Cluster Business Members

IdentityFirst Ltd is a Northumberland-based cybersecurity company specialising in identity security solutions for UK organisations. Founded by Mark Ahearne (35 years IT experience, 25 years in Active Directory and identity management), we provide comprehensive identity security assessments across Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, AWS IAM, GCP IAM, Okta, and Kubernetes environments.
Launched November 2025, our IdentityHealthCheck platform delivers read-only identity security assessments with AI-powered analysis, covering the hybrid and multi-cloud environments where traditional tools like PingCastle (AD-only) leave critical gaps. We serve UK SMEs, charities, and MSPs with transparent, evidence-based security posture reporting at £250-£2,500 monthly (Founders pricing with up to 50% off) – representing 30-67x cost savings compared to enterprise alternatives.

GoDefend was built for growing SMEs. We make cybersecurity simple and effective—without the jargon, expensive price tags, or the complexity of building an in-house team. Our services include CREST-accredited penetration testing, the GoDefend platform for always-on threat detection and intelligence, and support with cyber accreditations like Cyber Essentials Plus.

Waterstons are a Business, IT and Security consultancy based in the UK and Australia. We are a value focused business aiming to build long term relationships with our clients, helping them solve and manage their business problems or provide project or managed services. We have extensive experience across a wide variety of sectors and specialisms and a wide range of subject and sector specialists waiting to help.

CyberCX is a leading provider of professional cyber security and cloud services across the United Kingdom, United States, Australia and New Zealand. With a workforce of over 1,400 professionals, we are a trusted partner to private and public sector organisations helping our customers confidently manage cyber risk, respond to incidents and build resilience in an increasingly complex and challenging threat environment.

Through our end-to-end range of cyber and cloud capabilities, CyberCX empowers our customers to securely accelerate opportunities in the digital economy. Our services include: consulting and advisory, governance, risk and compliance, incident response, penetration testing and assurance, network and infrastructure solutions, cloud security and solutions, identity and access management, managed security services and cyber security training.

Arctic Wolf delivers dynamic 24/7 cybersecurity protection tailored to the specific needs of your organisation.

Through our knowledge and expertise, Rule28 is a trusted source of support for organisations to effectively prevent, adapt and respond to, as well as recover and learn from, operational disruptions.

Whether your business is just starting out in business continuity and resilience or has an established programme and looking to continuously improve, Rule28 can offer a breadth of services to support you to start, maintain and improve the resilience of your business.