What is the Cyber Essentials scheme?

Cyber Essentials is a government led, cyber security standard that outlines the basic steps that businesses can take to secure their systems, which your business can be assessed and certified against, certification is awarded by an approved IASME Certification Body

Cyber Essentials has two certifications, Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus with the later being an independently assessed certification based on Cyber Essentials but with the additional of independent verification that you meet those standards.

It identifies the security controls that your organisation must have in place within your IT systems in order to have confidence that you are addressing cyber security effectively and reduce the risk from cyber threats.

Cyber Essentials has five technical controls which allow for an 80% reduction in cyber threats, these are:-

Firewalls
Secure configuration
User access control
Malware protection
Patch management

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