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Get a clear view of your security position with a free assessment from BCN, highlighting risks and showing next steps.
BCN’s free Cyber Security Assessment helps medium-sized businesses spot hidden weaknesses, understand where security controls may be falling short, and get practical advice on what to fix first.
It is a no-obligation way to reduce uncertainty, gain clear recommendations, and make better decisions about your current security position, with ongoing support available if you want help putting the next steps into action.
If you are already reviewing BCN’s wider cyber security services, this assessment is a strong place to start.
A cyber security assessment helps your business see where weaknesses sit today, whether that is in user access, device settings, email protection, or gaps in current IT infrastrucutre. It gives leaders better visibility, helps teams focus on the issues that matter most, and supports stronger decisions on where time, budget, and outside support should go next. It can also help businesses understand where they are on their cyber security journey and what needs attention first.
Cyber threats are evolving quickly, and many of the biggest risks are easy to miss until something goes wrong. Weak permissions, old settings, poor monitoring, shadow IT and underused security tools can sit quietly in the background for months. Teams are often busy with support, projects, and day-to-day maintenance, which makes full reviews harder to carry out. A security assessment helps bring those issues into view and gives your business a clearer path to reducing risk and maintaining good security posture.
A cyber security assessment helps you identify these risks early and take action before they become costly problems.
BCN reviews your existing cyber security setup to assess how effectively your controls are working across users, devices, access, and Microsoft technologies. This gives you a clear view of what is in place, what may be underperforming, and where attention is needed.
The assessment highlights the areas most likely to expose your business to avoidable risk. That may include weak permissions, missing controls, poor visibility, inconsistent policies, or settings that no longer reflect how your organisation works day to day. It helps you see which problems need attention first.
BCN looks at where security features, configurations, or controls may be underused, misconfigured, or missing from your current approach. This helps show whether your existing security setup is giving you the level of protection, oversight, and control your business expects from its current investment.
You will receive practical recommendations based on the issues found during the review. This helps your business identify security weaknesses and understand the risks they may pose, so you can decide what to fix first, what needs longer-term work, and where BCN can support delivery.
The free assessment is there to give you useful insight without pressure. You will come away with a clearer understanding of your current position and the next steps worth considering, whether you choose to make changes in-house or work with BCN afterwards.
Specialist cyber services
Strong cyber security is not achieved through a single product or one-off change. It depends on having the right tools in place, supported by expert guidance, effective configuration, and ongoing attention as your business and risks evolve. BCN’s advanced cyber solutions are designed to give organisations the support they need to strengthen protection, improve visibility, and take a more proactive approach to security.
By combining Microsoft-focused expertise with practical implementation, monitoring, managed protection, and user awareness, BCN helps businesses build a more resilient security posture over time. Whether you need support with day-to-day security operations, clearer guidance on risk and priorities, or wider cyber services as part of a long-term plan, BCN can help you make more confident and informed security decisions.
Get more from your Microsoft security investment. BCN reviews your controls, strengthens configuration, and aligns security features to how your business actually operates
Ensure your security tools are set up correctly from the start. BCN supports implementation so controls are properly deployed, structured, and ready for day-to-day use.
Maintain visibility across your environment. Ongoing monitoring helps you detect issues earlier, respond faster, and prevent security controls drifting over time.
Extend your internal capability with managed protection. BCN provides additional coverage where your team needs more time, specialist input, or consistent day-to-day support.
Your people can be one of the biggest security risks without the right training. Through BCN’s Cyber Security Awareness, we help your team spot phishing attacks, respond to suspicious emails, and build better habits that reduce the risk of a breach.
Make clearer decisions with practical security advice. BCN supports leaders and IT teams to understand risk, prioritise action, and improve security with confidence. If your business needs support beyond the assessment, BCN can also help with cyber essentials, firewall security, security awareness training and penetration testing as part of a broader cyber security plan.
A changing landscape
AI is changing the way cyber threats are created, delivered, and scaled. Attacks are becoming faster, more convincing, and harder to detect, which means businesses need to review whether their current security approach is strong enough to keep up. Understanding how these threats are evolving is an important step in improving protection and reducing risk.
AI is helping threat actors work more quickly, scale their activity more easily, and produce attack content in higher volumes than many businesses are prepared to handle. That puts more pressure on teams that are already stretched.
Emails, messages, and impersonation attempts can now sound more polished and believable, which makes it harder for users to spot suspicious behaviour through instinct alone. That raises the risk of staff trusting something they should question.
As threats become more realistic and more frequent, weak monitoring, inconsistent controls, and gaps in reporting can make dangerous activity much harder to detect early. Small warning signs are easier to miss when attacks blend into normal business communication.
Businesses need stronger protection around access, monitoring, user behaviour, and Microsoft security controls so they can respond to modern threats with greater confidence. BCN’s guidance on AI and cyber security is useful for organisations reviewing how these threats are changing.
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Why BCN
Choosing the right cyber security partner is about more than technical knowledge. You need a team that can provide clear advice, practical support, and long-term guidance to help protect your business effectively. BCN combines Microsoft security expertise with hands-on delivery and ongoing support, giving you confidence that your security strategy is built around real business needs.
Get more from your Microsoft security tools. BCN reviews configuration, identifies missed controls, and highlights the changes needed to improve protection and visibility across your environment. As a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Security, BCN is recognised for delivering Microsoft security solutions that help organisations protect critical systems and data.
BCN can support your business from the first assessment through to setup, configuration, onboarding, and longer-term service delivery. That means you are not left with a list of findings and no practical route forward. You have access to a team that can help turn recommendations into meaningful action.
The advice BCN provides is shaped around what works for the business, not what sounds impressive on paper. Decision-makers need clarity on risk, likely impact, priorities, and next steps. BCN focuses on giving businesses useful guidance that supports planning, investment, and day-to-day security improvements.
For businesses that need continued support, BCN offers ongoing cyber services that help maintain visibility and keep security controls working as they should. This is valuable for teams that need extra capacity, specialist input, or a steadier approach to monitoring and protecting the environment over time.
Work with a partner that understands your business. BCN builds a long-term view of your systems, priorities, and pressures, delivering support that is relevant, consistent, and aligned to your wider technology strategy.
FAQs
A Cyber Security Assessment is a review of your current security position. It helps identify weaknesses, highlights where controls may be missing or underused, and gives your business a clearer picture of what needs attention. It supports better decisions on risk, priorities, and next steps.
BCN’s free assessment includes a review of your current security posture, identification of key risk areas, a look at security gaps, and practical recommendations on what should happen next. The outcome is no obligation, so you gain useful insight and can decide how you want to proceed.
BCN combines Microsoft security knowledge with practical support, which means the advice is not limited to high-level observations. BCN can help your business understand the findings, prioritise improvements, and act on them through setup, configuration, monitoring, and ongoing cyber services where needed.
Get a clear view of your risk, practical recommendations, and the next steps worth taking
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