PureCyber

PureCyber is a Cardiff, Wales-based managed security provider built around a 24/7 Security Operations Centre, offering SOC-as-a-service, managed extended detection and response (MXDR), penetration testing, incident response, and brand protection as subscription services for organizations that can’t staff their own SOC. It is one of a small number of firms recognized by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre both as an Assured Service Provider for Cyber Incident Exercising and as an NCSC-approved Cyber Advisor, credentials that require external assessment rather than self-attestation.

Founded in 2016 by CEO Damon Rands, the company grew from a small Newport operation into a team of roughly 37 specialists serving customers described as spanning more than 80 countries. In 2025, growth-equity firm BGF invested £5 million in PureCyber, a deal that won ‘Private Equity/Venture Capital Deal of the Year’ at the Insider Wales Dealmakers Awards and gives the company capital to expand its managed services delivery beyond its current scale.

As an MSSP rather than a product vendor, PureCyber’s differentiation rests on service quality, NCSC-recognized credentials, and UK public-sector relationships more than on proprietary technology, putting it in direct competition with a large and fragmented field of regional and national managed detection and response providers.