Cyber Essentials Scheme
Cyber Essentials: Overview
Cyber Essentials is a Government-backed, industry-supported scheme to help organisations protect themselves against common online threats.
Cyber Essentials is suitable for all organisations, of any size, in any sector.
Why should your organisation consider Cyber Essentials certification?
Cyber Essentials is a great way for organisations to build a basic risk management system into their infrastructure. The scheme creates an effective and affordable opportunity for organisations to bring their systems, their workforce and their processes up to industry best standard.
Added to that, if your organisation regularly (or are considering) tendering for public authority or governement contracts, the Cyber Essentials scheme is often a prerequisite for those bids.
Lastly, having the Cyber Essentials logo on your website and all of your marketing not only enhances your organisation’s reputation but gives your clients confidence in you and your services.
Cyber Essentials will…
- Reassure customers/clients that you are working to secure your IT against cyber attack.
- Attract new business with the promise you have cyber security measures in place.
- Give a clear picture of your organisation’s cyber security level.
- Grow business as some Government contracts require Cyber Essentials certification.
How do we help you achieve Cyber Essentials certification?
Cyber Fortified project manage the entire process.
We help organisations achieve the necessary standards, provide the appropriate evidence and assist demonstrate suitability for the Cyber Essentials scheme. Throughout the auditing process, you will have access to our entire support team, as well as our lead auditors.
How long does the auditing process last?
As with any auditing and certification process, a lot will depend on your organisation and the availability of your key staff.
We will normally advise a 2-4 weeks period, to complete the audit in full.
Ultimately, the key to any certification preparation is to work methodically through the standard and only go for certification once everything is in place. Historically, too many companies rush to get certification and this results in an unnecessarily and avoidable costly mistakes.
Next Steps
We always recommend a scoping call to discuss the company and how we move forward with the audit and where you can ask our team any questions ahead of starting the auditing work.
Please use the booking calendar, below, to schedule your scoping call: