Cyber Essentials & Cyber Essentials Plus Certification Support
Readiness, remediation and someone alongside you for the assessor's questions, so the certificate arrives on the date you promised it.
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In short: Help getting certified: a pre-assessment against the five control themes, the remediation work to close what fails, and support through the questionnaire and the assessor's follow-up questions. For businesses with a contract, tender or insurer that has set a date. We work alongside certified assessors, we do not issue the certificate ourselves.
Who this is for
The problem
The expensive version of this is discovering the gaps during the assessment rather than before it. Certification runs to a clock, remediation takes as long as it takes, and a failed or withdrawn application usually means paying again and explaining a slipped date to whoever asked for the certificate.
What we would do
Do the pre-assessment before you apply, not after. Almost all first-time failures come from the same small set of issues, and every one of them is cheaper and faster to fix while nobody is waiting on you. If you have a deadline, that order is the difference between certifying on time and reapplying.
- If you already hold current certification, your estate has not materially changed and you are simply renewing, go straight to renewal. You do not need help with this.
- If you need Cyber Essentials Plus, scope the audit first. Plus is a hands-on technical audit of a sample of your devices rather than a longer questionnaire, and the work that makes it pass is done well before the auditor connects.
- If unsupported software is in scope, resolve that question before anything else. It is the single most common reason an application cannot proceed, and sometimes the answer is segregation rather than replacement.
When we are not the answer: If you want somebody to fill in the questionnaire for you and leave the estate as it is, that is not what this is, and it would not survive Plus or an incident anyway.
What is included
- Pre-assessment against all five control themes, with a written gap list
- A straight answer on scope, including what can be legitimately excluded and what cannot
- Remediation of what would fail, done by the engineers who run the estate
- Support completing the self-assessment questionnaire, in your words and accurately
- We stand alongside you for the assessor's follow-up questions rather than handing you over
- Cyber Essentials Plus preparation, where a sample of devices is audited hands-on
What the last 12 months looked like
What it costs
Scoped and quoted against your estate rather than sold from a rate card. We price what you already run, including the parts that are working and do not need replacing, and the quote itemises what is included so it can be compared line by line with anyone else’s. Managed IT support starts at £40 per user, per month if that is the wider question.
Three questions people ask
Do you issue the Cyber Essentials certificate?
No, and it is worth being precise about this. IASME is the accreditation body for the scheme and licenses the Certification Bodies that assess submissions and issue certificates.
How long does Cyber Essentials take?
The assessment itself is fast. What takes time is remediation, and that depends entirely on what the pre-assessment finds. An estate that is already well managed can move quickly.
What does Cyber Essentials cost?
There are two separate costs and they are worth keeping separate in your head. The certification fee is set by the scheme and banded by organisation size, and it is paid to the Certification Body rather than to us.
Tell us what you need
A short call to talk through how your IT works today, what your team handles, and what you need from a provider. We will tell you plainly how we would approach it.
Prefer to talk now? Call us on +44 (0)1482 770583.