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Cyber Essentials Certification
At Obsidian Networks, our Cyber Essentials assessors are IASME certified and experienced in providing accurate accreditations. Before your assessment, we’ll review your business and work with you to make sure that your organisation is ready to pass and ensure that it’s a simple process. If changes need to be made and you’re not quite ready, we won’t submit your application until you are so that you won’t have to redo the review.
The Cyber Essentials certification covers five technical controls that help protect organisations against 80% of the most common cyber attacks. According to the government’s 2024 Cyber Essentials Impact Evaluation, 85% of Cyber Essentials users believe that the scheme has directly improved their understanding of cyber security risks.
Just 3% of businesses and charities have enacted all 10 Steps of the Cyber Essential standard. So investing in Cyber Essentials certification means you’ll be ahead of the curve and able to provide security for your clients. It can even save you money! Insurance companies ask for the Cyber Essentials certification, and you’ll receive a cheaper rate in return, often covering the entire certification cost or more.
Why Get Cyber Essentials Certification?
Cyber Essentials demonstrates that your business or organisation has implemented the five main controls, allowing you to withstand most cyber attacks. On top of this, it:
- Permits you to work with the UK government
- Improves supply chain security
- Enables you to win new business
- Reassure stakeholders that you are committed to the safety of your business and your customers
Cyber Essentials Checklist
There are a wide range of systems that are reviewed during a Cyber Essentials assessment. Our IASME-certified assessors test and review these to ensure that you’re adequately protected against the most common cyber threats. Below, we’ve included a list of areas that we will review.
Firewalls
We will assess whether or not you have firewalls in place to protect you from unauthorised access to your network. We will also check if this is configured correctly and updated regularly with up-to-date security patches.
Secure Configuration
One of the most important aspects of this section is to check whether you have a process for regularly reviewing and updating the security configuration of your software and devices. This includes passwords and their management, as well as multi-factor authentication.
Access Control
We’ll check that you have a process in place to grant and revoke access to your systems and databases and review those granted access and if their access is necessary. We’ll then check how you monitor user activity for suspicious behaviour.
Malware Protection
This section requires up-to-date antivirus and anti-malware software installed on all of your devices, regularly scanning your devices for malware, and having a process in place for responding to malware incidents.
Update Management
Here, we’ll assess if you regularly install security updates for all of your operating systems and software, your process for testing and deploying security updates, and your process for tracking and remedying security vulnerabilities.
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Cyber Essentials Certification Cost
The cost of Cyber Essentials certification depends on the size of your organisation. The majority of our clients actually find that through paying for the certification, they make the money back through insurance savings, more customers, work with the council or government and more! No matter the size of your organisation, we’ll work with you in advance of the assessment to ensure that you’re up to scratch. This is to make sure that you won’t fail the assessment, and have everything you need in place before submitting it. Should you fail for any reason, we also provide one reassessment free of charge, allowing you to have peace of mind in case of any errors.
Micro organisations
For companies with 0-9 employees.
£300 (ex VAT)
Get StartedSmall organisations
For organisations with 10-49 employees.
£400 (ex VAT)
Get StartedMedium Organisations
For organisations with 50-249 employees.
£450 (ex VAT)
Get StartedLarge organisations
For organisations with 250+ employees.
£500 (ex VAT)
Get StartedCyber Essentials Certification in Chester
If you’re nearby, we offer Cyber Essentials certification in Chester, allowing us to assess your business easily, either online or in person. While not necessarily, an in-person assessment allows us to get to know you and offer impartial advice on what your organisation could do to improve their IT systems. Get in touch to book a Cyber Essentials assessor today.
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Obsidian Networks Ltd, Unit 4, Bretton Hall Offices, Chester Road, Bretton, Chester, CH4 0DF
Cyber Essentials Assessors in Chester
Here at Obsidian Networks, our Cyber Essentials assessors work with your business in mind and will always provide you with the right information to improve your systems.
If you’re based in or near Chester, we can do this in-house and come to you. This enables us to meet you and get to know the intricacies of your business so that we can help in the best way possible. Get in touch with us or fill out the contact form below to book your Cyber Essentials certification in Chester today. Alternatively, if you’re further afield, we can work remotely to test your business and make sure it’s ready to pass the test before we submit the assessment. Get in touch today.
Cyber Essentials Certification FAQs
What Is Cyber Essentials?
Cyber Essentials is a certification that shows your clients, partners, and stakeholders that you’re prepared to combat cyber threats and that you’re taking action to protect yourself and your customers. It helps you to guard against the most common cyber threats and will result in cheaper insurance premiums, the ability to work with government entities, and better protection for your IT systems.
How Do I Get Cyber Essentials Certification?
We are certified to complete Cyber Essentials certification and can often complete the assessment on short notice. You’ll need to be able to prove that you’re taking serious considerations towards your cyber security. Once proven, we’ll issue you the certification so you can show it on your website and to your customers.