Secure. Resilient. Ready for Whatever Comes Next.
Financial services organisations depend on technology to keep critical services available, protect sensitive data and meet increasingly demanding operational requirements.
Simplify IT provides specialist IT services and support for financial services organisations, helping you strengthen infrastructure, improve cyber resilience and build IT environments designed around security, availability and recovery.
Whether you need additional expertise alongside your existing IT team, support for a major infrastructure transformation or an experienced partner to manage key parts of your environment, we're here to help.
Enterprise Capability. Small Business Agility.
IT Solutions Built for Financial Services
When resilience matters, your infrastructure has to deliver.
Technology failure, cyber incidents and third-party outages can quickly become business-critical events for financial organisations. The FCA defines operational resilience around the ability to prevent, adapt, respond to, recover and learn from operational disruption.
Simplify IT provides expertise across managed services, infrastructure, networking, cyber security, private cloud, backup and disaster recovery, helping organisations reduce complexity while improving the resilience of their IT environments.
Strengthen Operational Resilience
Build IT infrastructure around availability and recovery, helping critical services remain resilient when technology fails or disruption occurs.
Protect Critical Data
Combine secure infrastructure with encrypted, immutable off-site backup and verified recovery procedures to help protect important organisational data. Simplify IT's Backup as a Service includes immutable storage, encryption, geographically separated UK facilities and recovery testing.
Improve Cyber Resilience
Strengthen security across networks, infrastructure and endpoints through proactive monitoring, vulnerability hotfix patching and managed security services.
Modernise Ageing Infrastructure
Replace legacy technology with secure, scalable infrastructure capable of supporting existing applications alongside future cloud and hybrid requirements.
IT Services for Financial Services Organisations
Managed IT Services
Expertise when you need it. Support when it matters.
Simplify IT can manage specific areas of your infrastructure or work alongside your internal IT team as an extension of your existing capability.
The managed service offering includes monitoring, incident management, change management and vulnerability hotfix patching, alongside options covering firewalls, servers and storage, endpoints, networks, business continuity and private cloud.
Reduce the day-to-day burden on your IT team while retaining the expertise and control your organisation needs.
Cyber Security
Protect the infrastructure behind your business.
Financial services organisations are attractive targets for cyber threats, making effective cyber resilience critical to protecting data, maintaining services and managing operational risk.
Simplify IT provides security capabilities covering managed firewalls, endpoints, networks, infrastructure, web and email protection, backed by proactive monitoring and vulnerability management.
Build security into your infrastructure rather than treating it as an afterthought.
Backup and Disaster Recovery
Being backed up isn't the same as being ready to recover.
Simplify IT's Backup as a Service combines immutable storage, end-to-end encryption, geographically separate UK data centres, access controls and documented recovery procedures to help protect critical data from cyberattack, accidental deletion and infrastructure failure.
Regular integrity testing provides further assurance that data can actually be recovered when required.
Protect. Test. Recover.
Private and Hybrid Cloud
The right cloud strategy isn't necessarily about moving everything to public cloud.
Simplify IT can help organisations build infrastructure around their security, performance, resilience and commercial requirements, including private cloud and co-location services.
For First Rate Exchange Services, Simplify IT and Bytes designed a private cloud architecture across two interconnected co-location facilities with hybrid-cloud capability, automated multi-site availability and infrastructure supporting PCI DSS requirements.
The right infrastructure. In the right place. For the right reasons.
Business Continuity and Operational Resilience
How confident are you that your recovery plan will actually work?
The Financial Conduct Authority currently places particular emphasis on firms being able to evidence resilience in practice, including their ability to respond to severe cyber disruption, manage third-party dependencies and understand remaining vulnerabilities and risks.
Simplify IT can help identify infrastructure vulnerabilities, develop recovery capabilities and implement resilient IT solutions designed to support business continuity. Its managed-service portfolio expressly includes business continuity services spanning vulnerability identification through to implementation of recovery plans.
Plan documented ✓
Recovery tested ?
Already Have an IT Team?
Great. We're here to strengthen them.
Simplify IT doesn't need to replace your existing IT function.
We can work alongside internal teams, providing additional technical expertise for infrastructure projects, migrations, security improvements, resilience initiatives or simply additional capacity when specialist skills are required.
That approach is already proven within financial services. Following its infrastructure transformation, First Rate Exchange Services retained Simplify IT to provide preventative maintenance, weekly health checks, change reviews, knowledge transfer and escalation support alongside its internal IT team.
Use our expertise when and where you need it.
Why Simplify IT for Healthcare?
Enterprise Capability. Small Business Agility.
Infrastructure expertise
From compute and storage to networking, virtualisation, cloud and backup, Simplify IT can take a joined-up approach to infrastructure.
Managed Services
Monitoring, incident management, vulnerability patching and change management can be combined with managed servers, storage, networks, firewalls, endpoints and business continuity services.
Resilience & Recovery
Immutable backup, private cloud and business continuity capabilities help organisations strengthen the technology behind critical services.
Proven financial services experience
The First Rate Exchange Services project provides strong evidence of Simplify IT operating within a financial services environment with PCI DSS, disaster recovery, security and availability requirements.
Case Study: Building a Resilient Hybrid Cloud for First Rate Exchange Services.
What we did, in a nutshell:
First Rate Exchange Services needed to replace ageing infrastructure while continuing to support legacy systems, enabling new services and maintaining PCI DSS requirements. Simplify IT and Bytes designed and delivered a private cloud solution spanning two interconnected co-location facilities, incorporating compute, storage, networking, backup, security and automated disaster recovery.
The resulting environment consolidated multiple systems onto a more scalable platform, improved automation and resilience, and helped First Rate Exchange Services meet its PCI DSS v4.0 compliance target ahead of schedule. Simplify IT continues to provide an ongoing managed service and specialist support to its internal IT function.
FAQ
How can Simplify IT help improve operational resilience?
We can help identify weaknesses within your infrastructure and develop solutions around availability, backup, recovery and business continuity. The objective is not simply to have a recovery plan, but to build an infrastructure environment capable of supporting it.
Can Simplify IT help with backup and ransomware protection?
Yes. Simplify IT provides managed off-site Backup as a Service incorporating immutable storage, end-to-end encryption, access controls, monitoring and verified recovery procedures.
Can Simplify IT work alongside an existing healthcare IT team?
Absolutely. Simplify IT can operate as an extension of your existing IT function, providing specialist expertise, additional capacity and escalation support when required. This can range from individual infrastructure projects through to ongoing monitoring, maintenance, change management and technical support.
Does Simplify IT have experience in financial services?
Yes. Simplify IT worked with Bytes to deliver a large infrastructure transformation for First Rate Exchange Services, incorporating private cloud, networking, security, storage, backup and automated disaster recovery while supporting PCI DSS requirements.
Resilience Isn't Just About Recovering. It's About Being Ready.
Financial services organisations can't eliminate every technology risk. But they can build infrastructure that is better prepared to withstand disruption, protect critical data and recover when incidents occur.
Simplify IT combines deep technical expertise with a flexible, practical approach to help financial services organisations build secure, resilient IT environments they can depend on.
