CyberEssentials

CompliCIS offers all the support you may need for first time around certification to:

  • Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus,
  • IASME Governance (which includes GDPR compliance)
  • documentation to address every aspect of the Cyber Essentials and IASME Governance requirements – simply and easily
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The Cyber Essentials standard:

  • is for any business that is uncertain what they need to do to improve the security of their systems and protection of their data.
  • has been designed with smaller companies in mind – although it can and does apply to organisations of any size.
  • is backed by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), which was set up by the UK Government in 2016 to raise the nation’s awareness of the threat posed by cyber-attacks
  • covers the basic protections that can be put in place to and how vulnerable many computers and other devices are “out of the box”, unless they are

The IASME Governance standard:

  • is for any business that is looking to improve their overall information security, but does not want to go down the ISO 27001 route

CompliCIS has worked with many organisations across the UK, from NHS Trusts to R&D Consultancies to ensure they achieve Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essentials Plus and IASME Governance certification.

The good news for small businesses is that they are not (currently) the top target of cybercriminals. Still, the statistics are quite frightening:

  • The number of small\medium businesses that reported having had data breaches is going up: from 54% in FY 2017 to 63% in FY 2019
  • The FSB reports that 20% of their members had experienced a cyber attack against their business between January 2017 and January 2019
  • The average cost of an individual attack is £1,300.


With Cyber Essentials certification supported by CompliCIS, your business will be far more protected against many of the more obvious ways to steal, destroy or even hold to ransom your data.

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