CONSULTANCY SERVICES

Cloud, security anddata infrastructureat enterprise scale.

Cipherer works alongside CEOs, CTOs and CIOs to turn board-level priorities like growth, compliance, cost and risk into the secure cloud and data platforms that deliver them. Seventeen years and more than 20 locations worldwide, translating business strategy into infrastructure that does not fail.

Scale

Built for the platforms that can't go down.

  • 400M+Users Impacted
  • 20+Global Locations
  • 17+Years Experience
  • 15+Chain Foundations

Services

One consultancy, advise to run.

Five service lines covering the whole life of your technology. Every engagement has a defined scope, named deliverables and a principal accountable for it, whether you are a public body, a regulated firm or a growing business.

  1. 01AdviseAdvisory & Governance
  2. 02ProtectThreat Protection
  3. 03AssureOffensive Security & Assurance
  4. 04BuildDigital Engineering
  5. 05RunManaged Services

02 · Protect

Threat Protection

Defences shaped around who is likely to attack you: criminal groups, hacktivists or state-backed actors, including the politically motivated attacks often called cyber terrorism.

03 · Assure

Offensive Security & Assurance

Evidence of what an attacker could actually reach, gathered under your written authorisation.

05 · Run

Managed Services

The platforms and workplace IT we build or inherit, operated, monitored and kept current.

Built in code, deployed in code

Infrastructure as code. Security as code. Compliance as code.

Every environment we ship is reproducible from a git history. Terraform, GitOps, policy-as-code and continuous compliance baked into the pipeline from day one.

Selected work

Five projects, five impossible briefs.

Case summaries here are deliberately general. The specifics of a client's systems are withheld for their security, and the delivery methods behind them are Cipherer's intellectual property. Detail is available under NDA.

01
Joy Studios / Chaos TheoryGames & Entertainment

A live games studio, players online around the clock, and foundations that needed rebuilding to carry what was coming next. Do it as code, without anyone noticing.

Consolidated every team login onto single sign-on, stood up a guarded multi-account cloud foundation defined entirely as code, put security, policy and cost gates on every change, and moved the first production service across without a maintenance window.

A platform reproducible from version control, audit evidence produced as a by-product, and production serving players throughout.

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02
TrustWallet (Binance)Web3 / Wallets

220M+ users. One of the world's largest crypto wallets. Every transaction needs to be observable in seconds, not days.

Designed and built a production-grade governed data platform unifying on-chain transactions, user analytics and behavioural signals.

Real-time fraud detection and ML-driven product intelligence at wallet scale.

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03
NHS DigitalHealthcare / Public Sector

Mid-pandemic. Records covering ~69M patients across England on legacy on-prem. The platform feeding national vaccine research and COVID response could not go down.

Led the migration of the NHS Secondary Uses Service to AWS with zero-downtime data patterns, coordinating multiple suppliers under high political and public visibility.

National healthcare data flowing securely to clinicians and researchers throughout the COVID response.

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04
Sainsbury's Bank (via Accenture)Financial Services

A regulated bank's data estate, freshly migrated to AWS, but spread across teams and partner sources. Marketing analysts, risk modellers and forecasters were each re-deriving the same ground from scratch.

Built a production-grade serverless data platform on AWS for Sainsbury's Bank Datalabs, integrating cross-sector datasets behind one governed surface and shipping ML/AI pipelines as versioned, audited products.

A single trusted substrate behind marketing intelligence, fraud and risk modelling, and operational forecasting inside a regulated bank.

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05
CERN & GAIA, via STFCScientific Computing

Particle physics at the Large Hadron Collider, ~1 PB/day to permanent storage and ~90 PB/year to a ~1 EB tape archive after triggers throw away ~99.99% in real time. The GAIA spacecraft mapping a billion stars. The science only works if the data does.

Designed and operated the data processing and storage infrastructure at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh: a mission-critical compute estate, secure research networks, and capacity planning across long mission lifecycles.

Reliable data pipelines feeding two of the most demanding scientific programmes in the world.

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Every client

19 organisations, 2009 to today, newest first.

  1. Joy Studios / Chaos TheoryGames & Entertainment

    Greenfield multi-region cloud platform for a live casual games studio: single sign-on identity, a guarded multi-account foundation, gated infrastructure-as-code delivery and service-by-service cut-over with no big-bang migration.

    Case study
  2. NovaMedia / Postcode LotteryGambling & Lottery

    Cloud network engineering for the lottery group's platform: secure, resilient connectivity across a regulated multi-account estate, network consolidation, DNS and zero-trust private access.

