What we take. What we decline.

US entity (Scottsdale, Arizona). Direct EOR entity. USD invoicing, Net-15.

No US privacy regime imposes data localisation. Our MSA carries CCPA/CPRA service-provider clauses and an addendum covering the twenty state comprehensive privacy regimes now in force.

US federal, defense, ITAR/EAR-controlled and CUI-touching work

US-person restrictions are structural rather than procedural. Serving this properly would require a separate US-cleared subsidiary, which we do not have and are not building.

CMMC readiness

Phase II was suspended with immediate effect on 13 July 2026 pending review, with no announced restart date. Building against it now would be speculative.

Engagements requiring access to protected health information

HIPAA itself does not prohibit offshore processing under a business associate agreement, but many payer and provider contracts ban it outright, and HIPAA's enforcement reach over an Indian entity is untested. We scope healthcare engagements as no-PHI-in-scope, which usually removes most of the value — so we will normally tell you to use someone onshore.

UAE presence (Dubai) with a direct EOR entity. Mainland licensing under review — free-zone-only structures fail the qualifying-income test once mainland client revenue is material.

Federal PDPL has published no adequacy list and its Executive Regulations remain unissued, so we treat the federal transfer regime as under-specified rather than permissive. DIFC and ADGM are materially stricter: neither lists India as an adequate jurisdiction, so Article 42 safeguards and a documented recipient-jurisdiction assessment apply where a free-zone entity is in scope.

Anything touching health data

UAE law prohibits health data being stored, processed, generated or transferred outside the country. Our engineering is delivered from Mumbai, so there is no scoping arrangement that fixes this.

Dubai government data and DESC-regulated pipelines requiring in-country processing

DESC ISR v3 requires in-country processing for these. We will not propose a workaround for a residency requirement.

Financial-services customer data required to be stored in-country

Same reason: a hard localisation requirement that offshore delivery cannot satisfy.

Saudi Arabia as a primary market

NCA ECC-2's tiered model, in-Kingdom presence expectations and localisation make it a Riyadh-entity market. We take KSA only as pull-through from a UAE client with a Saudi subsidiary, delivered under the UAE contract.

No UK entity, deliberately. B2B services from a non-UK supplier are handled by the customer under the VAT reverse charge, so no UK VAT registration is required. We can contract under English law with English courts on request.

India is not on the UK adequacy list, so transfers run on the UK IDTA — or the Addendum to the EU SCCs — with a documented Transfer Risk Assessment. The ICO's updated international transfer guidance took effect 5 February 2026.

All UK public-sector and CNI work

Public contracts require contractual UK data residency covering support escalation, not merely UK hosting. G-Cloud 15 makes Cyber Essentials Plus mandatory for cloud suppliers. We hold neither, and our India-based engineers cannot obtain SC clearance, which requires roughly five years of UK residency.

CHECK IT Health Checks and anything touching a PSN-connected body

Every tester must hold SC clearance and the company must be NCSC-approved. This is structurally impossible from Mumbai, so we refer it rather than imply we can.

Issuing Cyber Essentials or Cyber Essentials Plus certificates

Certificates come only from an IASME-licensed certification body. We are not one — checkable in IASME's public directory — so we prepare you and introduce you to one.

Penetration testing under our own name

We hold no CREST or CHECK accreditation. PPN 014 makes CREST a requirement for government testing. We refer a named accredited partner and disclose the subcontract in writing.

Managed services framed as ongoing administration

The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill defines a relevant managed service provider to include firms providing ongoing support, maintenance, monitoring or active administration of a customer's systems accessed remotely. We contract UK delivery as fixed-scope projects to stay outside that definition — and we will revisit our own position as our headcount approaches the 50-employee threshold.

No EU establishment, deliberately. Article 196 reverse charge means the B2B customer self-accounts for VAT, so no registration is required. EU work is delivered as a fixed-scope engineering project from our US entity.

India has no EU adequacy decision, and the published timeline puts a possible decision no earlier than 2028–29. Any engagement touching EU personal data therefore needs an Article 28 processor agreement, SCC Module 2 or 3, a documented Transfer Impact Assessment and supplementary measures. We work from pseudonymised or synthetic data in development environments, which is correct practice anyway and collapses most of the question.

Anything framed as a managed security service

NIS2 Article 26(3) requires a non-EU entity offering in-scope services in the Union — explicitly including managed security services — to designate a representative in a Member State, whose authority then becomes our lead supervisor for incident notification and compliance assessment. Designation does not shield us from direct liability. No single engagement is worth acquiring a supervisory regime, so anything with ongoing security administration is declined and offered as a fixed-scope Remediation Pod instead.

EU AI Act high-risk readiness

The obligations were deferred to December 2027 and August 2028. Only Article 50 transparency and Article 4 AI literacy are live, and nobody needs a programme for a disclosure label. We will revisit in 2027.

Managed EOR through our own entities

We hold direct EOR entities in India, the UAE and the USA only. EU employment runs through partners, which means it is not a one-contract-one-invoice engagement and we will say so.

Work requiring delivery in German, French, Italian, Dutch or Spanish

We have no non-English sales or delivery capability, and our AEO/SEO/GEO practice does not operate in those languages. NIS2 and CRA buying frequently happens in them.

DORA engagements

The market is barbelled between €200k–€2M large-firm programmes and thin-credibility freelancers, with no comfortable middle, and threat-led penetration testing requires TIBER-EU-accredited red teams. Where you are an ICT third party to a DORA entity, that is a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 conversation and we can help with it.

We never audit, attest or certify

Only a licensed CPA firm can attest SOC 2. Only a UKAS- or ANAB-accredited body can certify ISO 27001 or ISO 42001. Only an IASME-licensed body issues Cyber Essentials. And under ISO/IEC 17021 the body that certifies you is barred from having consulted you — which is precisely why the implementation work is available to us. We hold no accreditations, and in this lane that is the entry ticket, not a gap.

We take no fee from any auditor

withRemote receives no fee, commission, rebate or other consideration from any auditor or certification body to which it refers a client, and confirms this in writing to both the client and the auditor.

No detection, no response, no SLA

We sell no monitoring, no managed detection, no security operations centre and no incident response retainer, and we carry no availability or response duty. Turnaround targets on each service page are targets, not guarantees.

Your approver merges every change

On any engagement touching your systems, we write the change and your named approver merges it, inside your change window, with a documented rollback. Our liability for business interruption arising from changes you approved is excluded — because the dominant risk on remediation work is an outage, not a breach.

No testing without written authorisation

No production testing proceeds without signed Rules of Engagement and a countersigned authorisation letter from a verified asset owner, plus third-party authorisation where the systems sit with a cloud provider. Without that paperwork, testing is a criminal offence in every jurisdiction we operate in, regardless of intent.

We disclose our own jurisdiction

Engineering is delivered from Mumbai. India's CERT-In directions impose a six-hour incident reporting duty and in-country log retention on Indian entities, which is why client findings, logs and evidence live in a client-controlled tenant that we access rather than on our systems. We disclose this in the MSA rather than let you discover it.

One price list, priced in USD

We publish one set of prices and do not run a per-market rate card. Invoicing is in USD with no FX surcharge and the rate is fixed for the contract term. GCC engagements commonly settle on longer terms than our standard Net-15 and we will agree that up front rather than pretend otherwise.

Because neither is needed and both would cost us money for no commercial gain. UK B2B services from a non-UK supplier are handled by the customer under the VAT reverse charge; the EU equivalent is the Article 196 reverse charge. Neither requires us to register. We can contract under English law with English courts where a UK client wants that, and we hold a GBP receiving account for optics — but incorporating would create a taxable presence the reverse charge currently avoids.

Engineering is delivered from Mumbai. Commercial and account management sit in Scottsdale, Toronto and Dubai depending on your market. We state this before you ask because every serious procurement process asks it, and because it determines what we can and cannot take — UK public sector, US federal and UAE health data are all closed to us for exactly this reason.

India has no adequacy decision from the EU or the UK, so UK engagements run on the UK IDTA with a documented Transfer Risk Assessment, and EU engagements on SCC Module 2 or 3 with a Transfer Impact Assessment and supplementary measures. Where a DIFC or ADGM entity is in scope, neither free zone lists India as adequate, so Article 42 safeguards apply. In practice we prefer to design the problem away: client findings, logs and evidence live in a client-controlled tenant we access, and development work uses pseudonymised or synthetic data.

Six reasons, and we would rather be straight about them: every deal carries a per-deal legal cost no other market imposes; NIS2 Article 26(3) forces an EU representative and a Member-State supervisor the moment anything is framed as managed security services; there are 27 fragmented national regimes and the Commission referred Ireland, Spain, France and the Netherlands to the CJEU in July 2026 for failing to transpose; the EU AI Act trigger moved sixteen months; and we operate in English only while NIS2 and CRA buying often happens in German, French, Italian, Dutch or Spanish. We take Cyber Resilience Act product readiness and decline the rest.

No. We publish one price list in USD, with no FX surcharge and the rate fixed for the contract term. Four price lists would just be a discounting instruction for whichever buyer finds the cheapest page, and answer engines would surface the lowest one. Where a market genuinely differs we change the package, not the rate card — for example, GCC engagements carry an on-site account management line because local delivery expectations and payment terms differ, not because the day rate does.

No, and this is a structural answer rather than a sales-effort one. Public contracts require contractual UK data residency covering support escalation, G-Cloud 15 makes Cyber Essentials Plus mandatory for cloud suppliers, and CHECK testing requires SC-cleared UK-resident staff — clearance needs roughly five years of UK residency, which our India-based engineers cannot meet. Where a UK prime holds those credentials we are happy to be the remediation and build bench underneath them.

Certification of withRemote itself against ISO 27001, which is in progress; a UK entity with UK-resident delivery staff, which would open parts of the UK public-sector conversation; and a mainland UAE licence, which is under review. We will update this page when each lands rather than implying it already has.