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Critical changes to Cyber Essentials Plus – action may be required to avoid future certification risk

Fundamental changes to the Cyber Essentials Plus (CE+) scheme are being introduced that will impact anyone starting or renewing their Cyber Essentials certification after 27 April 2026. The governing body, IASME, is introducing Version 3.3, which significantly increases the…

Important: Changes to Cyber Essentials Certification & how we support you

The governing bodies for Cyber Essentials have recently introduced significant changes that will affect how organisations achieve certification from 27th April 2026. In many cases, these updates will make the standard harder to achieve, requiring a more robust approach…

The Cyber Essentials Plus changes may be frustrating, but they are necessary

When the upcoming changes to Cyber Essentials Plus were announced, much of the immediate reaction across the industry was predictable: “This is going to create more work.” “This will make renewals harder.” “The jeopardy has increased significantly.” And, to…

How to get Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus – the ultimate UK guide [updated May 2026]

Here’s our ultimate guide to Cyber Essentials, what it is, why you should want it and how you get it. First, we’ll give an overview of the scheme, its purpose and value, then we’ll run through the 5 areas…

Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essentials Assisted or Cyber Essentials Plus?

Cyber Essentials and me Since joining Securious over eighteen months ago, I have studied and completed training to become a qualified Cyber Essentials assessor, and have helped many clients achieve Cyber Essentials certifications.    There are two parts of the process…

How a routine Cyber Essentials Plus assessment helped thwart a serious ransomware attack

As a Cyber Essentials Certification Body, we conduct audits on businesses as part of the Cyber Essentials Plus process, in order to verify that the controls they claim to have in place are there, and ultimately make sure they’re…

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Cyber security – former Defence Secretary criticises companies ‘in denial’ of cyber threats

January 27, 2016

The former Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox has spoken about his concerns about the varied (at best) understanding of the…

Cyber Essentials Certification important first step for cyber security says Intel Security

January 20, 2016

Cyber Essentials Certification – Businesses and Government making a commitment to reduce the impact of cyber crime on British…

MOD requires Cyber Essentials as baseline requirement -supplier contracts from January 2016

January 15, 2016

MOD requires Cyber Essentials for all suppliers bidding on new contracts as of 1st January 2016. The MOD has…

Cyber Essentials-MOD uses government backed scheme for supplier selection

December 8, 2015

Cyber Essentials is the MOD’s base requirement to be implemented by their supply chain to protect against cyber…

Cyber Essentials – it’s simple, accessible to all and protects against 80% of common threats

December 2, 2015

Cyber Essentials – simple to implement, accessible to all and helps to protect companies from 80% of common…

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