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Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus Certification Services

Our Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certification services will assist you in protecting your organisation's system and ensuring it stays in compliance.

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At Microminder, We Make Your Cyber Essentials Certification Easy

Do you want your customers and business partners to trust your business to protect their data from attackers? Cyber security is always and will remain a priority for every online business. So, if you take the security of your organisation's data seriously, you must be certified. At Microminder, our Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certification services protect you from common threats by ensuring that you put all the necessary security controls in place.

What Is Cyber Essentials?

Cyber Essentials is a foundation-level certification and a UK Government-backed scheme that helps organisations that operate online to protect themselves against cyber attacks. This certification provides a statement of all the security controls your organisation must have to protect and mitigate the risk from cyber threats.

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What Is Cyber Essentials Plus?

This is the highest certification level, involving a more rigorous test on an organisation's system by a 3rd party. It has the elements of Cyber Essentials but includes a technical verification where a security expert will perform vulnerability tests to ensure your organisation is protected.

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Cyber Essentials vs Cyber Essentials Plus

Cyber Essentials involves self-assessment where the business or applicant must be able to answer the questions that give evidence of implementing the five technical controls. The Plus version includes the five technical controls and an additional security audit by an assessor.

Checks	Cyber Essentials	Cyber Essentials Plus
Questions	Yes	Yes
Evaluation	Yes	Yes
Verification	No	Yes
Certification	Yes	Yes

Why Your Business Needs to Be Cyber Essentials Certified

No matter how small your firm is, you will likely be a target of cyber attacks, especially if you operate online. Becoming Cyber Essentials certified indicates that your business is proactive against malicious attacks and is protected from around 80% of attacks. Here are some reasons your business needs Cyber Essentials certification.

Reassure customers that you take the security of your IT systems seriously.
It demonstrates to your investors, insurers and other stakeholders that you have the minimum precautions to safeguard your business against cyber threats.
It gives you a clear picture of your business protection level against cyber threats.
You stand a chance to apply and win government contracts that require Cyber Essentials certification.
Cyber Essentials is a simple and effective UK Government backed scheme.
It is backed by the Federation of Small Business, the CBI and most insurance organisations.

We will assist you by ensuring that your business stays secure and compliant by making sure you meet all the requirements for being certified.

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Why Your Business Needs to Be Cyber Essentials Certified

The Five Key Cyber Essential Controls

Cyber Essentials include an assessment of your firewall and internet gateways. This is crucial because a well-configured firewall can deter beaches before they penetrate your network, while an internet gateway can block threats before they affect your website.

Boundary Firewalls and Internet Gateways

Checking your system setup and configuration is part of the certification process. The check will ensure that you remove unused software and services and default passwords from your system to reduce the number of vulnerabilities.

Your system should be restricted and accessible to trusted users, with each having a username and a secure password to enable them to log in. Use an administrator account only when installing trusted and known software. Also, passwords and other access should be deleted immediately after a staff member leaves your organisation.

Your system needs protection from malware that is designed to destroy it. Cyber Essentials ensure that you have antivirus products and keep them up-to-date to detect and prevent threats.

You must maintain your computer and software and fix any security vulnerabilities to ensure it runs smoothly. Software like antivirus and anti-malware need constant updates to provide adequate protection, so you should regularly check for updates.

How to Prepare for a Cyber Essentials Assessment

Note that if you choose to complete the Cyber Essentials or Cyber Essentials Plus certification, a failure in one component will lead to a failure in all. Here are tips to assist you in preparing for your Cyber Essentials assessment.

Ensure anti-malware

Ensure anti-malware is installed on all your computer devices and regularly updated. It will guarantee protection against malicious software.

Ensure anti-malware

Ensure anti-malware is installed on all your computer devices and regularly updated. It will guarantee protection against malicious software.

Email security

Email security should be in place. Ensure that your gateway is configured to block harmful files sent by email.

Security protection

Before you take the assessment, you should ensure that your software is up-to-date with the right security protection.

Operating systems

Patch and test all operating systems and software.

Multi-factor authentication

Everyone using your system must have a secure password and change them regularly. Multi-factor authentication should be enabled for systems with high-level controls.

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Comply and Protect Your Organisation System with Microminder Cyber Essentials Certification

Our Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certifications give your organisation a clear view of what must be in place to reduce the risk of attacks if you operate an online business.

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Comply and Protect Your Organisation System with Microminder Cyber Essentials Certification

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Client Testimonials

What our clients say about us

Clients in over 20 countries have secured their businesses from online threats with our cybersecurity services. Excellent customer support and cost-effective pricing are just a few of the reasons we’ve established long-lasting, highly successful relationships with our varied clients. Read our company testimonials to learn more about our unique capabilities and why so many clients have chosen us as their go-to provider for security solutions.

Claire Lee

Practice Manager - Amsel and Wilkins LLP

Microminder's in depth and broad scope pen testing truly provided us with some valuable insights that uncovered key business risks and highlighted necessary actionable intelligent changes that needed to be implemented within our business to combat any potential cyber-attacks from adversaries and prevent any breaches. This exercise helped us to enhance our cyber security posture and test our system’s resilience. We are quite pleased with our engagement with Microminder.

Julie Cockbill

Head of Operations - InfinityBlu dental

Microminder's 24/7 managed security services got deployed with such ease and immediately gave us an eagle eye view into our security logs and events, highlighting any indicators of compromise, effectively automated our response and correlated the incidents with full context, thereby triaging and eliminating all false positives. Our team are amazed at the speed and accuracy of Microminder’s Open XDR technology and skilled staff.

Tina Patel

Head of Integrations – Dental Beauty Partners

Our priority is business continuity and security, especially considering our operations across our 30+ practices. Microminder helped us with a tailored managed security services that aligned with our business needs. Their technology is at the forefront of the industry and that allows us to fully put our trust in their cyber security experts. We are glad to have Microminder as an extension of our technology team!

Philipp Mussbacher

Security Engineer & solutions consultant – Anonymous

Due to the fact that we work a lot with sensitive data in a business context, information security plays a big role for us. Due to the difficult labour market situation and the urgency to improve our security, we have chosen Microminder's CISO as a Service model and are very happy with it. Our virtual CISO manages to ensure stability and quality on the security side as well as legal requirements and compliance. I can only recommend Microminder's service.

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