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Falanx Group Case Study

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Falanx Group protects and defends businesses against global security threats. Working with public sector companies, international corporations and local businesses, Falanx uses intelligence, vigilance, tools and technology to provide targeted threat prevention services to its clients.
Falanx, Investing in the West Midlands.

Based in the West Midlands, Falanx’s cyber security division is growing at an exponential rate and is cementing the region’s credentials as one of the nation’s centres for cyber security.

Why relocating

Last year, Falanx relocated to the West Midlands from Reading. Swapping a 900 sq ft office in Reading’s Green Park for a 4,500 sq ft office in the Custard Factory for the same price, the region has provided Falanx with the room and resources it needed to grow.

Why the West Midlands?

Falanx was struggling meet its ambition to grow due to the lack of available talent in the cyber security sector. The oversaturated tech hubs in the South of the country were unappealing to Falanx, which was attracted by Birmingham’s recent regeneration and the investment pouring into the region. On top of this, four leading universities in the surrounding area with courses that specialise in cyber security mean that young tech talent is available in abundance, setting it apart from other cities in the UK.

What the West Midlands has offered them

Since moving to the region less than a year ago, Falanx has tripled its staff count. For Jay Abbott, Executive Director of Falanx, the key reason for this has been the access to talent that the city has offered. According to Abbott, this has allowed Falanx cultivate its cyber security services and focus on “innovating technology in a fast-moving, cutting edge space”. It is also the city’s incredible value for money that has given the SME the flexibility it needed to expand its workforce and develop its business.

As business, professional and financial services firms flock to Birmingham in record numbers, Falanx is providing cyber security advice to some of the largest global corporations. For Abbott, being based in Birmingham has “opened a lot of doors that would not have ordinarily opened for us”, with Falanx finding itself becoming an expert in advising businesses on one of the biggest tech challenges: the incoming GDPR regulations.

In some ways, Abbott claims, Birmingham has re-discovered its industrial past but is doing this through the lens of technology in the information age. Falanx is determined to be part of this revolution.