Cyber Essentials Vulnerability Scanning Service
Continuous visibility between Cyber Essentials Plus assessments
With the April 2026 changes increasing the importance of year-round patching compliance, many organisations will need greater visibility across their estate well beyond assessment week.
Our Cyber Essentials Vulnerability Scanning Service is designed to provide that visibility.
Using Qualys Cloud Agents deployed across your environment, we provide regular vulnerability scanning and reporting throughout the year, helping you identify issues that may put your Cyber Essentials or Cyber Essentials Plus certification at risk if left unresolved.
Rather than relying on a point-in-time check ahead of renewal, this service gives your team ongoing insight into vulnerabilities, missing updates and devices that may be falling outside the required remediation window.
What the Cyber Essentials Vulnerability Scanning Service includes
We deploy Qualys Cloud Agents across the agreed device estate, providing continuous visibility of vulnerabilities and patching status.
This allows us to monitor for critical and high-risk vulnerabilities that need to be remediated within the Cyber Essentials timeframes, as well as wider issues that may indicate weaknesses in patching processes or endpoint management.
- Critical and high-risk vulnerabilities
- Missing security updates
- Devices falling outside the required remediation window
- Recurring vulnerabilities across multiple devices
- Trends and systemic patching issues
The reporting is designed to be practical and action-led, giving your IT team a clear view of what needs to be prioritised.
Why this matters under the new CE+ approach
Under the updated scheme, the risk of issues being identified during the live Cyber Essentials Plus assessment has increased materially.
Where vulnerabilities are identified as part of the verification process, the consequences can now be significantly more severe than under previous versions of the scheme.
This service helps reduce that risk by giving you the same level of visibility throughout the year, rather than only at the point of renewal.
For many organisations, this moves Cyber Essentials from an annual exercise to an ongoing control.
That not only supports certification readiness, but also improves day-to-day cyber resilience across the wider environment.
Wider security benefits
Although this service has been developed specifically to support Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus clients, the benefits extend beyond certification.
Regular vulnerability visibility helps organisations:
- Strengthen patch management processes
- Reduce exposure to known vulnerabilities
- Identify repeat issues across the estate
- Evidence ongoing security governance
- Make future renewals significantly smoother
For clients renewing annually, this often makes subsequent Cyber Essentials Plus assessments far less disruptive.
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We are offering the Cyber Essentials Vulnerability Scanning Service with quarterly scans for £400 (+ VAT) per annum (plus a one-off £495 + vat set up fee).
