Cyber Essentials certification can help defend against cyberattacks and secure new business. Experts share advice on how to achieve Cyber Essentials accreditation for UK companies. Cyber Essentials is ...

A new partnership has been announced between the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the IASME Consortium to relaunch the Cyber Essentials Scheme, with IASME as the sole certification body. The ...

James Blake at Cohesity considers whether the NCSC’s Cyber Essentials are really enough to protect British businesses The NCSC’s Cyber Essentials checklist was introduced in 2014, to provide leaders ...

Cyber Essentials has been the national standard for UK organizations to evaluate themselves against since 2014, helping over 30,000 organizations ensure they follow basic cybersecurity hygiene ...

2014 seems like a lifetime ago, particularly in cybersecurity terms. In the 10 years since Cyber Essentials was launched in the U.K. on June 4th, 2014, the complexity of cyber threats and regulations ...

From April 27, 2026, organizations with Cyber Essentials certification must enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) on every cloud service they use or face immediate assessment failure. The UK ...

The number of Cyber Essentials badges issued via the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)-backed security certification scheme continues to increase but at a slower pace than is really needed to ...

On 27 April, the government backed security certification scheme, Cyber Essentials v3.3, takes effect and multi-factor authentication (MFA) becomes a pass-or-fail requirement for the first time. If a ...

Technical controls update includes revisions surrounding the use of cloud services, multi-factor authentication, and password management. New pricing structure better reflects organisational size and ...

Cool Waters Cyber has become the only firm in Cornwall authorised to assess and issue a new Defence Cyber Certification.