CDS Defence & Security
Programme Capabilities
Cyber threats affect every organisation, from minor issues to major operational and financial impacts. CDS Defence & Security designs, implements and operates cyber security programmes that maximise digital resilience. We tailor solutions to needs and budgets, providing security-cleared teams or embedded specialists across architecture, delivery, operations, monitoring and maintenance worldwide.
Features
- Cyber security programme and project management
- Cyber security transformation
- Implementation and operation of cyber technologies
- Specialist Insider Threat monitoring and detection
- Fully aligned with HMG and International policy and standards
- End to end managed cyber security programme capabilities
Benefits
- Better understanding of your security posture
- Maximised digital resilience
- Reduced cyber security and information risk
- Full benefit from your technology and cyber security investments
- Reduced cyber security costs and burden
- Improved user commitment, understanding, competence and trustworthiness
- Truly agnostic technology support, unallied to any software or hardware
- Solutions that are tailored to your goals and budget
Pricing
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 15
Service ID
9 3 2 6 8 5 6 6 5 1 3 4 3 3 2
Contact
CDS Defence & Security
Lucie Pickford
Telephone: 07825595792
Email: lucie.pickford@cdsds.uk
About your service
- Service categories
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Cloud Support Services
Security Services
- Security strategy
Service scope
- Service constraints
- Our service has no inherent constraints that buyers should be aware of. We work collaboratively with customers to understand their requirements and overcome any challenges together, ensuring solutions are flexible, practical, and aligned to operational needs.
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Yes
- Support response times
- We respond to questions promptly during standard business hours, 9am–5pm, Monday to Friday. Queries are addressed as quickly as possible based on team availability, with priority given to urgent matters.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- We provide flexible support levels tailored to customer needs, ranging from standard business-hours support to enhanced support models where required. Costs vary depending on the level of support, scope, and duration, and are agreed with customers upfront. Where appropriate, we can provide a dedicated Client Account Manager .
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
- No
Architecture roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Lead security architect | £1,100.00 | |
| Principal security architect | £1,300.00 |
Cyber security roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Lead cyber security audit and assurance | £1,100.00 | |
| Principal cyber security audit and assurance | £1,300.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Lead cyber security governance and risk manager | £1,100.00 | |
| Principal cyber security governance and risk manager | £1,300.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Lead cyber security monitoring | £1,100.00 | |
| Principal cyber security monitoring | £1,300.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Lead cyber security incident response | £1,100.00 | |
| Principal cyber security incident response | £1,300.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Lead cyber security vulnerability management | £1,100.00 | |
| Principal cyber security vulnerability management | £1,300.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Lead cyber security digital forensics | £1,100.00 | |
| Principal cyber security digital forensics | £1,300.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Lead cyber security secure systems architecture and design | £1,100.00 | |
| Principal cyber security secure systems architecture and design | £1,300.00 |
Non-mandatory Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- PJR Inc.
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- Tuesday 20 January 2026
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- None.
- ISO 28000:2022 certification
- No
- ISO 9001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO 9001 certification
- PJR Inc.
- ISO 9001 accreditation date
- Wednesday 8 October 2025
- What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover
- None.
- Quality management systems (QMS)
- Yes
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number
- C912406d-125e-4871-9dea-a5507634ffa9
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Please provide your Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number
- 642030a2-704f-48d8-afa9-7f6179bc5719
- 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
- 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
- Monitoring of employee engagement rates (by protected characteristic) and, where necessary, the development of actions to ensure all voices are heard across the diversity of the workforce
- Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about, and feel empowered to, address their physical wellbeing
- Measures to support in-work progression to help people in the contract workforce, to move into higher paid work by developing new skills relevant to the contract
- Support for the contract workforce by providing career advice, and providing opportunities for staff working on the contract with in-work progression career development into known skills shortages or high growth areas
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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
- Delivery of training schemes and programmes to address any identified skills gaps and under-representation in the workforce for the contract (e.g. prison leavers, care leavers, kinship carers, disabled people)
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Service documents
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