Protecting What Matters Most to Your Business
A Joined‑Up Approach to Risk and Resilience
Risks rarely stay neatly in one box. A cyber-attack quickly becomes a continuity problem. A supplier failure becomes a crisis. A data breach becomes an information security, privacy and reputational issue all at once.
That’s why our approach brings together the full landscape of risk and resilience into a coherent, connected framework — helping organisations understand how these areas interact and making it easier to build capability that feels natural and sustainable.
Business Continuity
Helping organisations understand their essential activities, identify dependencies, assess impacts and develop continuity strategies that work in the real world. Our continuity plans are short, clear and usable — designed to support calm action when disruption occurs.
Crisis Management
Supporting leadership teams to respond effectively during fast‑moving, high‑pressure events. We build simple, structured frameworks for crisis response and provide training and exercises that strengthen decision‑making, communication and teamwork.
Information Security
Supporting clear, proportionate approaches to information security, including ISO 27001 implementation, risk‑based controls, policies, and integration with resilience and Data Protection arrangements.
Supply Chain Resilience
Helping organisations understand supplier dependencies, assess realistic risks, establish proportionate assurance, and develop fallback arrangements that protect essential services when suppliers experience difficulties.
Data Protection
Helping organisations handle personal data responsibly, clearly and confidently. This includes practical governance, DPIAs, privacy notices, staff awareness — and supporting organisations as an outsourced Data Protection Officer where needed.
Making Risk Understandable
Organisations are often told that risk management must be complex — but complexity rarely builds capability. Instead, it creates hesitation and uncertainty.
Our work focuses on clarity:
- clear documentation that people can understand in a single reading
- clear roles and responsibilities
- clear escalation paths
- clear plans that support confident action
- clear connections between risk, resilience, security and governance
Clarity enables better decisions, especially during disruption. It helps people feel calm rather than overwhelmed, and it supports the steady, coordinated response that organisations rely on when the unexpected occurs.
Tailored to Your Organisation
No two organisations face identical risks. We take the time to understand your context and design solutions that are proportionate, practical, and fit for purpose.
Projects & Retained Consultancy Support
Choose from flexible and affordable plans designed to match your work style.
Proportion, Not Pressure
Every organisation is different. A small tech team does not need the same level of formality as a large provider of national services. Effective resilience is not about adopting the heaviest framework; it is about matching effort to context.
Our approach is always proportionate. We help organisations:
- avoid over‑engineering
- focus on what genuinely matters
- build arrangements that fit their culture
- remove unnecessary documentation
- create systems that teams will actually use
This proportionate approach is one reason clients continue working with us year after year: it protects their time, supports their staff and strengthens capability without adding burden.
Confidence That Lasts
Confidence is the outcome of clarity and proportion. When staff know what matters, understand what to do and trust their arrangements, organisations respond to disruption with steadiness rather than stress.
We help build that confidence through:
- supportive training
- realistic exercises
- simple, human‑centred plans
- long‑term guidance
- clear alignment between continuity, crisis, information security and Data Protection
Confidence is also built through continuity of support. Because Cambridge Risk Solutions is intentionally small, clients work directly with an experienced practitioner who understands their organisation, its pressures and its priorities. There are no subcontractors or shifting teams — just steady, consistent guidance.
Over time, this creates strong relationships based on trust, clarity and shared understanding. Many of our clients have worked with us for more than a decade, returning for support as their organisations change or their needs evolve.
Tailored to Your Organisation
No two organisations face identical risks. We take the time to understand your context and design solutions that are proportionate, practical, and fit for purpose.
What Makes Us Different
We plan solutions for your Business Reilience
Every detail is designed to keep you comfortable, focused, and inspired throughout your day.
Business Continuity Planning
Effective planning that takes into account risk evaluation and business impact analysis, supported by clear and concise crisis management. We work with you to develop user-friendly plans.
Business Impact Analysis
The Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is one of the most important, and least well understood, stages of the Business Continuity Management Lifecycle; we can assist with your BIA.
Risk Evaluation & Control
Risk evaluation and treatment provide a process to identify, prioritise and managing your risks. Cambridge Risk Solutions can assist with risk management for business operational and information security risks.
Training & Exercising
No Business Continuity Management programme is effective without a significant element of training. Moreover, ongoing Crisis Management training and exercising is key. We can provide objective training and exercising.
Statement of Applicability
Which controls do you need to have in place? How do you link your risk assessment process into your SoA? How do you ensure that you have effective controls in place? We can assist with your SoA.
Integrated Management Systems
Management Systems assist with your on-going management, maintenance and continual improvement. We work with you to develop a fully integrated management system, enabling certification to ISO 22301 and ISO 27001.