Secure Step Forward

Secure Step Forward Ltd is a UK compliance, risk and resilience consultancy based in Peterborough. We work as a retained partner to mid-sized, accountable organisations across ISO 27001, ISO 22301, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001, Cyber Essentials and data protection, staying with the client after the certificate arrives rather than delivering a project and leaving.

Our clients include Colliers, Acas, Beale & Co, Birketts, Greene King, Lyca Mobile, Trafford & Stockport College Group and Podium Analytics. Across every client audit to date, none has received a major nonconformity. At Colliers, the partnership now spans five standards and more than four years, with zero findings at the most recent recertification.

What makes the work different is measurement. Every requirement we assess at internal audit is scored on how well it is actually working, not just whether it exists, producing a single Effectiveness Score for the system. More than 1,400 requirements and controls have been assessed this way, with an average score of 92 across active engagements. It is how gaps are found before an external auditor finds them.

Our services follow five outcome areas: Build and Certify, Maintain and Improve, Test and Validate, Respond and Remediate, and Govern and Report. Engagements are led by senior practitioners who stay with the client for years, with knowledge transfer to the internal team built in from the start, so the framework is owned by the organisation, not by its consultants. Two ways to start: a free self-assessed Readiness Check, or a practitioner-rated Management System Health Check.