COMPANY INFORMATION
Trust & Security
When you’re trusting us with your risks, documents, suppliers, and training. You deserve complete clarity on how we protect that information.
Security isn’t a feature of Protects – it’s the foundation everything is built on. We operate with all the same discipline and controls expected of top-tier regulated industries, and we’re proud to show our work.
Independently certified & externally tested
Cyber Essentials Plus (CE+) Certified
We undergo annual CE+ assessment to validate our technical controls, secure configuration, network protection, patching regime and threat response.
ISO 27001 - Certified & audited annually
Protects and YDC are certified to ISO/IEC 27001. Our Information Security Management System covers:
- Secure development
- Access control
- Supplier assurance
- Incident management
- Asset management
- Risk assessment and treatment
We maintain full audit trails and undergo external surveillance each year.
National Cyber Security Awards - Nominated (×3)
We’ve been recognised across multiple categories for our contribution to UK cyber training and practical SME security.
How we keep your organisation secure
Secure Development Lifecycle
Advanced Data Protection
We comply with GDPR and maintain ICO registration.
Regular Vulnerability Assessments
High severity issues are remediated as standard within 72 hours.
Resilient Infrastructure
Backups - Redundancy - Failover - DDoS protection - Automated monitoring
Our uptime target is 99.9%.
Privacy & Governance
We are registered with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. We maintain Article 30 records, DPIAs and legitimate interest assessments where required.
Our AI features follow:
- Clear purpose limitation
- No training on customer data
- Transparent input/output boundaries
- Strict access controls
- Optionality where possible
AI assists you – it never analyses your data for its own purposes.
A team you can trust
Protects was built by YDC, and founded by information security and risk experts with experience in regulated industry and government security.
The management team are senior technologists with expertise in secure software development, data protection, risk assessment and assurance, and ISO27001 implementation and audit support.
We build this platform like the organisations we secure.