Cyber governance and assurance for UK education — compliance tracked, risks checked, evidence ready. Explained simply for schools and trusts.
Ceidwad reads the security posture of your existing platforms — securely and read-only — and feeds it all into one readiness score and plain-English findings.
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Most tools create alerts. Ceidwad creates understanding — and the evidence to back it up — bringing your daily checks, your connected platforms and compliance into one picture anyone can act on. It sits alongside whoever runs your IT; it does not replace them.
We re-check your email and website protection every morning and tell you exactly what changed, and what it means. It's your posture we watch, not your traffic — we don't detect or block attacks, and we won't pretend to.
Ceidwad reads the security settings of the tools you already use and tells you, in plain terms, exactly what to tighten and why.
Live progress against Cyber Essentials, the DfE digital standards and your RPA cyber-cover conditions — with the evidence ready to show.
Mail check tells you whether someone could send email pretending to be your school — SPF, DKIM and DMARC — and Web check does the same for your site's certificates and headers. Both re-run every morning.
A cyber expert on demand. Ask any question and get a school-specific answer your whole team can understand.
A ready-made plan for when something goes wrong — who does what, and in what order — so a bad day doesn't become a crisis. Prepared for your school, before you need it.
We translate the technical noise into language a headteacher, governor or CFO can act on with confidence.
Technically accurate. Practically useless to most people in the room.
Toggle a few of the basics every school should have, and watch your readiness score respond in real time. It's the same logic that runs behind your real, 40-plus-check assessment — just simplified.
An estimate. Your real score runs on 40+ live checks.
Run the full assessment →Ceidwad is built around UK education from the ground up — the guidance you answer to, the budgets you work within, and the people who actually use it.
One screen your leadership team and governors can read in 60 seconds. No jargon, no dashboards to decode — just where you stand and what to do next.
Ask anything — from "are we ready for Cyber Essentials?" to "what does this letter from our insurer mean?" — and get a clear, school-specific answer.
A free scanner hands your IT team a list. A tiered vendor makes you climb paid packages to unlock the basics. Ceidwad gives you the whole picture — and the plan for when something goes wrong — in every plan, at one flat price.
Already running a free scanner, or your firewall's alerts? Keep them. Ceidwad is the layer above — it makes sense of the whole picture, and gives your leadership the board-ready view and the plan for when something goes wrong.
One published annual price by school type — no hidden quotes. A multi-academy trust is priced per academy, each school at its own rate, with a volume discount that grows as your trust does — on a single invoice. No setup fees, no per-user pricing, no auto-renew trap.
Your plan is set by your school type — trusts are covered by the Multi-Academy Trust plan. Only registered UK schools and colleges can request access, and we confirm your email address before anything is set up. Support is by email, and we aim to reply within two working days.
The things school leaders and IT teams ask us most.
Take the free assessment. We'll show you exactly where you stand and leave you with a plain-English plan — whether or not you choose Ceidwad.
Ceidwad — Welsh for guardian