Level Up With Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus

We’ll help you on your way to getting government-backed accreditation.

Cyber Essentials is the government-backed scheme which helps UK businesses become more cyber secure. By assessing cyber attacks against businesses of all sizes, the UK government found that 70% of cyber attacks could be stopped or “significantly mitigated against” by introducing additional measures – which are seemingly basic, as long as you know what they are. These basics help form the basis for the Cyber Essentials scheme.

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Cyber Security / Cyber Essentials Certification

We’ll help you show your customers that you are serious about their data and the safety of it.

Data has been a hot topic for many years now, particularly after GDPR was rolled out across the UK. People are keen to know how their data is being handled, managed and most importantly, protected.

Proving your commitment to cyber security is a quick and simple way to do that – with the help of a well-known and government-backed certification like Cyber Essentials, you’ll be well on your way to doing just that.

Cyber Essentials is a simple but effective set of five controls for managing cyber threats and is government and industry backed. As a fully trained and accredited partner, we’ll support you in the process of getting your Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certification.

Cyber Essentials is based on a set of five controls for managing cyber threats, including boundary firewalls, secure configuration, user access control, malware protection and patch management. The difference between the two levels is that Cyber Essentials Plus is an externally audited version, so it goes a long way in proving to customers and suppliers that you will go the extra mile to protect their valuable data from cyber criminals and attacks.

As an accredited partner, we are well versed in the necessary steps to achieve success and we’ll ensure you’re up to scratch to get your certification.

Get started a free consultation by completing the form above and we’ll help you understand which accreditation is best for you. Or if you’re not sure what you need for your wider cyber strategy then book a free 30-minute virtual consultation, where we can learn a bit more about your business and requirements, then get started with our process and get your teams harnessing their technology to empower them in their roles.

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What is Cyber Essentials?

Cyber Essentials is an effective, Government backed scheme that will help you to protect your organisation, whatever its size, against a whole range of the most common cyber attacks. 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.

There are two levels of certification:

Cyber Essentials

This is a self-assessment that 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

While Cyber Essentials proves a baseline level of protection against cyber threats, Cyber Essentials Plus provides a higher level of assurance that your organisation’s cybersecurity measures are effective. The same trademark simplicity of approach, but with a hands-on verification.

This is the ideal route to take for businesses who want to really examplify to the customers that they are serious about cyber security. With an external audit carried it, you’re proving that you’re willing to do more than a tick-box exercise – and we can help you get there.

Cyber Essentials Plus puts you at the forefront of Cyber Security, for added peace of mind for you and your customers.

Helping Core Prospects achieve success with Cyber Essentials certification

Core Prospects is a family business in the health and social care sector who work with vulnerable adults. Working with them within a supported living environment, Core Prospects help them to gain independence and develop skills in order to require less support in the future. The NHS commission them to provide the care and support, so they’re continually looking to improve what they do.

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We didn’t need to get Cyber Essentials but we wanted to because technology is essential to everything we do. Cyber security is important because we’re dealing with sensitive data. We’re dealing with medical records.

Leon Beccles, Managing Director, Core Prospects

What’s included	Cyber Essentials	Cyber Essentials Plus
Questions based on the five key Cyber Essential controls
Assessment with evidence to prove implementation of the five key Cyber Essential controls
An externally audit of your remote vulnerability assessment
Check patching via an authenticated vulnerability scan
Check malware protection on end-user devices
Check whether EUDs are protected against malware delivered via emails
Check whether EUDs are protected against malware delivered via websites
Verification following an external audit
If you pass, you will receive certification for Cyber Essentials or Cyber Essentials Plus

Cyber Essentials

Questions based on the five key Cyber Essential controls

Assessment with evidence to prove implementation of the five key Cyber Essential controls

An externally audit of your remote vulnerability assessment

Check patching via an authenticated vulnerability scan

Check malware protection on end-user devices

Check whether EUDs are protected against malware delivered via emails

Check whether EUDs are protected against malware delivered via websites

Verification following an external audit

If you pass, you will receive certification for Cyber Essentials or Cyber Essentials Plus

Cyber Essentials Plus

Questions based on the five key Cyber Essential controls

Assessment with evidence to prove implementation of the five key Cyber Essential controls

An externally audit of your remote vulnerability assessment

Check patching via an authenticated vulnerability scan

Check malware protection on end-user devices

Check whether EUDs are protected against malware delivered via emails

Check whether EUDs are protected against malware delivered via websites

Verification following an external audit

If you pass, you will receive certification for Cyber Essentials or Cyber Essentials Plus

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At The HBP Group, we pride ourselves on the high levels of support we provide to our customers. Not only are our response and fix times, customer satisfaction retention figures among the highest in the industry, but we actually focus our time on stopping IT issues happening in the first place, eliminating the never-ending cycle of break-fix IT.

Our managed IT Support services are supported by a wide range of specialisms that help business focus on what they do best – running their businesses. Our services include managed IT, proactive IT support, additional IT resource services, IT consultancy, business continuity services, IT procurement, cyber security and modern workplace consultancy.

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What are the 5 key Cyber Essentials controls?

Access control

This is who has permission to your data and access to the installation of software.

Firewalls

What controls are in place to the wall that surrounds and protects your data – your outer barrier.

Malware protection

What continuous detection of malicious software is in place.

Secure configuration

Essentially, how difficult is it to get into your systems and data?

Patch management

What are you doing to ensure there are no gaps in your software which could weaken your defense.

Not sure where to start?

Our free IT review is the perfect place

You’ll speak with an expert IT consultant so we can best understand your business’ individual goals and aspirations.

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Once we’ve accessed your network, one of our highly skilled IT engineers will complete a fully detailed of your IT.

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Our teams will then create a visual diagram of your current setup, so we can identify any gaps that will inhibit growth.

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We’ll feedback to you, either in person or via video call. We’ll explain and show you your exact current position.

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Finally, we’ll give you expert recommendations and we’ll get to work with you, helping to future plan and proof.

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