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United Kingdom  ·  Security operations & assurance

Know what's exposed. Fix what matters. Prove it to whoever asks.

P3K Solutions is a UK security consultancy for organisations that can't afford to guess. We run vulnerability management, threat intelligence, penetration testing and Cyber Essentials Plus readiness — delivered by senior operators who have carried the pager, not a junior bench learning on your estate.

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Typical first engagement: 2–3 weeks, fixed scope, fixed price.

DiscoverEverything you own, including the things nobody logged.
AssessScanning, testing and intel against your real attack surface.
PrioritiseWhat is actually exploitable in your environment, ranked.
RemediateFixes your infrastructure team can ship without breaking service.
AssureEvidence for the board, the auditor and the customer questionnaire.

What we do

Six services, one accountable contact

We lead the engagement and bring in vetted specialists for the deep work. You get the depth of a larger firm without being handed to a different account manager every quarter.

Vulnerability management

Continuous discovery, scanning and triage across your estate. We separate the 40 findings that matter from the 4,000 that don't, and track remediation to closure rather than emailing you a PDF.

Retained

Attack surface & infrastructure review

External and internal exposure assessment across cloud, hybrid and legacy on-premise — including the Unix, Oracle and database estates most reviews quietly skip.

Project

Penetration testing

Scoped, evidenced testing of infrastructure, applications and build configurations, run by specialist testers. We handle scoping, sanity-check the findings and own the remediation plan afterwards.

Project

Threat intelligence

Sector-relevant intelligence tied to assets you actually run — exposed credentials, supplier compromise and exploited-in-the-wild alerts that change what you patch this week.

Retained

Cyber Essentials Plus readiness

Gap assessment, remediation planning and pre-audit verification so you pass first time. We prepare you for certification and coordinate with the certifying body.

Project

Security operations support

Escalation cover, incident triage and vendor management for teams without a 24/7 function — plus the evidence pack that answers audit and customer security questionnaires.

Retained

How we work

Findings are easy. Fixed estates are the job.

Senior people, start to finish

The person who scopes your engagement is the person who runs it. Twenty-five years of production infrastructure means advice that survives contact with a change board.

We speak infrastructure

Most security reports die because nobody can implement them without an outage. Ours come from people who have run the platforms — so remediation lands as a workable change, not a demand.

Built for regulated estates

Healthcare, telecoms and financial services operate under real constraints: uptime commitments, clinical safety, change freezes. We plan around them instead of pretending they aren't there.

Who we work with

Mid-market organisations with enterprise-grade obligations

Big enough that a breach is existential, not big enough to staff a full internal security function.

Healthcare & life sciences Telecommunications Financial services Public sector suppliers Managed service providers SaaS & data platforms

Who leads it

Founder-led, with the scars to show for it

P3K Solutions is led by Paul, who has spent twenty-five years on the operational side of enterprise IT — from first-line Unix support to running infrastructure managed services across EMEA with fifty-three people reporting in, and most recently leading vulnerability management in UK telecoms.

That path matters commercially: it covers the application layer, the data platforms, the infrastructure underneath and the security programme on top. Very few security consultancies can review your Oracle estate, your data warehouse and your patching regime in the same engagement and understand how each constrains the others.

1 yr Vulnerability Management Team Lead — UK telecoms, 5 direct reports
8 yrs Infrastructure support → Head of Infrastructure Managed Services, EMEA — 53 direct and indirect reports
2 yrs ETL / data warehouse support — Informatica and Vertica, second line
1 yr Enterprise application support — Oracle, first and second line
10 yrs Healthcare application support — second line, clinical systems
1 yr Solaris support — first line

Engagement

Start with an assessment. Retain us if it earns its place.

Security assessment

from £4,500 fixed scope
  • Asset and attack-surface discovery
  • Vulnerability scan and manual validation
  • Prioritised remediation plan
  • Board-readable summary

Retained vulnerability management

from £1,500 per month
  • Continuous scanning and triage
  • Monthly prioritised remediation cycle
  • Threat intelligence tied to your assets
  • Named lead and escalation route
  • Evidence pack for audits and questionnaires

Security programme

from £4,000 per month
  • Everything in the retained service
  • Annual penetration testing
  • Cyber Essentials Plus readiness
  • Infrastructure hardening roadmap
  • Quarterly review with your leadership

Penetration testing and certification work is scoped and priced per engagement. Estate size, regulatory scope and out-of-hours requirements move these figures — we quote properly after a short scoping call.

Find out what an attacker would find first.

Tell us roughly what you run and what's worrying you. We'll come back with a scope, a price and a timescale — not a discovery process that bills by the hour.

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