Sectors / Regulated Sectors

Show your working, not just your promises.

Audit cycles, regulator visits, client due diligence — all easier when the tech estate can answer for itself. We design controls that produce evidence, so you can show how things work rather than describe them.

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Evidence, not assertions

Controls designed to produce proof — not a methodology document describing one.

Law firms, financial-services and wealth-management teams, and other compliance-heavy organisations need more than a responsive helpdesk. They need technical controls, records and escalation paths that survive client due diligence, insurer scrutiny, regulator questions and post-incident review. We've held that standard inside law firms for two decades — Gaby Hardwicke has trusted us for 22 years — and on estates where the bar is life-critical, like South East Coast Ambulance Service's 999 dispatch. The estate should answer for itself.

Evidence & security

Built to answer the question before it’s asked.

Two halves of the same job: controls that produce evidence on demand, and the security posture that means there’s good news to evidence in the first place.

Evidence & assurance

Evidence by design

Access reviews, change records, backup posture and endpoint compliance captured continuously — produced as a by-product of running the estate, not assembled the week before an audit.

Audit-ready records

Logging, retention and configuration state held in a form an auditor or regulator can use directly. No reconstruction after the fact.

Due-diligence answers

The security posture and documentation a client questionnaire or insurer demands — ready to hand over, not scrambled together.

Continuous assurance

Posture scoring and drift detection so the evidence is current, not a point-in-time snapshot that's stale by the next quarter.

How we secure it

Identity-first security

MFA, Conditional Access, least privilege and privileged access management around the systems that hold sensitive and client data.

Managed detection & response

24/7 SOC and threat hunting across endpoint, identity and mail — containment before an incident becomes a notifiable one.

Incident readiness

Monitoring, escalation, containment and the written record a risk team needs when something has to be explained.

UK operating model

UK-based support, UK private-cloud options and UK data residency wherever the licensing allows.

  • Cyber Essentials Plus
  • IASME Cyber Assurance L2
  • ISO 9001
  • ISO 27001
  • DBS-Enhanced — every employee
Sectors we serve

Where the estate has to answer for itself.

  • LegalTwo decades inside law firms — confidentiality, case management and multi-site resilience, delivered against SRA and ICO expectations. Gaby Hardwicke has trusted us for 22 years.
  • Financial services & wealth managementFCA-aware controls, evidence and data protection for firms handling client money and sensitive financial data.
  • Life-critical & public servicesWhen the estate underpins 999 dispatch, the standard is 'doesn't fail.' South East Coast Ambulance Service runs on a platform we designed and still refresh.
  • Charity & non-profitThe same threats and the same compliance pressure as larger organisations, met on leaner budgets and smaller teams.

M-Tech have consistently supported us as we have invested in our technology estate over the last twenty-plus years. They have a thorough understanding of this industry but more importantly they take the time to understand the business needs of their clients.

Voice of the clientGary Winterton · Partner, Gaby Hardwicke Solicitors
  1. Posture & evidence review

    A documented baseline — gap analysis against Cyber Essentials and the CAF, and an honest read on what evidence the estate produces today and what's missing.

  2. Controls hardening

    Identity, logging, backup and endpoint controls brought to a named standard that produces audit-ready evidence by default.

  3. Transition & co-managed

    Onboard alongside your internal compliance, COLP/COFA or risk function, working to whatever reporting cadence they need.

  4. Managed with continuous evidence

    Run to standard with monitoring, MDR and reporting a risk team can take straight into an audit or a due-diligence response.

FAQs

Questions we hear from regulated-sector firms.

Are you used to working with FCA-regulated and legal firms?
Yes. Our regulated-sector book includes law firms, financial-services firms and other compliance-heavy environments. We're used to operating against SRA, FCA and ICO expectations — and used to client and regulator due-diligence questionnaires that go beyond the marketing pages.
Can you produce audit-ready evidence?
Yes — that's the whole point of how we design controls. Logging, retention, change records, access reviews and configuration state are captured in a form you can hand to an auditor or a regulator without reconstructing it after the fact.
What accreditations do you hold?
Cyber Essentials Plus, IASME Cyber Assurance Level 2, ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 — independently audited and current. See Accreditations for the full set, plus the operating credentials behind the engineers themselves.
Can you sit alongside our existing compliance or risk team?
Yes. Most of our regulated-sector clients have an internal compliance, COLP/COFA or risk function and we work to whatever cadence they need — quarterly reporting, ad-hoc evidence packs, incident write-ups, the lot. We don't replace internal compliance — we supply the technical evidence trail it depends on.
Where does our data sit?
UK. Our private cloud (mtech.cloud) is hosted in UK data centres with UK-resident data and UK-based support. Where Microsoft 365 is in play, we configure tenants for UK data residency wherever the licensing allows.
How quickly can you respond to an incident?
24/7 SOC monitoring via our managed detection and response service, with documented incident-response playbooks. Critical incidents are picked up in minutes, not hours — and contained before they become the kind of thing you have to notify the regulator about.
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Let's make your estate answer for itself.

Book a discovery call. We'll review where your controls produce evidence today — and where a regulator, insurer or client would currently be told 'trust us'.