Cyber Essentials Plus: A Guide to Certification 2024

Cyber Essentials Plus is the highest level of certification available under the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) backed Cyber Essentials Scheme. The scheme helps organisations ensure they have effectively implemented the essential security controls to protect against common cyber threats. Building upon the baseline Cyber Essentials certification, where organisations self-assess their security controls using […]

750 Cyber Essentials & Cyber Essentials Plus Certificates Issued

We are delighted to announce that Predatech has reached a new milestone. We’ve now successfully issued over 750 Cyber Essentials & Cyber Essentials Plus certificates! Having only crossed the 500 certificate threshold earlier this year, achieving this new milestone solidifies Predatech’s position as one of the fastest-growing IASME Certification Bodies for the Cyber Essentials scheme. […]

500 Cyber Essentials & Cyber Essentials Plus Certificates Issued

Cyber Essentials Certificates Milestone

We’re delighted to announce a new milestone for Predatech! We’ve now issued 500 Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certificates. Run by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in conjunction with IASME, Cyber Essentials is a Government-backed scheme that is designed to protect organisations of any size against the most common cyber threats. Certification also […]

Cyber Essentials Plus: A Guide to Certification 2023

*We’ve written a new guide to Cyber Essentials Plus certification which reflects the up-to-date requirements*. Cyber Essentials Plus is the highest level of certification that can be achieved under the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) backed Cyber Essentials Scheme. The scheme helps organisations ensure they have effectively implemented the fundamental security controls to protect […]

250 Cyber Essentials Certificates Issued

Cyber Essentials

We’re delighted to announce that Predatech has successfully issued two hundred and fifty Cyber Essentials & Cyber Essentials Plus certificates! Reaching this milestone so quickly after announcing our first one hundred certificates, establishes Predatech as one of fastest growing IASME Certification Bodies for the Cyber Essentials scheme. Alongside Cyber Essentials, Predatech is CREST accredited for […]

Cyber Essentials Plus: A Guide to Certification 2022

*We’ve written a new guide to Cyber Essentials Plus certification which reflects the up-to-date requirements*. Cyber Essentials Plus certification is the highest accreditation offered by the government-backed Cyber Essentials Scheme which aims to help organisations implement the fundamental baseline cyber security controls. While the basic Cyber Essentials is a self-assessed evaluation of an organisation’s basic […]

Cyber Essentials Scheme 2022 Update Summary

The Cyber Essentials scheme is going through the biggest overhaul since its inception back in 2014. The newest update (named Evendine) goes live on the 24th January 2022 and heralds the arrival of a number of changes, including the increased coverage of cloud services, introduction of device locking requirements and new password criteria. Some of […]

100 Certificates Issued in 2021 (so far)

100 Cyber Essentials

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve successfully delivered over one hundred Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus assessments this year (so far)! Although this is a significant milestone for us, with a busy two and a half months left until we wave goodbye to 2021, we’re looking forward to delivering many more Cyber Essentials and […]

Cyber Essentials Plus: A Guide to Certification 2021

*We’ve written a new guide to Cyber Essentials Plus certification which reflects the up-to-date requirements*. Cyber Essentials scheme is a Government-backed scheme launched in 2014 that helps organisations to implement fundamental security controls to protect against basic cyber attacks. The scheme offers the standard Cyber Essentials certification which is a prerequisite to the more advanced, […]

What is Cyber Essentials?

In this guide to all things Cyber Essentials, we dive into the ins and outs of this Government-backed certification.