It helps protect against common cyber attacks
There are two levels of certification:
1. Cyber Essentials
Cyber Essentials is a simple but effective, Government backed scheme that will help you to protect your organisation, whatever its size, against a whole range of the most common cyber attacks.
Cyber attacks come in many shapes and sizes, but the vast majority are very basic in nature, carried out by relatively unskilled individuals. Our self-assessment option gives you protection against a wide variety of the most common cyber attacks. This is important because vulnerability to simple attacks can mark you out as target for more in-depth unwanted attention from cyber criminals and others.
Certification gives you peace of mind that your defences will protect against the vast majority of common cyber attacks simply because these attacks are looking for targets which do not have the Cyber Essentials technical controls in place.
2. Cyber Essentials Plus
Cyber Essentials Plus still has the Cyber Essentials trademark simplicity of approach, and the protections you need to put in place are the same, but for Cyber Essentials Plus a hands-on technical verification is carried out.
What are the benefits of Cyber Essentials?
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How do I get my business certified?
Cyber Essentials involves the use of five technical controls, specifically designed to prevent these attacks, which include malware, ransomware and phishing.
1. Assess & identify
Review of your IT infrastructure against the five technical controls:
- Secure internet connection
- Secure devices and software
- Control access to your data and services
- Protect against viruses and other malware
- Keep your devices and software up to date
2. Remediation plan
Following the IT Review against the five technical controls, a series of recommendations will be put forwards to ensure any areas not meeting the required level are resolved.
Once the recommendations have been approved we will schedule work and resolve the issues highlighted in the IT review ready for verification.
3. Verification
Once the five basic controls have been met to put you and your organisation on the path to better cyber security.
The next step is to choose your certification level, Cyber Essentials Basic or Cyber Essentials Plus.
If you choose the Plus level, an independent Cyber Security expert will review your IT network, complete a pen test and a security assessment.
4. Get your certification
Congratulations you have completed your Cyber Essentials certification. You will receive a signed certificate valid for 12 months to display in your office. You can share your certification with your suppliers and clients. You can also display it on your website.
After 12 months an assessment is made against GCHQ new security advice and technical controls for re-certification.
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