Cyber Essentials
Cyber Essentials is a UK-government backed certification scheme designed to help organisations protect themselves against common online threats.
Cyber essentials provide
A set of standard technical controls that businesses of all sizes can implement to safeguard their digital assets and data. By achieving Cyber Essentials certification, organisations demonstrate their commitment to cybersecurity, enhancing their reputation and trustworthiness among customers and partners.
Cyber Essentials relies on a self-certification process, but due to its complexity many businesses choose to partner with an MSP consultancy partner to help them build cyber policy documents, measure vulnerabilities, and implement the necessary security measures to achieve the certification.
entrustIT are an ISO27001 certified company and have provided consultancy for Cyber Essentials since the framework’s launch in 2014.
Who needs Cyber Essentials?
A cyber attack can impact businesses regardless of size, industry, or location. When they happen, they can be devastating. Therefore, every business stands to gain from attaining Cyber Essentials.
Many insurance companies now require Cyber Essentials as a baseline for cyber cover.
Of UK businesses report that cyber essentials is a requirement in all their contracts going in to 2024.
Of respondents agreed that their business competitiveness increased after certification.
Cyber Essentials Plus
If you’re a large organisation (above 250 employees) or in a regulated industry such as Financial Services and Legal Services, we recommend you go a step further and reach out for Cyber Essentials Plus.
Cyber Essentials Plus builds on the requirements of Cyber Essentials and is significantly more stringent. You’ll be required to be externally audited by a third party, as well as have tougher controls on access, firewalls, asset management, and vulnerability scanning –
among others.
Cyber Essentials Plus is typically a multi-month project with a larger investment. However, according to the NCSC, companies with Cyber Essentials Plus are 80% less likely to make a cyber insurance claim than those without.
Protect your business
Our expert consultants understand what is involved to attain the framework. We’ll give you advice and templates to get you started with cyber security policies.
We’ll also provide you with the cyber security tools necessary to protect your business from even the most sophisticated threats, including email protection, endpoint protection, and backup.
When you’re ready, we’ll even fill out the paperwork for you and co-ordinate your application with IASME.
CASE STUDY
Mr Mulligans
Faced with insufficient resource to conduct in person site visits to nationwide sites, Mr Mulligans needed help implementing technology required across their sites.
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The team at entrustIT were so easy to deal with. They were clear in what they would be doing for each stage of our projects and managed the entire process to ensure that we hit our targets on-time and on budget.”
Bridget Jackson, Group IT Manager & Data Protection Officer
Mr Mulligans
