What is Cyber Essentials?

Cyber Essentials is a Government-backed certification scheme designed to establish a robust security foundation for businesses, ensuring they operate safely online. Both Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus demonstrate your organization’s dedication to cybersecurity, boosting trust with customers, stakeholders, and supply chain partners.

In addition, UK businesses that certify their entire organization may qualify for complimentary cyber insurance (terms apply). Certification is also a requirement for many government and public sector contracts, opening doors to new opportunities. Cyber Essentials Plus offers enhanced security measures, unlocking even more access to public sector contracts.

Cyber attacks come in many shapes and sizes, but the vast majority are very basic in nature, carried out by relatively unskilled individuals. They’re the digital equivalent of a thief trying your front door to see if it’s unlocked. Our advice is designed to prevent these attacks.

Whether you’re safeguarding basic contact details or confidential personal identifiable data, understanding that others depend on you to protect their data on your systems can be overwhelming.

Maintaining cybersecurity entails a myriad of tasks: vulnerability scans, deploying security software, performing onsite audits, implementing antivirus measures, user education and protective monitoring… The list is endless, but we can help you through the journey and handle it all.

At KBS, our consultant-led security assessement uncovers your risks and will boost your business resillience. We provide a FREE digital assessment, which delivers a comprehensive review of the information seecurity and cyber security mesaures in place across your business, helping you to understand your current posture, find weaknesses and opportunities to create a roadmap that will improve your cybersecurity.

Why should you become Cyber Essentials Certified?

Gaining a Cyber Essentials certification offers assurance to your customers and suppliers that you have a baseline appreciation of Cyber Security. In an era notable for indiscriminate cyber attackers targeting companies regardless of their size and industry, proving your Cyber Security credentials will boost your image as a secure company in the fight against cyber criminals. Cyber Essentials is a certification suitable for all organisations, of any size, in any sector.

Credibility and trustworthiness are two keywords that all companies with an online business model should bear in mind when promoting products and services. Being credible means that you deliver what you promise without any hidden or additional tricks; consequently, you are considered trustworthy and customers will keep doing business with you.

In an era notable for indiscriminate cyber attacks targeting companies regardless of their size and industry, your credibility is critical to surviving and to beating competition. Proving your cyber security credentials will boost your image as a secure company in the fight against cyber criminals.

Cyber crimes were experienced by businesses over the past year. That’s around half of all businesses in the UK. Don’t be next.

Who is Cyber Essentials for?

Cyber Essentials can help every organisation – from micro businesses to large corporations – guard against the most common cyber attacks. If you have digital assets or store any data, putting the Cyber Essentials controls in place can help you keep it safe.

More resilient

92% fewer insurance claims are made by organisations with the Cyber Essentials controls in place

More trusted

89% of organisations would recommend certifying to other organisations like theirs

More competitive

69% of those with Cyber Essentials believe that it has increased their market competitiveness

More informed

88% believe Cyber Essentials has improved their understanding of cyber security risks

Need a little more help?

If you need cyber security guidance, and hands-on support to implement the Cyber Essentials controls, our network of NCSC assured Cyber Advisors is here to help.

We will understand your security maturity with a FREE Cyber Security Assessment

We provide consultant-led security assessments to uncover your risks & boost your business resilience. A Cyber Security Assessment from KBS is a comprehensive review of the information security and cyber security measures in place across your business. This helps you understand your current security posture, find weaknesses and opportunities, and create a roadmap to improve your security.

  • Map your security to ISO 27001 & Cyber Essential Essential requirements
  • An independent assessment delivered by experienced information security consultants
  • A status report with remediation recommendations
  • Independent verification of your security posture

Simple, cost-effective Cyber Essentials compliance

We provide flexible packages, plus giving you all of the security tools you need to meet Cyber Essentials certification as part of the package.

Why choose KBS as your Cyber Essentials Assessor?

We have extensive experience in cybersecurity and offers comprehensive threat and vulnerability assessments to secure your organisation.  We provide support and guidance throughout the certification process, ensuring you understand and implement the necessary security measures. Achieving Cyber Essentials certification through KBS Group can boost your reputation by showing customers and partners that you take cybersecurity seriously. This can attract more business and improve your organization’s trustworthiness.

Cost-effective Certification

Great value certification with tailored packages to suit every budget.

Security Tools Included

Protect your business with included cyber protection tools.

Experienced Certified Assessors

Get support from our certified Cyber Essentials assessors.

Helps Grow Your Business

Certification inspires customer trust & helps win new business.

There are two levels of certification:

Choose your certification level:

Cyber Essentials certification demonstrates that an organisation is protecting itself by implementing the most important cyber security controls.  A team of experts review the scheme at regular intervals to ensure it stays effective in the ever-evolving threat landscape.

Cyber Essentials certification includes automatic cyber liability insurance for any UK organisation who certifies their whole organisation and has less than £20m annual turnover. At the first level of Cyber Essentials, organisations assess themselves against five basic security controls and a qualified Assessor verifies the information provided.

Cyber Essentials

Our self-assessment option gives you protection against a wide variety of the most common cyber attacks. This is important because vulnerability to basic attacks can mark you out as target for more in-depth unwanted attention from cyber criminals and others. Certification gives you peace of mind that your defences will protect against the vast majority of common cyber attacks simply because these attacks are looking for targets which do not have the Cyber Essentials technical controls in place. Cyber Essentials shows you how to address those basics and prevent the most common attacks.

Cyber Essentials Plus

Cyber Essentials Plus still has the Cyber Essentials trademark simplicity of approach, and the protections you need to put in place are the same, but for Cyber Essentials Plus a hands-on technical verification is carried out. Alternatively you can familiarise yourself with cyber security terminology, gaining enough knowledge to begin securing your IT.

We are here to help. Comprehensive threat and vulnerability assessments are essential to securing your organisation.

Our free Cyber Security Assessment Consulting gives you access to speak with our security experts to give you a clear understanding of your vulnerabilities.

Would you like to find out more? Talk to our Cyber Security experts today

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