Portcullis was established in 1986. We specialise in Security Testing, Managed Security and a rigorous selection of best-of-breed security technologies, backed up by the excellent expertise of our workforce.

Portcullis Security Testing Tervices

Our security specialists cover a whole range of services including the testing of networks from both an Internal and External perspective, Application Testing, Auditing, Bespoke Testing, Code Reviews, Open Source Research and Secure Architectural Design.

Portcullis Forensics Services

Headed by Andy Henry, former CESG Computer Forensics Lab Team leader, from a new Portcullis facility in Cheltenham, the Portcullis’ Forensic section are offering; Forensic Readiness Planning (FRP), Incident Response (IR) and a number of specialist investigation services. These include Network Forensics, Forensic Acquisitions and Laboratory Analysis, Data and Password Recovery, Cell Phone and PDA Acquisition and Analysis and SIM Card Evidence Recovery.

Portcullis managed security services

Our managed services include a managed IP-VPN service and around the clock management and monitoring of clients' network defences from a secure Operations Centre. We have recently augmented our managed services portfolio with a managed email filtering service to protect corporate email systems from spam, viruses, trojans, worms and other forms of malicious attack.

Portcullis security products

Our portfolio of security products has been carefully selected to meet the exacting requirements of both our clients and our own security professionals. Because Portcullis is independent we only support security products that we rate as best in their category and that we can easily integrate into robust security solutions on behalf of our clients.

Portcullis people

The quality of the people who make up our organisation is paramount to the reputation of Portcullis. We have worked hard to build up a team of security professionals from individuals whose talents, dedication and unique skills embody the Portcullis ethos that our clients' security comes first - always.

Portcullis clients

Our clients cover a wide range of organisations in the commercial and government sectors. In the government sector we were the first company to be a member of all CESG Industry Partnership Schemes. We are an accredited government IT Security health check ("CHECK") service provider. The rigorous standards of security protection that we provide to government clients are also enjoyed by our commercial clients.