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High-Risk Individual Protection
State-linked groups have spent years spear-phishing UK parliamentarians, think tanks and journalists, often building rapport through personal email before sending the malicious link (NCSC and Five Eyes advisory, December 2023). Work accounts usually have an IT team behind them. Personal phones, email and social media rarely do, and that is where these attacks land. We work with each person to lock those accounts down, then keep them under review.
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Who it is for
Elected members, candidates, MSP and MP staff, senior executives, journalists, think-tank staff and others with a public or political profile, and the people closest to them.
What is included
- Hardening of personal email, messaging, social media and cloud accounts with passkeys or security keys
- Phone and laptop review, updates and safer settings
- Protection against SIM-swap and number-porting fraud with your mobile provider
- Enrolment in the free protections government and technology providers offer high-risk people, set up properly rather than left as advice
- Review of what can be found online about you and your home, with removal requests where the law allows
- A check of your phone for known spyware indicators, with referral to specialist forensic labs if anything is found
- Periodic review during the year
What you get
- Accounts and devices hardened, in person or remotely
- A personal exposure summary and the removal requests made
- A one-page plan for what to do if an account is taken over
- A named contact
Political opinions are special category data. We handle what you share under a data processing agreement, keep the minimum, and never profile or target the people who threaten you.
Why Cipherer
- Principal-led. The person who scopes the work does the work, with no hand-off to a junior team.
- SC-cleared principal consultant (National Security Vetting), and a Cyber Essentials certified company.
- Seventeen years of delivery across government, healthcare, banking and Web3, including an organisation-wide cyber security programme for the Scottish Government.
- Security by design in everything we build and run, from a community website to a bank's data platform.
- One partner from advice to operation, based in Scotland and working across the UK.
Every engagement starts with a short call to agree scope, then a written proposal setting out deliverables, timeline and price.