Plain-English cyber security and compliance for schools and trusts — continuous oversight of the tools you already use, mapped to the DfE standards and RPA cyber cover, with governor-ready evidence built in.
All integrations run on the same connector engine — each platform feeds the same readiness score and plain-English findings.
Read-only access · set up in minutes · nothing installed on your devices.
Most tools create alerts. Ceidwad creates understanding — and the evidence to back it up — bringing monitoring, your connected platforms and compliance into one picture anyone can act on.
We watch your systems around the clock and surface what's changed — so risks are caught early, not after an incident.
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.
Every finding comes with a clear explanation and a recommended action. No jargon, no decoding required.
A cyber expert on demand. Ask any question and get a school-specific answer your whole team can understand.
One-click reports your governors and trustees can actually read — built for leadership meetings, not analysts.
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 →Not an enterprise SOC tool with a school logo bolted on. Ceidwad is built around UK education — the guidance you answer to, the budgets you work within, and the people who use it.
Plenty of tools will scan your network and hand your IT team a list of problems. That's useful — but it isn't the same as knowing where you stand, or what to do about it. Here's where Ceidwad is different.
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 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.
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.
Because Ceidwad is a small, independent, founder-led business — not a venture-backed vendor with investor margins and an enterprise sales team to fund. It's built by someone who works in cyber security and has worked in schools, so it's priced for the people who actually have to sign the invoice. A fair price that reflects what it costs to run — not what we think we could get away with. We'd rather protect a thousand schools properly than a handful at enterprise rates.
Your plan is set by your school type — trusts are covered by the Multi-Academy Trust plan. Only registered UK schools and colleges can sign 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