Cyber Essentials is a UK Government-backed certification scheme overseen by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). It provides five key technical controls designed to help organisations protect themselves against the most common cyber threats, including basic hacking and phishing attacks.
Why Cyber Essentials matters
Cyber Essentials offers a straightforward and practical way to strengthen your organisation’s cyber security. By putting the five core controls in place, you can significantly reduce your exposure to common online attacks while demonstrating to customers, suppliers and public-sector buyers that cyber security is taken seriously.
Key benefits of Cyber Essentials
Improved cyber resilience – Helps protect your organisation against common cyber-attacks.
Government and supply-chain opportunities – Certification may be required when bidding for certain government and public-sector contracts.
Customer confidence – Demonstrates your commitment to protecting your organisation and its information.
Secure configuration – Helps identify unnecessary systems, applications and services, reducing potential security vulnerabilities.
Firewalls and internet gateways – Helps control network traffic and reduce exposure to external threats.
Access control – Supports better management of user access and administrative privileges, reducing opportunities for unauthorised changes or software installation.
Patch management – Keeping software and operating systems up to date helps address known security vulnerabilities and maintain performance.
Malware protection – Helps protect devices against viruses, malware and other common threats.
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