Penetration Testing Consultancy and Services
Penetration testing identifies real-world security weaknesses before they are exploited. Trusted by the NHS, M8 Solutions delivers offensive CREST-accredited penetration testing that validates controls, strengthens resilience, and supports compliance. We provide safe, NHS-aware testing with minimal disruption, delivering clear, actionable insight that enables confident technical remediation and assured board-level decision-making.
Features
- Bespoke Testing (NHS Popular Choice)
- Stolen Laptop Assessment
- Microsoft 365 Security Testing
- External Attack Surface Assessment
- Human Attack Simulation
- Multi Year Bespoke Testing Cycles
Benefits
- CREST-accredited assurance trusted by NHS, regulators, and insurers
- Deep understanding of NHS operational realities, minimising service disruption
- Plain-English reporting suitable for boards, auditors, and technical teams
- Actionable remediation guidance, not just vulnerability lists
- Tailored scopes aligned to NHS risk profiles, priorities, and budgets
- Strong CAF, DSPT, and supply-chain assurance support
- Safe testing in live clinical environments, delivered by UK specialists
- Flexible testing models, including focused assessments and multi-year strategies
- Human-centric and technical testing, covering people, process, and technology
- A proven, trusted NHS partner, acting as a team extension
Pricing
- Education pricing available
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 15
Service ID
3 0 7 0 3 4 9 4 4 9 9 3 3 9 6
Contact
M8 SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Tracy Scriven
Telephone: 07925051060
Email: tracy@m8solutions.co.uk
About your service
- Service categories
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Cloud Support Services
Security Services
- Security risk management
- Security audit services
- Security quality assurance (QA) and testing
- Other
Service scope
- Service constraints
- No
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
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M8 Solutions provides a highly responsive, end-to-end support model designed to meet the operational, assurance, and governance needs of NHS organisations.
Our approach combines technical excellence with a deep understanding of NHS environments, ensuring penetration testing delivers meaningful assurance without disrupting critical services.
Support begins pre-engagement, with complimentary scoping workshops to align testing objectives to your risk registers, governance requirements, and service constraints. Throughout delivery, our experienced consultants provide hands-on, coordinated support, working collaboratively with local teams to ensure testing is conducted safely, transparently, and within agreed boundaries.
We provide real-time communication and clear points of escalation, ensuring stakeholders remain informed and confident throughout the engagement. All testing is fully auditable, risk-assessed, and aligned to recognised standards, supporting CAF, DSPT, and wider regulatory obligations.
Post-engagement, our support extends beyond reporting. We deliver clear, prioritised findings, actionable remediation guidance, and a structured debrief session to ensure knowledge transfer and lasting improvement. Reports are tailored for both technical teams and executive audiences, enabling informed decision-making and confident board assurance.
By combining CREST-aligned technical delivery with NHS-aware support, M8 Solutions acts as a trusted extension of your team, providing assurance, clarity, and measurable value.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2019
- Government security clearance
- Developed Vetting (DV)
Pricing
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
Chief digital and data roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Chief information security officer | £1,650.00 |
Cyber security roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate cyber security testing | £1,050.00 | |
| Lead cyber security penetration testing | £1,050.00 | |
| Principal cyber security testing | £1,050.00 |
Non-mandatory Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- No
- ISO 28000:2022 certification
- No
- ISO 9001 certification
- No
- Quality management systems (QMS)
- Yes
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- No
- Cyber Essentials Alternative
- None of the criteria
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Please provide your Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number
- D2995467-44e9-4934-a970-bb8b35e0ed39
- Other security certifications
- No
Social value
- Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery
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Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.
Policy Outcome 1: Fair work: That offers fair wages and good working conditions. Help people get a job, stay in work, and progress in their careers, with good employment opportunities across the country. Notes: Where there is a large proportion of labour costs in the contract, commercial teams should consider MAC in Outcome 1 as a priority
- New or retained jobs on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b, 1c and 1d
- Providing opportunities for, and measuring and monitoring of, staff workforce conditions over time, including employee engagement, involvement in decision-making and satisfaction and adapting to any changes in the results, with clear processes for acting on issues identified
- Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
- Understanding of in-work progression issues affecting the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
- Understanding of the modern slavery risks and issues affecting the market, industry, sector or country (of origin or of source) relevant to the contract, and the workforce in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key subcontractors
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Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.
Policy Outcome 2: Skills for growth: Supporting growth sectors and addressing skills gaps.
- Understanding of employment and relevant skills issues, and of the education and training issues relating to the contract. Illustrative examples: demographics, skills shortages, new opportunities in high growth sectors, geographic/local community and skills/employment challenges
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Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.
Policy Outcome 3: Resilient, innovative and flexible supply chains: Support economic growth through enabling resilient businesses, opportunities for small businesses and voluntary, community and social enterprises
- Understanding of the types of businesses in the market and the level of participation by new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals
- Understanding of local demographics, needs and opportunities for the co-design of the goods, services and works to be delivered under the contract
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Mission: Make Britain a clean energy superpower: To cut bills, create jobs and deliver security with cheaper, zero-carbon electricity by 2030, accelerating to net zero
Policy Outcome 4: Sustainable procurement practices: Reducing carbon footprints, minimising waste, and promoting the use of clean energy and green technologies.
- Understanding of opportunities for additional environmental benefits delivery in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
- Understanding of how to influence staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders through the delivery of the contract to support climate and nature protection and improvement
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Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity: By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain
Policy Outcome 6: Employment and training: For those who face barriers to employment
- Understanding of employment and skills issues, and of the skills and employment shortages of high growth sectors relating to the contract
- Understanding of the issues affecting the representation of disabled people in the workforce in the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
- Inclusive and accessible development practices, including guidance for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition
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Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity: By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain
Policy Outcome 7: Creating a pipeline of opportunities: For the contract workforce, reducing barriers to entry for under-represented groups.
- Understanding of the underlying factors affecting improvements to reduce barriers to entry and training schemes for the target cohort(s) related to the contract workforce
- Understanding of issues relating to entering the contract workforce
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Mission: Build an NHS fit for the future: That is there when people need it; with fewer lives lost to the biggest killers; in a fairer Britain, where everyone lives well for longer.
Policy Outcome 8: Increasing productivity through physical and mental wellbeing: In the supply chain and communities in the relevant area.
- Understanding of issues relating to health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health, in the contract workforce
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