How Do the Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus Assessments Work?

How Do the Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus Assessments Work?

Top tips to achieve Cyber Essentials certification from our cyber security assessor How can you sail through your Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus assessments? How can you prepare? What support can you expect from an assessor? What does the ‘technical audit’ for Cyber Essentials Plus involve, exactly? And what are some common pitfalls? We put these questions to cyber security advisor Ash Brett, who has carried out hundreds of Cyber Essentials Plus assessments. In this interview SAQ (self-assessment questionnaire) Previously, you said that Cyber Essentials involves completing an independently verified SAQ. Could you tell us a bit more
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Cyber Essentials: The 5 Cost-Effective Security Controls Everyone Needs

Cyber Essentials: The 5 Cost-Effective Security Controls Everyone Needs

Cyber Essentials is a UK government scheme that outlines steps organisations can take to secure their systems. It contains five controls that cover the basics of effective information and cyber security. Anyone familiar with the scheme can implement the controls, regardless of their information security knowledge. And although the controls are only basic – not to mention economical – they’re hugely beneficial to anyone who certifies. If implemented correctly, these five technical controls can prevent about 80% of cyber attacks. This blog explains the five Cyber Essentials controls and how they keep organisations safe. In this blog How does Cyber
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