Protecting your business with a Cyber Essentials Certification
As an authorised and licensed Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus organisation, Blue Frontier can help your business to align your systems to the Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus standards, helping you to safeguard your digital assets from the ever-growing threat of cyber attack.
Our certification process is designed to meet industry standards while enhancing your overall cyber security posture, ensuring your company remains resilient against common cyber threats.
Accreditations
Cyber Essentials Certification
This government-backed scheme provides a fundamental level of security by outlining essential controls that protect your organisation from common and everyday cyber risks.
The Cyber Essentials Certification is perfect for businesses of all sizes, offering a clear framework to secure your IT infrastructure, bolster stakeholder confidence and give both your customers and employees peace of mind that their data is protected.
Cyber Essentials Plus Certification
Cyber Essentials Plus builds on the foundations of Cyber Essentials by including everything from the standard scheme with the addition of onsite technical verification. This rigorous, hands-on assessment is conducted by our experienced consultants, and is designed to:
- Lower your insurance premiums by enhancing your security posture
- Ensure robust defences are in place against prevalent cyber attacks
- Enable your organisation to tender for UK Government and Ministry of Defence contracts
- Comply with the UK Government’s new PPN 01/24 requirements for certain public sector contracts.
Why choose Blue Frontier
Choosing an authorised and accredited Cyber Essentials Certification body is essential towards taking your first step as a Cyber Essentials Certified organisation. At Blue Frontier, we are able to provide your business with both a Cyber Essentials Certification and a Cyber Essentials Plus Certification to ensure maximum security and compliance.
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Accredited Expertise
As an authorised Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certification body, we are licensed to assess and certify your organisation to either Cyber Essentials level, ensuring that your business meets the highest cyber security standards.
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Enhanced Cyber Protection
As a Cyber Essentials and CREST accredited agency, we will help you to implement essential controls and advanced measures to defend your organisation's digital assets against daily cyber threats and secure your IT infrastructure to withstand common cyber attacks.
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Increased Trust
Our understanding and commitment to developing your business' resilience to cyber attacks will help you demonstrate your ongoing commitment cyber security; building confidence with customers, partners, employees and stakeholders.
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Regulatory Compliance
Our cyber security team is compliance and security focused, meaning we can help you meet crucial industry standards that will allow your organisation to qualify for government and public sector contracts, including those requiring Cyber Essentials certification for tendering.
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Expert Guidance
Take full advantage of our accredited assessments and personalised support throughout your certification journey and see the benefits of engaging Blue Frontier in the development of your business' cyber security approach.
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Cyber Essentials FAQs
Deciding to pursue either a Cyber Essentials or Cyber Essentials Plus Certification is a step to secure your digital future by prioritising your organisation's safety and security, therefore, it is a decision not taken lightly and naturally you may have some questions.
Cyber Essentials Plus builds upon the foundations of Cyber Essentials by including everything from the standard scheme with the addition of onsite technical verification.
Cyber Essentials requires an organisation to self-assess and answer a series of questions regarding the security measures they have in place to protect not only their digital assets, but also their employees and physical assets. The assessment criteria is based on five core controls, which include user access control, secure configuration, security update management, firewalls and routers, and malware protection.
Yes, to ensure that your organisation meets the necessary standards, the UK Government has released an essential document covering a range of topics, including asset management, technical control, software protection and more.
For more information, please download the Cyber Essentials: Requirements for IT Infrastructure V3.1 document here.
At Blue Frontier, we understand there is often a need to balance security protocol with your company's budgetary requirements, therefore we tailor our pricing structure to the size of your organisation.
For businesses interested in a Cyber Essentials Plus Certification, we will provide a bespoke quote to ensure that we meet your requirements.