishing trip with the audience.
Spear Shield based in Ipswich, Suffolk free to attend cybersecurity event, the Security Social
Spear Shield based in Ipswich, Suffolk free to attend cybersecurity event, the Security Social
Scottish Security Social and the raiders of the lost data, hosted in Edinburgh, June 2023.
Spear Shield based in Ipswich, Suffolk free to attend cybersecurity event, the Security Social
Spear Shield Director Max Harper presenting at the May 2023 Suffolk Security Social. 'Guardians of the Digital Transformation'.
Spear Shield based in Ipswich, Suffolk free to attend cybersecurity event, the Security Social
Alex Smith from Spear Shield partner Egress presenting on the dangerous of inbound email threats.
Spear Shield based in Ipswich, Suffolk free to attend cybersecurity event, the Security Social
James Miller, Head of Engineering at Spear Shield Partner Sophos sharing insight into the threat landscape and how organisations can mitigate risk with 24/7 MDR.

Home of the Security Social.exe Cybersecurity Events

Do you like cool 'cyber stuff' and watching movies? Of course you do! Register your interest to attend our free to attend, quarterly run cybersecurity social events.


  • Network with other local IT professionals and business leaders
  • Gain valuable insight into the cyber threat landscape
  • Stay-on for a private screening of a new movie
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Achieving Security Outcomes Together

Mitigating Human-Activated Risk

Associate Director (Information and Security) Concertus, part of the Vertas Group.

Enhancing SecOps with 24/7 MDR

Head of I.T, Times Higher Education

IT Security validation with Penetration Testing

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Achieving Supplier Assurance with Cyber Essentials Plus

'We're delighted with our data security efforts - we're Cyber Essentials Plus certified!

This wouldn't have been possible without the help of Spear Shield, trusted local cybersecurity experts here in Ipswich. As part of our commitment to safe recruiting, secure sensitive data is crucial. This certification proves our proactive measures to prevent cyber risks."

Click here to read more in Sanctuary Group's blog post.

I.T Manager, Sanctuary Personnel

Understanding Human Risk with SAT

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Spear Shield's portfolio of cybersecurity solutions and services

Contact

The team at Spear Shield has 20+ year's experience working within both the private and public sector, have a very consultative approach and would welcome the opportunity to learn more about your organisation.

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FAQ's

Everything you need to know about Spear Shield.

Do I have to be a customer to attend a Security Social.exe event?

No you don't! Whilst we'd of course hope that one day you might be... Our Security Social events are to provide people with a platform to network. We've built a community of local based IT professionals in East Anglia and Edinburgh so far where people can come together to share cybersecurity challenges and advice for best practice with one another.

Does Spear Shield offer term-based licensing or MSP?

Here at Spear Shield, we can offer both! Consider us a hybrid MSP and VAR (Value added reseller). We are set-up with our vendors to offer our customers all options to ensure we can align our cybersecurity solutions and services with your preferred budget type. Please speak with the team for details.

Can Spear Shield supply public sector organisations through a procurement framework?

Yes! Spear Shield has routes to market including G-Cloud to be able to supply our public sector customers with our cybersecurity solutions and services. Please speak with the team for details.

Can Spear Shield work with Large Enterprise?

Yes! and we do. Our Team has many, many combined years experience working with some of the largest private sector enterprises across the country to help tackle and solve cyber risk. All of Spear Shield's cybersecurity solutions and services are scalable and enterprise-grade.

Does Spear Shield offer not-for-profit discount?

Yes, the Spear Shield Team will always ensure any eligible not-for-profit and public sector discounts are applied to any quotes for our cybersecurity solutions and services.

What are some of the top cybersecurity threats for 2023?

Here are some of the top cybersecurity threats organisations are facing in 2023. 

Social Engineering
Any network is hackable if an employee can be duped into sharing access.


Third-Party Exposure
Vendors, clients, and app integrations with poor security can provide access to an otherwise well-protected network.


Configuration Mistakes
Your cybersecurity investments are only as strong as they are configured correctly.


Human Activated Risk
User education and visibility for IT is essential to ensure those with network access and those handling sensitive data are maintaining cyber best practices.


Ransomware
Hackers are targeting back-ups and using extortion more and more to push receiving the ransom payment from their victims.


Mobile Devices
Every mobile device is a gateway to your network and sensitive business data.


Lack of resource and expertise
Human-led cyber attacks require human-led threat hunting. Unfortunately, skilled threat hunters are few and far between. 


Internet of Things (IoT)
Smart technology users may not realise that any IoT device can be hacked to obtain network access. Securing your network starts with understanding what's on it.

Is there any obligation when opting for a free cybersecurity service by Spear Shield?

No there isn't! The team will just use that as an opportunity for us to work together on a project and prove the value we can provide you as a future strategic partner.

How can I reduce my employees click-rate?

This is an area where the cybersecurity experts at Spear Shield thrive! We've worked with organisations to help reduce employee click rates from 70+% to 0% without the need for any end-user awareness training.

Online training content doesn't work.


Classroom based training gets forgotten.


Static email banners get ignored.


Speak with the team about real-time end-user awareness training to help mitigate the risk of a phishing attack in your organisation.

Why Spear Shield for Managed Detection Response Services?

The team at Spear Shield are an Award Winning Sophos Partner and have a combined 20+ years experience working with Sophos. Our relationship and technical investment, enables Spear Shield to offer our customers the most competitive commercials available. Sophos is one of the largest providers of MDR across the globe with over 17,000 + organisations using the MDR service and is what powers the Spear Shield 24/7 Managed Detection Response Service.

Why Spear Shield for a Managed Phishing Simulation Service?

Spear Shield's Managed Phishing Simulation Service provides our customers with managed phishing simulations and security awareness training for their users delivered as a fully managed services. Customers benefit from the tailored spear phishing examples that the Spear Shield team can tailor to your organisation and also base our templates on real-world phish that we see that are able to evade detection from 3rd party secure email gateways and Microsoft 365. After each campaign, customers benefit from receiving an executive ready report with all of the information and data required to be able to confidently articulate risk back to the business.

What's included in Spear Shield's Managed Phishing Simulation Service reports?

The cybersecurity experts at Spear Shield will provide you with executive ready reporting with all of the intelligence you require to provide cyber-assurance to your organisation.

Includes:
- Engagement Overview
- % Click Rate
- No. of Credentials Harvested
- Individual Campaign Performance
- Device Breakdown
- Caught-User Breakdown
- User Behaviours Insights

- Industry Benchmarking
- Consultative Recommendations

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01473 948980

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