A Day in the Life of Our Cyber Security Team
While most of the business is starting their first meeting of the day, our cyber security team is already checking in on the overnight landscape. Cyber threats don’t follow office hours, and protecting systems, data, and people is a responsibility that never really switches off.
This is what a typical day looks like behind the scenes.
Morning: Staying One Step Ahead
The day begins with visibility. Our analysts review security dashboards, alerts, and logs to understand what’s happened overnight. Most activity is routine — automated scans, normal user behaviour, background noise — but the goal is to quickly spot anything that doesn’t belong.
Not every issue needs immediate action, but every issue needs to be understood.
Midday: Working With the Business
As the day progresses, collaboration becomes the focus. Cyber security doesn’t operate in isolation — it works alongside IT, engineering, finance, and the sales team.
This might mean advising on a new system design, providing security expertise on a client call or reviewing reports that need to be presented to customers.
By translating technical risks into clear, practical guidance, the team helps others make informed decisions — keeping projects moving while maintaining strong security standards.
Afternoon: Investigating the Unexpected
No two days are ever exactly the same. An alert might trigger deeper investigation, or unusual behaviour may need to be validated. Most alerts turn out to be false positives — but every alert is treated seriously until proven otherwise.
The goal is simple: resolve issues before they become incidents and minimise impact if they do.
Continuous Improvement: Building Stronger Defences
Between investigations and meetings, there’s always work happening in the background. The team reviews emerging threats, improves detection rules, remediates vulnerabilities, and strengthens defences based on real-world activity.
Cyber security is never “done.” Attack techniques evolve constantly and staying effective means learning just as fast. Regular training, threat intelligence and lessons learned from past events all feed into making tomorrow safer than today.
Ending the Day: Quiet Success
By the end of the day, there’s no dramatic finish — and that’s exactly the point. Systems are still running. Our customers are secure.
For the cyber security team, that’s success.
We don’t measure our day by what went wrong, but by what never happened — the threats stopped early, the risks reduced, and the trust maintained
