Security & SOC Advisory
Independent advice on SOC capability, security operations, monitoring, controls and practical security decisions.
Professional cyber security, made accessible
Cyber security should not depend on how much you can afford.
Security Aid provides practical security and SOC advisory, including detection and monitoring reviews, gap analysis, security control architecture reviews, incident readiness and web application penetration testing.
Free means free.
Some of our work is provided completely free of charge.
- No sales trap
- No deliberately reduced assessment
- No obligation to purchase afterwards
Security and SOC advisory
Find the gaps that matter. Build a practical way forward.
Where Security Aid accepts an advisory engagement, the focus is evidence-led review and proportionate improvement, not selling another security product.
Review areas
- SOC and security monitoring gap analysis
- SIEM visibility, log-source and telemetry coverage
- Detection use cases, alert quality and engineering priorities
- Triage, escalation and incident workflow review
- Security control and target-state architecture reviews
- Microsoft, cloud and identity security control reviews
- Incident readiness and response advisory
What you receive
- A clear view of the current security position
- Evidence-backed monitoring and control gaps
- Risk-ranked recommendations and quick wins
- Target-state control and monitoring recommendations
- A proportionate improvement roadmap
- A practical findings and priorities walkthrough
Professional services
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What can Security Aid help with?
Real security work, practical advice and clear remediation priorities.
SOC, SIEM & Detection Reviews
Assess whether security telemetry, alerting, detections and operational workflows cover the threats that matter.
Security Control Gap Analysis
Identify material gaps across identity, endpoint, cloud, monitoring, response, resilience and governance controls.
Security Control Architecture Reviews
Review how security controls fit together and design a practical target state for monitoring and protection.
Microsoft Security Reviews
Review Microsoft 365, Entra ID and Defender controls, monitoring and remediation priorities.
Web Application Penetration Testing
Manual security testing focused specifically on web applications and realistic application-layer attack paths.
What's the catch?
There isn't one.
If Security Aid accepts your organisation for a free engagement, you do not need to subscribe afterwards.
Request Free SupportWe do not withhold useful recommendations. We do not turn a free advisory review into a product sales pitch.
The limitation is simply
Capacity.
Requests are reviewed against organisational need, security risk, available capacity, potential impact and urgency.
Paid members pay for guaranteed capacity and ongoing services, not access to findings that should have been included in free work.
Who we help
Who do we prioritise?
Applications are assessed individually so Security Aid can direct limited capacity where it can have meaningful impact.
Charities
Organisations delivering public and social benefit.
Non-profits
Mission-led organisations working with limited budgets.
Community organisations
Local groups supporting people and communities.
Small businesses
Businesses without enterprise security resources.
Significant cyber risk
Organisations facing an active or material concern.
Based in Northamptonshire. Supporting organisations across the UK.
How the model works
Protect. Sustain. Support.
Commercial activity exists to create dependable capacity and expand the free programme.
Free security and SOC advisory where capacity allows.
Request helpMemberships fund guaranteed support and ongoing services.
View membershipsSponsors and professionals help expand the programme.
Support Security Aid
Support + memberships
Fund capacity
More free security work
What useful reporting looks like
Clear gaps. Practical decisions.
Security advisory should leave an organisation understanding what is missing, why it matters and what to improve first.
- Evidence-led gap analysis
- Clear operational impact
- Risk-based remediation priorities
- Proportionate target-state recommendations
Example advisory finding
High
Privileged identity activity is not monitored across Entra ID
- Impact
- Suspicious role assignments, privileged sign-ins and administrative changes may not be identified or investigated promptly.
- Recommendation
- Ingest the relevant identity and audit logs, define priority detection use cases and assign clear triage and escalation ownership.
Transparent by design
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Our impact
Security Aid intends to publish transparent statistics as the programme grows. No invented numbers and no inflated claims.
Organisations supportedReporting coming soon
Free advisory engagements deliveredReporting coming soon
Security hours donatedReporting coming soon
Detection and control gaps identifiedReporting coming soon
Need guaranteed support?
Memberships provide certainty and fund the free mission.
Free services depend on available capacity. Memberships are for organisations that need reserved security capacity, advisory hours, ongoing support or platform functionality.
Membership revenue helps Security Aid provide more free security work.
View Memberships- Reserved advisory capacity
- Continuous monitoring
- Vulnerability tracking
- Incident response arrangements
- Reserved web application testing capacity
- Security reporting and platform functionality
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Need security help?
Whether you need a SOC review, monitoring gap analysis, security control architecture review, web application penetration test or incident advice, tell us what you need. If we can help through the free programme, we will tell you. If we do not have capacity, we will be transparent about that too.