Cyber Essentials Certification

What is Cyber Essentials?

It was developed in collaboration by the UK Government, and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), with the aim of reducing an organisations’ risk of attack by up to 80%.

The self-assessment gives you protection against a wide variety of cyber attacks. This is important because vulnerability to simple attacks can mark you out as a target for more in-depth unwanted attention from cyber criminals and others.

Cyber Essential Key Controls

• Access control
• Firewalls
• Malware protection
• Secure configuration and network management
• Updating software and patch tests

Benefits of certification

Not only does this certification demonstrate good cyber hygiene, but it can also help to build trust amongst your customers; as it proves you have taken the necessary steps to safeguard sensitive data.

Whilst learning cyber security essentials, you’ll learn the key controls to put in place to mitigate your business’ potential risk to phishing, hacking, password guessing, malicious employees and any untended mistakes, in addition to malware and viruses.

The Cyber Essentials certification is becoming increasingly required within supply chains and is compulsory