Cyber Essentials
Achieve compliance and safeguard your organisation from cyber threats with our expert services, ensuring your digital infrastructure remains secure and resilient.
Ensure Compliance and Security with Cyber Essentials
Cyber Essentials and its enhanced version, Cyber Essentials Plus, are government-backed schemes that help organisations guard against common cyber threats. Certification supports compliance, reduces the risk of breaches, and keeps your business running smoothly.
The process is accessible for businesses of all sizes, and our proactive Monitoring and Patching services help make it even easier.
Benefits for Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs)
Improved
Protection
Checks to ensure your cyber defences work in practice, not just on paper.
Builds
Trust
Certification shows customers you take cyber security seriously.
Competitive
Advantage
Some contracts require Cyber Essentials. Having it can help you win more work.
Lower Risk
of Attacks
Fixing common weak spots makes it much harder for hackers to get in.
Better Insurance Deals
Some insurers offer lower premiums or better cover if you’re certified.
Why Cyber Essentials Matters for Your Business
Cyber Essentials provides a framework to defend against cyber threats, reducing the risk of attacks by around 80%. It protects your data, boosts your reputation, and is often required for public sector contracts.
Adopting this scheme demonstrates your commitment to cyber security, fostering trust and unlocking new business opportunities. A valid Cyber Essentials certificate is increasingly required within supply chains and is compulsory for businesses bidding on public sector contracts.
Why not enhance your security and build client trust with our robust Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) solutions too!
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We Recommend Acquiring a Cyber Essentials Certificate if...
- Your business operates an IT infrastructure, has IT systems or holds data.
- You want to prove you're cyber secure and stand out against your competitors.
- You collect, store, and use customer or employee information online, where data loss could harm your reputation.
- You want to enhance security and save costs by preventing common cyber attacks.
- You aim to bid for public sector contracts and need to demonstrate compliance and security.
What are the 5 Key Cyber Essentials Controls?
Security
Firewalls
Secure
Configuration
Updating &
Patching
Access
Control
Malware
Protection
How We Help
Gap Analysis
We conduct a thorough assessment of your current Cyber Security environment, covering the 5 key Cyber Essentials controls. We will then follow-up with a bespoke report, identifying areas that require improvement to meet Cyber Essentials standards.
Implementation Support
Our experts provide hands-on assistance to implement the necessary controls, including secure configuration, access control, and patch management.
Certification Assistance
We guide you through the certification process, ensuring all requirements are met and complete the self-assessment questionnaire on your behalf. Saving you time and the worry of trying to understand technical jargon.
Continuous Monitoring
We understand that Cyber security is an ongoing effort. So we offer continuous monitoring and support to keep your systems secure and up-to-date and help you renew your certification in the future.
What is Cyber Essentials Plus?
Plus includes all the requirements of the basic Cyber Essentials certification but with an added layer of assurance. Instead of relying solely on a self-assessment questionnaire, Cyber Essentials Plus involves:
- Independent testing of your systems by a qualified assessor.
- Vulnerability scans to identify weaknesses.
- Simulated attacks to test defences in real-world scenarios.
It's a thorough, hands-on validation of Cyber Security, and you can read more about our own Cyber Essentials Plus journey below!
Cyber Essentials vs Cyber Essentials Plus
Cyber Essentials is a great starting point for improving your organisation’s cyber security, offering a simple, self-assessed way to protect against common threats.
Cyber Essentials Plus builds on this with a more in-depth, hands-on audit by a qualified assessor, giving you greater assurance and credibility. We're proud to say that we're Cyber Essentials Plus accredited ourselves!
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