Cyber Review

The Problem We Solve

Cyber isn’t failing because of a lack of technology.
It’s failing because of complexity, fragmentation, and misalignment.


Across every organisation, we see the same challenges:

  • Cyber is moving too fast 

    AI-driven threats, rapid innovation, and evolving architectures are outpacing internal capability.

  • Vendor noise is overwhelming

    Too many tools. Too many messages. No clear path to outcomes.

  • Teams are stretched

    Skills shortages and tool sprawl reduce visibility, control, and effectiveness.

  • Security is disconnected from the business

    Cyber must support cloud, AI, transformation, and growth - without slowing anything down.

Book Your Cyber Discovery Review 

A CDW-led, fully independent assessment designed to give you clarity on your security objectives, not pitch products.

Our Cyber Strategy Workshop uses a structured, business-led approach to cut through complexity, align security to your priorities, and define a clear path forward.

What the Workshop Covers

✔ ALIGN – Understand your business, priorities, and risk landscape
✔ DISCOVER – Identify real challenges across people, process, and technology
✔ PRIORITISE – Focus on what matters most and where to act first
✔ MAP – Translate strategy into a clear, actionable roadmap aligned to NIST and industry standards

What You’ll Get

✔ A clear view of your current security position
✔ Visibility of gaps, risks, and overlaps across your environment
✔ Identification of inefficiencies and tool sprawl
✔ Alignment to recognised frameworks and best practice
✔ Top 3–5 prioritised actions aligned to business outcomes
✔ A structured roadmap across Identity, Network & Edge, Data, Security Operations and AI
✔ Fully independent guidance—no vendor bias, no technology commitments

The Outcome

By the end of the session, you will have:

• Clear priorities
• Aligned stakeholders
• Defined next steps
• A security strategy that is practical, structured, and outcome-driven 

How We Deliver Outcomes 

We don’t start with technology, we start with your business.

Our approach is designed to cut through complexity, align security to what matters most, and turn strategy into clear, actionable outcomes. By combining a structured methodology with an industry-driven model, we help organisations move from noise and uncertainty to clarity,
control, and measurable impact.

We structure security around three core outcomes - Secure Business Strategy, Operational Excellence, and Cyber Resilience. This ensures every decision is aligned, effective, and built to
deliver real-world impact.

Operational Excellence

Operational Excellence is about making security work effectively, consistently, and efficiently across the organisation.

Most environments don’t fail because they lack tools—they fail because:

- Tools aren’t integrated
- Processes aren’t aligned
- Teams are overwhelmed

This pillar focuses on turning existing capability into real, usable performance.

What this means in practice:

- Reducing tool sprawl and overlap
- Integrating platforms into a cohesive operating model
- Improving detection, triage, and response workflows
- Introducing automation and AI to reduce manual effort
- Standardising processes across teams and technologies

Why it matters:

- Lowers operational cost
- Reduces alert fatigue
- Improves speed of response
- Increases return on existing investments

Secure Business Strategy

Secure Business Strategy ensures that security is aligned to business priorities, not bolted on afterwards.

Security should enable:

- Growth
- Transformation
- Innovation

Not slow it down.

What this means in practice:

- Embedding security into:
- Cloud adoption
- AI / GenAI initiatives
- Digital transformation
- M&A activity
- Designing architecture based on Zero Trust principles
- Translating cyber risk into business language
- Supporting decision-making at leadership level

Why it matters:

- Enables faster adoption of new technologies
- Reduces risk during transformation
- Aligns IT, security, and business leadership
- Prevents costly rework and redesign

Cyber Resilience

Cyber Resilience is the ability to withstand, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents with speed and control.

Prevention alone is no longer enough.

What this means in practice:
  • Strengthening detection and response capability
  • Building incident response readiness
  • Protecting critical data and systems
  • Ensuring robust backup and recovery
  • Continuously testing and validating resilience
Why it matters:
  • Reduces impact of breaches
  • Minimises downtime and disruption
  • Protects revenue and reputation
  • Increases board-level confidence

Our Security Practice Model

We simplify cybersecurity into clear, actionable domains - allowing you to understand, prioritise, and execute effectively.

  • Identity

    Identify & Protect

    Zero Trust foundations

    Access governance and control

    Identity lifecycle and automation

    Asset discovery and visibility

  • SASE

    Protect & Detect

    Secure access for hybrid users

    SASE, cloud, and network protection

    Segmentation and policy enforcement

    Reducing tool sprawl 

     

  • Sec Operations

    Detect, Respond & Recover

    Threat detection and response

    Incident management and containment

    Exposure management

    Automation and orchestration

    Backup and recovery 

  • Data Security

    Protect & Recover

    Data classification and protection

    Data loss prevention

    Backup, recovery, and resilience

    Governance and compliance 

     

  • AI Security

    Across All Domains

    Secure AI adoption

    AI-driven threat detection

    Governance and risk management

    Automation at scale 

     

This domain architecture allows us to align the right technology, services, and partner ecosystems to your strategic goals — without bias or vendor dependency. 

Learn More About Our Core Partners 

Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks is a global leader in cybersecurity, helping organisations prevent cyber threats across networks, cloud environments and the modern workforce. Its platform‑based approach brings together advanced threat prevention, secure access, and security operations, enabling businesses to reduce risk while simplifying security management.

Working in partnership, CDW and Palo Alto Networks help organisations protect users, applications and data wherever work happens. From securing hybrid and remote workforces to delivering cloud‑centric security models such as SASE and zero trust, CDW combines Palo Alto Networks’ industry‑leading technology with deep security expertise, design and managed services to deliver practical, outcomes‑focused cybersecurity. Together, we help customers increase visibility, strengthen resilience and stay ahead of an evolving threat landscape.
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Fortinet

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CrowdStrike

Coming Soon.

Proofpoint

Proofpoint helps organisations reduce cyber risk by protecting people, data and AI across email, cloud and collaboration environments. Its human-centric security platform addresses the most common and costly threats, including phishing, impersonation, accidental data loss and compliance risk.

Powered by advanced, AI-driven threat detection, Proofpoint focuses on the primary attack surface: people and the AI agents acting on their behalf. From market-leading email and collaboration security to modern data loss prevention, Proofpoint enables organisations to safeguard sensitive information without disrupting productivity or innovation.

As organisations accelerate adoption of AI tools and agents, data is accessed, shared and exposed in new ways. Proofpoint provides visibility into where sensitive data resides, how it is used, and how to reduce risk across email, cloud applications and endpoints.

Key capabilities include email and collaboration protection, data loss prevention, adaptive controls to prevent misdirected or risky data sharing, and advanced data discovery and classification across the environment.

CDW and Proofpoint work together to secure people, data and AI at every interaction point, combining Proofpoint’s human-centric platform with CDW’s security expertise to help organisations reduce risk and embrace new technologies with confidence.

The CDW Difference 

CDW UK brings a level of capability that few providers can match. 
Our strength lies not only in our technical expertise, but in the operational backbone that supports it. 

Our SOC & NOC: AlwaysOn Protection

CDW delivers fully integrated Network Operations Centre (NOC) and Security Operations Centre (SOC) services, providing: 

  • 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response 

  • Deep visibility across cloud, network, identity, endpoints 

  • AIenhanced analytics for faster triage 

  • Incident containment and playbook automation 

  • Compliance support across NCSC, CAF, ISO and sector frameworks 

  • A unified operations model that reduces complexity and improves outcomes 

This combination means CDW not only designs your defensive architecture, we help you sustain it, optimise it, and continually improve it.Â