Cyber Essentials is the UK government-backed standard for basic cyber hygiene — and increasingly, it's the certificate your customers, insurers, and public-sector contracts expect you to hold. We manage the whole process: assessment, remediation, certification, and everything in between.
Cyber Essentials certifies that your organisation has five core technical controls in place: firewalls, secure configuration, access control, malware protection, and security update management. And the reasons to certify are stacking up:
Cyber Essentials is required for many government contracts involving personal or financial data, and large organisations are now being pushed to demand it across their supply chains. If you supply bigger businesses, expect to be asked for your certificate.
Organisations with the Cyber Essentials controls in place make dramatically fewer cyber insurance claims, and certified organisations with under £20m turnover automatically receive £25,000 of cyber liability insurance, including incident response support.
The five controls block the majority of common, opportunistic attacks — the automated kind that don't care how big your business is.
Certification isn't the hard part. Staying compliant for the other 364 days of the year is — and the scheme is getting stricter, with updated requirements taking effect from April 2026.
Most businesses that struggle with Cyber Essentials fail in the gap between renewals: a new laptop that never got configured properly, a leaver's account that never got disabled, an update policy that quietly drifted. Then renewal season arrives and it's a scramble.
Because we already manage our clients' endpoints, patching, and security, keeping them assessment-ready is part of the day job — not an annual panic. When renewal comes around, the evidence is already in order.
CE Plus adds independent technical verification — an assessor actually tests your systems rather than taking your word for it. It carries more weight with larger customers and procurement teams, and it must be completed within three months of your base certification. If Plus is where you need to be, we'll get you there.
Or worried your renewal is about to get harder? Talk to us before the renewal deadline arrives. We'll assess where you stand, free of jargon and obligation.
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