Taking Cyber Essentials to the next level – with our Platinum service

Our Platinum package is taking Cyber Essentials to the next level by combining Cyber Essentials Basic certification with 12 months external Vulnerability Scanning for the price of 10. Your Cyber Essentials certification will reassure customers that your company’s cyber security controls will protect against the vast majority of common online attacks. This is coupled with …

Tailoring Cyber Essentials to your company’s needs

Indelible Data offers a packaged approach tailoring Cyber Essentials to your company’s needs. The cost depends on company size and your package choice as Business Development Manager Georgia Routledge-Moore explains. How much does Cyber Essentials Basic certification cost? If you’re not sure where to start, our Gold package, priced from £510+VAT, offers our highest level …

Cyber threats looming in 2025

This year Cyber Essentials celebrated  it’s 10th birthday and the scheme has never been more important writes assessor Tyson McGuirk. Notably, 2024 has seen Artificial Intelligence continue to dominate the headlines, and not without good reason. The speed with which this new technology has developed can make it hard to keep up! AI can now …

Tell me about cyber liability insurance that comes with Cyber Essentials certification

Who gets insurance with Cyber Essentials? Organisations that get certified to Cyber Essentials will automatically be entitled to cyber insurance if they certify their entire organisation, are domiciled in the UK or Crown Dependencies, and their annual turnover is under £20m. How to obtain the insurance?  As part of the certification process, the applicant is …

How VLANs can help you achieve Cyber Essentials compliance

When undergoing a Cyber Essentials assessment, businesses may need to ensure that certain devices are restricted from the assessment’s scope writes Assessor James Galbraith. This is generally done when there is a business requirement to use an unsupported application, or an unsupported operating system. Within Cyber Essentials this is called a sub-set, and the most …

Secure Your Mac: Meet Cyber Essentials Password Standards

This guide will walk you through the steps to configure your Mac’s passwords to meet Cyber Essentials compliance standards. Utilising the pwpolicy Tool Apple provides a powerful command-line tool, “pwpolicy,” to manage password requirements on your Mac. This tool allows you to customise various aspects of password complexity, such as: Minimum Password Length: Setting a …

Beat the Cyber Essentials price rise

Indelible Data is giving its customers the chance to beat a Cyber Essentials price rise coming into force on April 1st2024. The government’s scheme partner is introducing the first rise since January 2022 in response to rising costs. While we have increased the BRONZE package in line with IASME’s changes a lower increase will maintain …

Does my business need Cyber Essentials?

Cyber Essentials helps keep businesses secure through the assessment of five controls: The use and proper configuration of firewalls The implementation of secure settings for devices and software The use of access control management The implementation of antimalware software and other methods The configuration of automatic updates for devices and software The certification is designed …

Find out about our new streamlined process for our Cyber Essentials Gold package!

We’ve streamlined our Cyber Essentials Gold process by eliminating the use of spreadsheets and implementing the helper feature on the IASME portal. This will ensure that your assessment remains consolidated in one location, eliminating the need for back-and-forth with spreadsheets. To facilitate this transition, we ask that you add helper@indelibledata.co.uk as a helper on the …