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Cyber Essentials

Why Cyber Essentials?

Cyber Essentials is a UK government-backed certification to help organizations protect against common cyber-attacks, supporting both private and public sectors. In 2024 over 50% of organisations reported some sort of cyber attack or security breach and these are the ones that they know about. Cyber Essentials helps protect against this increasing threat, a successful attack could disable your business, access your data, leaving you open to fines and damage customer confidence.

What’s Involved?

Blue Planet IT security services can design and maintain systems and processes that will comply with the five key controls with minimal impact on your day-to-day operations.

  • Firewalls for secure internet connections
  • Secure configuration of systems
  • Access control to restrict data and service access to authorised users
  • Malware protection to guard against malicious software
  • Patching to keep software up-to-date and vulnerabilities patched

We can also prepare and submit your application to IASME the governing body to make certification as pain-free as possible.

Is it worth the effort?

Yes, being the target of some sort of cyber threat is not a matter of if but when.  When it does happen Cyber Essentials will help mitigate that risk.

Advantages include:

  • Reduced risk of your organisation experiencing downtime due to a Cyber Incident
  • Reduced risk of a data breach they may incur a fine
  • Demonstrate to your customers that operating securely with your and their data

Next steps

To understand what would be involved for your organisation to achieve Cyber Essentials then please contact us and will organise for one of Cyber Security Specialists to talk you through the process.

Further Reading

https://iasme.co.uk/cyber-essentials

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/cyber-security-breaches-survey-2024/cyber-security-breaches-survey-2024

https://www.csoonline.com/article/534628/the-biggest-data-breaches-of-the-21st-century.html

Call 01295 533977 to talk to us about Cyber Essentials or email us at hello@blueplanet-it.co.uk

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