  3. Babylon LabsBlockchain & Web3

    DevSecOps for Babylon blockchain infrastructure: security automation and continuous compliance embedded in validator and platform operations.

  4. Kinnaird ButchersRetail

    Online storefront for an independent Scottish butcher: hosted commerce platform, ordering extensions and domain kept running as one renewing annual service.

  5. Scottish GovernmentPublic Sector

    Three engagements: an org-level cyber security programme (endpoint detection and response, a SecOps target operating model, defence-in-depth), SRE capability built from the ground up for government cloud services, and the national network architecture baseline behind 300+ switch deployments.

  6. Fife Gas ConsultancyOil & Gas

    Managed cloud workspaces, endpoint protection, productivity and domain services for a Scottish gas consultancy: a small firm's entire IT bought as one renewing service.

  7. TrustWallet (Binance)Blockchain & Web3

    DevSecOps and a production governed data platform for one of the world's largest crypto wallets: real-time fraud detection and ML-driven product intelligence at 220M+ user scale.

    Case study
  8. Neon FoundationBlockchain & Web3

    DevOps and platform engineering for the Neon blockchain ecosystem: automated infrastructure and tooling for validator and protocol operations.

  9. Cornerstone / SiteimproveEnterprise SaaS

    Enterprise architecture and SOC 2 compliance for a global SaaS platform: architecture governance, design standards and security posture aligned across delivery teams.

  10. Equals Money / FairFXFinancial Services

    Principal platform engineering for regulated payments infrastructure: legacy systems modernised into cloud-native environments without breaking compliance.

  11. Validation CloudBlockchain & Web3

    Global blockchain infrastructure across 17+ regions and 15+ chain foundations: Node-as-a-Service and Validator-as-a-Service platforms with automated onboarding, monitoring and audit tooling, delivered to PCI-DSS and SOC 2.

  12. Accenture / InfinityWorksConsulting

    Four programme deliveries across financial services, healthcare and retail: NHS Digital SUS+, two Sainsbury's Bank platforms and Cinch.

  13. Authentication and profile platform during rapid product expansion: managed identity and RESTful services, PCI-DSS and SOC 2 alignment, and release management modernised onto automated pipelines.

  14. NHS DigitalHealthcare

    Zero-downtime migration of the Secondary Uses Service to AWS mid-pandemic, preserving records covering ~69M patients and feeding vaccine research and the national COVID-19 response.

    Case study
  15. Sainsbury's BankFinancial Services

    Two platforms: a serverless banking data platform with ML/AI pipelines for the Datalabs team, and a serverless mobile payments platform to full PCI-DSS with legacy file transfer retired.

    Case study
  16. Hybrid cloud operations and middleware modernisation: automation pipelines for financial applications, cost governance, directory services enablement, and a managed file transfer estate under PCI and SOX controls.

  17. Axios Systems / IFS AssystEnterprise SaaS

    300+ production environments across multiple hosting providers and public cloud at a 99.9% uptime SLA: disaster recovery, ITIL incident and problem management, third-line infrastructure and database support.

  18. STFC, Royal Observatory EdinburghScience & Space

    Data processing and storage infrastructure for CERN's Large Hadron Collider and ESA's GAIA mission: a mission-critical compute estate and secure research networks across decade-long mission lifecycles.

    Case study
  19. IT infrastructure across oil and gas facilities under ATEX/IECEx intrinsically safe standards: server estates, industrial control and sensor integration in hazardous zones, and deployment automation across distributed sites. Still a client today, with managed cloud workspaces, endpoint protection, productivity services, hosting and DNS renewed across the business every year.

Close to home

Built for our neighbours, with the same care.

Most of what we do is enterprise. Some of it is for the independent businesses and community groups around us in Scotland, built and looked after the same way as everything else.

  1. Crombie Residents AssociationCommunity · Crombie, Fife

    The village's online noticeboard: events, news, polls and issue reporting in one place, run by volunteers without technical help.

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  2. ACE Alloy RepairsIndependent business · Glenrothes, Fife

    Website for a mobile alloy wheel repair business, with a photo quote form so customers can show the damage before anyone travels.

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  3. Rosyth Men's ShedCommunity · Rosyth, Fife

    Website and members' area for the Shed: public pages, events, a members' directory and a document library the committee runs itself.

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  4. Goldfinch TattooIndependent business · Dundee

    Studio website with portfolio and artist pages the studio edits itself, and enquiries going straight to the studio's inbox.

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  5. ACE Custom CoatingsIndependent business · Glenrothes, Fife

    Website for a powder coating workshop, with a photo quote form for wheels, frames and metalwork.

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