Assure / Cyber Essentials
Get ready for Cyber Essentials.
We help organisations prepare their technology, policies and working practices for Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus — building a practical security foundation in the process.
Talk to usMore than completing a questionnaire.
Cyber Essentials requires you to understand the systems and devices within scope and how the relevant security controls are applied.
We help make sure the environment behind your answers is in the right state — reviewing technical controls, addressing gaps and putting appropriate policies and processes around the way security is managed.
The aim isn't simply to produce the right answers. It's to make sure those answers reflect what your organisation actually does.
What getting ready involves.
Preparation can involve the technology itself, the processes around it and the information needed to describe your environment accurately.
You may only need your Microsoft 365 environment reviewed and technical gaps addressed. You may already have the technology in place but need appropriate policies and processes. Or you may want help bringing everything together ahead of certification.
We can work with the parts you need.
Why Cyber Essentials?
Certification may be a customer or contractual requirement, a way to demonstrate good security practice, or simply a useful point from which to establish a more consistent security foundation.
Protect
Put fundamental technical controls in place to reduce exposure to common cyber threats.
Demonstrate
Give customers and partners recognised assurance that your organisation takes security seriously.
Qualify
Meet Cyber Essentials requirements where certification is required by a customer, supply chain or contract.
Build
Establish a practical security foundation that your organisation can maintain and build on as it grows.
Cyber Essentials or Cyber Essentials Plus?
Cyber Essentials
Cyber Essentials uses a verified self-assessment to demonstrate that the five technical controls required by the scheme are in place across the agreed scope.
Cyber Essentials Plus
Cyber Essentials Plus is based on the same technical requirements, with additional independent testing to verify that the controls are implemented effectively within the organisation.
Build beyond the certificate.
Cyber Essentials provides a useful, recognised security baseline, but the work behind it should have value beyond achieving certification.
A consistently configured environment, clear security policies and repeatable processes give your organisation a foundation that is easier to manage, easier to explain to customers and easier to build on as your requirements grow.
Ready for assessment
Get your organisation ready for Cyber Essentials.
iSolid can help prepare your organisation for assessment and support you in addressing questions or issues identified during the certification process. Certification itself is carried out independently by an authorised Cyber Essentials Certification Body.
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