Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials – How do I become certified? When applying for Cyber Essentials Basic, please select the size of company and package required here to make payment and receive a login to the assessment portal. All responses must ultimately be entered into an online portal to achieve certification. How long does Cyber Essentials Certification last? …

By Tony Wilson Senior consultant We are often asked how to prevent, or alert the user that, an untrusted file has been downloaded from the internet. This is a requirement of Cyber Essentials and relates to question 4.5 of our questionnaire. It is often a good idea to check your anti-virus programme as it may …

By Jason McNicholas Cyber Security Apprentice The Indelible Data tech team attended Infosec in London looking for tools and services that would help companies achieve Cyber Essentials. Our highest priority was to identify a way in which small companies could implement two-factor authentication affordably. After trawling hundreds of stands, they found a great solution from …

Indelible Data is celebrating certifying more than 1000 companies to Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus as the scheme reaches its fifth anniversary. From FTSE 100 company Whitbread Plc and multinationals like 8×8 Inc and Xerox Ltd, to SMEs and micro businesses, Indelible Data has assessed and assisted organisations seeking to keep their systems safe …

By Tony Wilson Senior consultant Indelible Data has found that many companies trying to comply with Cyber Essentials, particularly those wishing to prevent emailed executable files running without sufficient warning, are actually blocking valid, often important, files arriving into user inboxes. For example, the Cyber Essentials Plus test includes executables contained in zip (container) files …

By Jason McNicholas Cyber Essentials assessor Important note: As of 1st April 2020 the Cyber Essentials Scheme changed structure and there is now only one NCSC Trusted Partner (IASME) coordinating Certification Bodies and other Cyber Essentials realated activities. For a comprehensive guide to passing first time using the IASME questionnaire, please purchase our updated companion …