Protect your business and achieve Cyber Essentials certification in Liverpool with expert support every step of the way.
Meet Orbit, our in-house active compliance software. Most businesses pass Cyber Essentials certification once a year and drift out of compliance the day after. Orbit checks your devices and settings continuously. You stay protected and certifiable all year round.
Cyber Essentials, sometimes called Cyber Essentials accreditation, is a UK Government-backed certification scheme run by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). It protects your business against the most common cyber attacks, covering five core controls: firewalls, secure configuration, access control, malware protection, and security updates.
It matters for every business, not just big ones. Certification proves to customers, suppliers and insurers that you take security seriously, it’s a requirement for many government and enterprise contracts, and it dramatically reduces your risk of the attacks that catch most businesses out.
For a full rundown, check out our dedicated Cyber Essentials blog.
Not for every business, no. It is mandatory for many government contracts though, including work that handles personal data for departments such as the MOD. Outside government work, more private sector clients and insurers now ask for it too. For a lot of businesses, it has become a practical requirement even where it isn’t a legal one.
We understand the importance of cyber security for businesses across a wide range of sectors, including charities, solicitors, accountants and care providers.
As your Cyber Essentials certification service, we handle the whole journey from first certification through to always-on compliance.
The essential first step. We guide you through the self-assessment, get your systems in line with the five core controls, and take you to certification without the jargon or the headaches.
The gold standard. Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation covers everything in Cyber Essentials, independently verified by a hands-on technical audit of your systems. It’s the level many contracts and larger clients now expect.
A certificate proves you were compliant on one day of the year. Orbit, our cyber essentials managed service, proves it every day. It continuously monitors your devices and settings against the Cyber Essentials controls, flags drift the moment it happens, and helps you fix it. Renewal becomes a formality, not a fire drill.
For most small businesses, we can take you from first conversation to certified in 1 to 2 weeks. If your systems need some remediation work first, we’ll give you a clear timeline up front.
Cyber Essentials is a verified self-assessment. Cyber Essentials Plus covers the same five controls but adds an independent, hands-on technical audit of your systems, including vulnerability scans. Plus is increasingly required for public sector and enterprise contracts. We’ve seen demand for Cyber Essentials Plus Liverpool businesses grow steadily as a result.
Yes. Small businesses are targeted precisely because attackers assume they’re less protected. The five Cyber Essentials controls prevent the vast majority of common attacks, and certification can also lower your cyber insurance costs.
Orbit is our in-house active compliance platform. It continuously checks your devices and settings against the Cyber Essentials controls, alerts you the moment something drifts out of compliance, and keeps everything documented, so your annual renewal is a formality.
It depends on the size of your business and which level you need. Cyber Essentials itself is the more affordable of the two, priced by number of devices and employees, while Cyber Essentials Plus costs more because of the added technical audit. Book a consultation and we’ll give you an accurate figure for your business rather than a generic range that doesn’t apply to you.
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