25+ Years of Experience
Fixed Service Pricing
24/7 Monitoring
2500+ Fully Managed Users
25+ Years of Experience
Fixed Service Pricing
24/7 Monitoring
2500+ Fully Managed Users
Learn to defend your business against the most common risks associated with a cyber-attack.
Cyber Essentials is the only UK government cyber certification. Created for SMEs, it helps reduce your chances of suffering from the most common cyber-attacks by up to 80%. To achieve Cyber Essentials accreditation, you’ll need to meet the five technical controls: malware protection, firewalls, password-based authentication, user access control, and secure configuration.
Our vulnerability scanning service is often the fastest way to check where your current setup falls short of these controls before certification.
Cyber Essentials is more than just a box-ticking exercise – it’s a government-backed scheme that proves your business takes cyber security seriously. Whether you’re bidding for contracts, handling sensitive data, or just want peace of mind, certification shows you’ve taken the right steps to secure your digital environment.
Cyber Essentials Plus is independently verified by ‘Certifying Bodies’, such as our partner Cyber Tec Security.
It assesses the same technical controls as the basic version, but Plus allows us to check that you’re aligned with them, rather than you self-assessing. We always recommend that you undergo a Cyber Essentials Plus ‘Pre-Assessment’ first; that way, any security gaps can be identified and remediated, ensuring a pass when it comes to the actual Plus assessment.
The Cyber Essentials Plus process is completely streamlined, so you can have peace of mind that you’re in expert hands – we’ve even got the accreditation ourselves! Thanks to our proprietary technology, assessments are also fully remote.
Answers to the questions we’re asked most often about getting Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certified.
Cyber Essentials is the UK government’s cyber security certification for businesses, built around five technical controls: malware protection, firewalls, password-based authentication, user access control, and secure configuration. It’s designed to reduce the risk from the most common cyber-attacks. It sits alongside our wider managed cyber security service.
Cyber Essentials is a self-assessed certification, while Cyber Essentials Plus is independently verified by a certifying body, giving stronger assurance that your controls are actually in place. We recommend a Cyber Essentials Plus pre-assessment first, so that any gaps can be fixed before the formal assessment.
Managed cyber security covers foundational protection such as email security, endpoint protections, and dark web monitoring. Our managed Security Operations Centre goes further, adding 24/7 threat hunting and incident response across your endpoints, network and cloud environment.
It can. Businesses with Cyber Essentials certification through an IASME-approved certification body, with a turnover under £20 million and based in the UK, may be eligible for free cyber insurance as part of the certification.
It depends on how closely your existing setup aligns with the five technical controls. Our pre-assessment identifies any gaps early, and because our assessments are fully remote, the process can move quickly once those gaps are addressed.
Contact our team to arrange a free consultation. We’ll talk through whether Cyber Essentials or Cyber Essentials Plus suits your business, and manage the certification process alongside our partner certifying body.
Every business is different and so are its IT challenges.
Whether you’re exploring how to improve cybersecurity, strengthen backup and continuity, or get more from your Microsoft 365 environment, we’ll help you identify where to start.
Our consultants will take the time to understand your setup and share clear, practical recommendations. No jargon, no hard sell.
Simply complete the form and we’ll be in touch within 24 hours.
““Nexus didn’t just turn up with a cookie-cutter approach.
They took the time to assess our setup and designed a solution tailored to how we work.”
ICT Assistant Manager, Tamar Crossings
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