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Cyber Essentials Certification
Benefits of Cyber Essentials
Free Cyber Insurance Cover
Completing the Cyber Essentials certification through us means you could be eligible for free Cyber Insurance cover, saving you up to £25,000 and helping to protect your business in the digital age.
Download your free Cyber Essentials preparation pack!
Download your copy of the Cyber Essentials questionnaire and requirements to give you everything you need to prepare for your self-assessment submission.
What you get as part of this free download:
- Excel worksheet with the Cyber Essentials self-assessment questions you can use as a template to start capturing your responses in preparation for submitting your self-assessment.
- Printable Booklet versions of the Cyber Essentials self-assessment checklist questions you can use to prepare for certification.
- Cyber Essentials further guidance and technical control requirements booklet.
What is Cyber Essentials?
Cyber Essentials is a UK government-backed scheme which is designed to protect organisations of any size or sector from 80% of common cyber threats. The Cyber Essentials scheme covers 5 main technical controls which are designed to protect; your organisations’ devices, internet connection, data, and services. The certification provides many benefits as it tightens cyber security within an organisation and opens new business opportunities, providing your organisation with a competitive advantage.
CS Risk Management is a certification body which means our cyber security consultants will work with you to achieve the Cyber Essentials certification from start to finish. There are 2 levels to certification: Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus. Our consultants will provide you with full-support and guidance throughout the process, and will issue you your Cyber Essentials certificate, if you obtain a pass.
Cyber Essentials Packages
CS Risk offer three kinds of Cyber Essentials compliance assessments to help your business get Cyber Essentials certified. Choose a straightforward self assessment for quick Cyber Essentials accreditation at a flat rate of £310. For Cyber Essentials guidance and an in depth analysis of the areas to improve to gain certification by one of our Cyber Essentials consultants, choose the supported option. Or if you're bidding for advanced government contracts and require an on-site vulnerability scan and report of all major non-compliance areas, choose Cyber Essentials Plus.
Cyber Essentials Self-Assessment
£310.00
Straightforward online self-assessment process
Protect your organisation from up to 80% of IT security breaches
3-5 working day assessment turnaround time
We will provide you with additional expertise if necessary
Electronic compliance report and certificate if you obtain a pass
Free Cyber Liability Insurance
*Subject to eligibility
Supported Cyber Essentials Self-Assessment
£995.00
Face-to-face or video conference meeting to highlight gaps you need to address to be compliant with the scheme
Protect your organisation from up to 80% of IT security breaches
Expert advice from our dedicated Cyber Essentials team
Support to answer all self-assessment questions
Electronic compliance report and certificate if you obtain a pass
Free Cyber Liability Insurance
*Subject to eligibility
Cyber Essentials Plus
£1,995.00
On-site security vulnerability assessment by our experienced external auditors
Meet security requirements of advanced government contracts
Includes cyber essentials self assessment
We will issue you a report of our findings highlighting any major scheme non-compliances
Full assessment report and cyber essentials plus certificate issued
Free Cyber Liability Insurance
*Subject to eligibility
Learn more about Cyber Essentials: The 5 security controls.
1. Use of Firewalls
You should use a firewall to protect your internet connection. This is so that incoming traffic can be analysed to establish whether or not it should be allowed onto your organisaton’s network.
2. Secure configuration
Ensure you are choosing the most secure settings on your new devices and software. You can start by simply removing accounts or services which you do not use within your business. Passwords which are considered hard for others to guess are an effective way to prevent unauthorised individuals from accessing your devices.
3. Control User Access
To minimize damage that can be done in event of an account being stolen, employees should only have access to software, settings or services that they need to perform their job role. Administrator privileges should only been given to those that need them.
4. Anti-Malware
Malicious software can find its way onto a computer by opening an infected email or even browsing unsafe websites. Anti-malware approaches should be used such as an anti virus software, or limiting the applications allowed on staff devices.
5. Patching
It is important that any devices within your organisation are kept up to date at all times. This entails regular updates on operating systems or installed apps. Developers regularly release updates to fix security vulnerabilities.
Why trust us?...
Over 200 certificates issued
Many of our clients re-certify
with us each year
Certification body for cyber essentials
since the scheme was launched in 2014
Delivered by an award-winning team
of security professionals
What our customers are saying...
“We engaged CS Risk Management to make the Cyber Essentials process easy and they did just that. The workshop session was invaluable to enable us to understand what was mandatory and what was less important but good practice. Maritz could not have been more helpful. He readily understood our set-up, took a pragmatic view, and assisted us focus on the relatively small number of items that needed attention. He guided us through the process and responded to all queries quickly (and patiently). The result being that when we eventually submitted our declaration for certification it was processed and approved within 24 hours. I have no hesitation in recommending CS Risk Management. Thank you.”
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Dave Mailer
“The UK Government Scheme of Cyber Essentials offers a rigorous way to independently look at both the Physical and Logical controls of the IT. IASME offer the small and medium enterprises both cost effective and good value for money methods to undertake the necessary checks at a frequency that is not a burden. It is a very useful exercise as the business gets direct feedback if anything needs to be addressed or sorted prior to certification for the good of the company and its’ customers. CS Risk Management offered for us the right skills and aptitude to assess a complex business like ours and we have been pleased for the last five years in every interaction, advice and audits they have done on our Cyber Essentials Certification.”
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Andrew D-M.
“CS Risk Management recently completed our cyber essentials certification and made the process as simple and pain-free as possible from start to finish. CS Risk provided a professional service and I would be happy to recommend. Thank you.”
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