Govern & Assure
Cyber Essentials
Cyber Essentials support from readiness and remediation through to assessment, certification, and ongoing maintenance.
- A clear scope
- Readiness before submission
- A practical remediation list
- Support through assessment
- Cyber Essentials Plus preparation
Your route to Cyber Essentials compliance
Scoping
Cyber Essentials scoping to define what your certification will cover and establish a clear boundary for the assessment.
Gap Analysis & Readiness
Cyber Essentials gap analysis and readiness support to identify anything that could prevent certification and give you a clear plan to address it before assessment.
Assessments
Cyber Essentials assessments covering scoping, readiness, remediation, certification, and Cyber Essentials Plus technical testing.
Ongoing Support
Cyber Essentials renews every year and the requirements move. Stay certifiable through the year instead of rebuilding your position each renewal.
Cyber Essentials gives organisations a clear baseline for protecting against common cyber attacks. It focuses on five technical control areas and gives you a practical way to check that the basics are in place, rather than relying on assumptions about how securely your environment is configured.
For many organisations, certification is also a useful way to demonstrate that baseline to customers, partners, and supply chains. It can support tender requirements, provide a recognised level of cyber assurance, and make security easier to evidence when someone asks how you protect your systems.
We help you understand the scope, work through the assessment questions, identify where your current configurations or controls fall short, and support remediation before the assessment is submitted. If you need the higher-assurance Cyber Essentials Plus route, we also help you prepare for the additional technical testing.
Certification is not the end of the work. The controls still need to remain effective as users, devices, software, and infrastructure change. We can stay involved with annual renewal, control reviews, and broader risk or compliance activity where you need ongoing support.
Get a quote for Cyber Essentials
Tell us your scope and objectives, and we’ll come back with a clear, fixed proposal, usually the same working day.
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What you get
A clear scope
We help you work out which users, devices, systems, and services need to be included before you start the assessment.
Readiness before submission
We work through the current Cyber Essentials requirements with you and identify issues before they become assessment problems.
A practical remediation list
Where gaps exist, we explain what needs to change and help your team prioritise the fixes required for certification.
Support through assessment
We help you work through the assessment process, respond to issues, and get the evidence and answers into the right shape.
Cyber Essentials Plus preparation
Where you are progressing to Cyber Essentials Plus, we help you prepare the environment for the additional technical assessment.
Support beyond certification
We can help you keep the underlying controls current, prepare for renewal, and connect Cyber Essentials to wider risk and compliance work.
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers to what prospective clients ask us most.
What is the difference between Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus?
Both are based on the same five technical control areas. Cyber Essentials is based on a verified self-assessment, while Cyber Essentials Plus adds independent technical testing and therefore provides a higher level of assurance.
Do we need Cyber Essentials certification?
Not every organisation is required to have it. Some pursue Cyber Essentials because a customer, contract, or tender expects it; others use it to establish and demonstrate a recognised baseline of cybersecurity.
For organisations selling to other businesses or working in supply chains, certification can also make assurance conversations easier.
We have not done Cyber Essentials before. Where do we start?
Start with scope and readiness. We help you understand what needs to be included, work through the assessment questions, and identify anything that should be fixed before you submit.
What happens if we do not meet one of the requirements?
Readiness work is designed to identify issues early. Where something does arise during assessment, we explain what needs to change and help you work through the corrective action.
Do we need Cyber Essentials Plus?
That depends on what you are trying to achieve. Cyber Essentials Plus provides stronger assurance because it adds technical testing, and it may be required by a customer, contract, or other stakeholder. If you are unsure which level is appropriate, we can help you decide before you start.
What if certification is not the right fit for us?
You do not need to pursue certification to improve your security. If Cyber Essentials is not the right objective, we can help you take a broader, risk-based view of your controls, identify weaknesses, and prioritise improvements without forcing the work into a certification programme.
Not sure which route makes sense? Talk to us, and we will help you work it out.
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