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Understand the requirements
We help you understand the current Cyber Essentials requirements and how they apply to your organisation, systems and scope.
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Cyber Essentials & Cyber Essentials Plus
Expert-led guidance and consultancy to help your organisation achieve Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certification, ensuring you meet the required cybersecurity standards and protect your organisation, data and services.
Understanding Cyber Essentials
Get your organisation ready for Cyber Essentials certification.
Cyber Essentials provides a structured framework for implementing fundamental cybersecurity controls. The scheme is backed by the NCSC and helps organisations demonstrate their commitment to basic cybersecurity hygiene.
We combine automated tooling, manual investigation and real-world attack techniques to validate vulnerabilities, assess their impact and identify attack paths. Cyber Essentials provides additional assurance through defined controls, self-assessment, and independent verification for Cyber Essentials Plus.
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A practical route to stronger baseline security.
Cyber Essentials helps organisations protect against common cyber threats through five core technical controls. We provide independent readiness reviews and practical consultancy to help you understand the requirements, address gaps and prepare for certification.
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Review your readiness
We review your environment against the requirements, identify gaps and explain what needs to be addressed before you begin the certification process.
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Prepare for Cyber Essentials
Cyber Essentials is based on a verified self-assessment covering the scheme's technical requirements. We can help your team understand the questions, evidence the current position and address issues before submission.
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Prepare for Cyber Essentials Plus
Cyber Essentials Plus uses the same technical requirements but adds independent technical verification. We can review your readiness and help identify issues before the formal CE+ assessment.
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Address gaps before assessment
Where our review identifies weaknesses, we provide practical guidance to help your team understand and address the underlying security issues before assessment.
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Maintain your certification
Cyber Essentials certification is renewed annually. Regular security reviews can help you maintain the required controls as your systems, users and environment change.
Who needs Cyber Essentials?
When certification supports your security and your business.
Cyber Essentials is relevant to organisations looking to strengthen their protection against common cyber threats, demonstrate a baseline level of security or meet customer, contractual or procurement requirements. We help you understand what is required and prepare your organisation for certification.
- Organisations looking to improve their baseline security
- Businesses required to hold Cyber Essentials certification
- Suppliers meeting customer or contractual requirements
- Organisations seeking Cyber Essentials Plus assurance
Not sure whether you are ready? We can review your environment against the requirements, identify gaps and provide practical guidance to help you prepare for certification.
Cyber Essentials certification
Two levels of security assurance.
Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus are UK Government-backed certification schemes designed to help organisations protect against common cyber threats and demonstrate their baseline security controls.
Cyber Essentials is a certification scheme based on five core technical controls designed to protect organisations against common cyber threats. It uses a verified self-assessment to establish whether your organisation meets the current requirements.
We review your environment against the requirements, identify gaps and provide practical consultancy to help you prepare for certification.
Cyber Essentials Plus uses the same five core technical controls as Cyber Essentials, but adds independent technical verification of your organisation's security controls. This provides a higher level of assurance that the required protections are working in practice.
We assess your readiness, identify potential issues and provide practical consultancy to help you prepare for the independent technical assessment.
Our deliverables
Practical support from readiness to certification.
Our consultancy gives you a clear view of your readiness, the gaps that need attention and the practical steps required before your Cyber Essentials or Cyber Essentials Plus assessment.
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Readiness Assessment
An independent review of your environment against the Cyber Essentials requirements, identifying gaps and areas requiring attention before certification.
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Practical Consultancy
Clear technical guidance to help your team understand and address identified gaps, with support focused on preparing your organisation for assessment.
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Assessment Preparation
Preparation for Cyber Essentials or Cyber Essentials Plus, including readiness checks and guidance ahead of the formal certification assessment.
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