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We work with your business to demonstrate your commitment to cyber security and support you in gaining Cyber Essentials accreditation.
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What is Cyber Essentials?
The Cyber Essentials certificate is a Government initiative to certify businesses, ultimately inspiring confidence in customers and the wider industry that businesses align with cybersecurity best practices.
Cyber Essentials accreditation is a requirement for businesses looking to transact with UK government agencies on contracts which involve handling sensitive data or technical services.
Getting accredited with CloudTech24 takes the stress out of the Cyber Essentials certification process.
Achieving Cyber Essentials compliance demonstrates to existing and potential clients that your business takes cyber security seriously and that it has invested in adequate and validated cyber security protection against modern cyber threats.
Why use CloudTech24 for your Cyber Essentials certification?
CloudTech24 are an approved Cyber Essentials accreditation provider. We work with your business to demonstrate your commitment to cyber security and certification, ensuring that you meet the required standards for Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus.
We break down the technical assurance framework to validate the measures your business has taken against the Cyber Essentials (CE) assessment standards, ensuring your business is aligned.
CloudTech24 cannot guarantee Cyber Essentials for your business without understanding your current IT infrastructure, policies and cyber security protection.
Our team are expert on the elements required to pass. They are here to support you through the application process and work with your business to identify gaps.
Our advisory, consulting services and our managed solutions can help ensure that you align with the requirements of Cyber Essentials.
What are the 5 core areas of Cyber Essentials?
The Cyber Essentials assessment focuses on the 5 basic security controls of cyber security, these 5 controls are:
- Boundary firewalls and Internet gateways
- Secure configuration
- Access control
- Malware protection
- Patch management
Frequently Asked Questions about Cyber Essentials Certification
CloudTech24 receives lots of questions about our CE assessments, supporting services and reducing cyber-attacks. Please see below for some common cyber essentials FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions):
What is Cyber Essentials?
Cyber Essentials is a simple and effective government-supported scheme that will help protect your organisation and certify that you have taken steps to do so. Cyber Essentials is an assurance program that is operated by the NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) and developed from the CESG checklist for the ten steps to cyber security. It was further developed in consultation with the Information Assurance for Small and Medium Enterprises Consortium (IASME), Information Security Forum (ISF), and the British Standards Institution (BSI). Cyber Essentials was developed to assess an organisation’s cyber security level and support effective mitigation and basic security controls against the most common cyber attacks.
How do I get Cyber Essentials certified?
To get certified all businesses are required to engage with a Cyber Essentials accreditation company. CloudTech24 is a certified Cyber Essentials company and can help you with your CE requirements, from the initial self-assessment questionnaire to aligning your processes and information security controls to the technical requirements of the framework.
What is the IASME consortium?
The IASME (Information Assurance Standard) consortium is an information assurance standard developed in 2010.
What Does IASME stand for?
IASME stands for Information Assurance for Small and Medium Enterprises.
How long does it take to get Cyber Essentials accreditation?
CloudTech24 can expedite accreditation for the Cyber Essentials scheme for your business. Our team assist our clients with the self-assessment questionnaire and support our clients in identifying areas that require development to meet the required standards. A certificate can be produced in as little as 24 hours. If your business does not have the expected cyber security measures in place, however, there is likely to be an additional delay.
Do I need Cyber Essentials to be a Government Supplier?
Since 1 October 2014, all suppliers bidding for government contracts involving the handling of personal or sensitive information must be Cyber Essentials certified to demonstrate they have cyber security basics in place to protect against common cyber attacks.
Can CloudTech24 manage our entire Cyber Essentials certification process?
Absolutely, CloudTech24 provides consultative services to certify, recertify or provide effective cyber essentials consulting services to ensure your business can achieve cyber essentials accreditations as smoothly as possible.
How much does Cyber Essentials cost?
The cost of Cyber Essentials depends on which level of Cyber Essentials you choose to work towards. CloudTech24 are specialist cyber security experts and have refined the assessment to so it involves a clear process for our clients to ensure it is simplified, cost-effective and rapid to implement and certify.
What is the Cyber Essentials Plus certification?
Cyber Essentials Plus is an enhanced assessment of Cyber Essentials basic. Although it has the same approach and defences/protection, there is enhanced validation performed with a hands-on technical audit and verification by our cyber security experts.
What is IASME Gold?
IASME Gold is often referred to as IASME Governance Audited, this certification involves an on-site assessment and governance audit evaluating your processes as a similar alternative to ISO 27001 standard, IASME Gold is a high-level of auditing that is typically cheaper and easier for small and medium-sized businesses to implement.
Is patch management needed for Cyber Essentials?
Yes, Cyber Essentials requires a patch management process to be implemented to ensure that all software and devices are updated where there are patches available to address vulnerabilities and update software to stable and secure versions. CloudTech24 can provide patch management managed services to meet the requirements of cyber essentials and achieve certification.
How long does Cyber Essentials certification last?
The Cyber Essentials certification is valid for 12 months from the date of initial certification, CloudTech24 can assist with the reassessment on a yearly basis.