Cyber Essentials

Certify your organisation with Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus. Simplified certification process with guided questionnaires and support.

Cyber Essentials certification helps you…

Tender for UK Government & MOD contracts

Cyber Essentials is mandatory for all Ministry of Defence contract bids and many Government tenders.

Protect your business from common cyber attacks

Implementing the controls correctly helps protect your organisation and commercially sensitive data from many common hacking tactics.

Lower your insurance premiums

Cyber Insurance agencies look more favourably on organisations that have achieved Cyber Essentials certification.

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Cyber Essentials certification process

Cyber Essentials Basic

This self assessment option gives you protection against a wide variety of common cyber attacks.

Step One

Request a self-assessment questionnaire

Step Two

Pay the certification fee.

Step Three

Complete the questionnaire on Citation Cyber Hub.

Step Four

We will award a PASS or FAIL, or request additional information, if required

Step Five

Once a PASS is awarded, your certificate will be stored in the Citation Cyber Hub.

Step One

Request a self-assessment questionnaire.

Step Two

Pay the certification fee.

Step Three

Complete the questionnaire on Citation Cyber Hub.

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We will award a PASS or FAIL, or request additional information, if required.

Step Five

Once a PASS is awarded, your certificate will be stored on the Citation Cyber Hub.

Cyber Essentials Plus

When a higher standard of certification is needed, Cyber Essentials Plus has you covered. Includes an onsite, technical verification.

Step One

Request a self-assessment questionnaire

Step Two

We will scope your requirements and send you a quote for certification costs

Step Three

Complete the questionnaire on Citation Hub.

Step Four

We carry out onsite or remote internal and external vulnerability tests.

Step Five

We generate an assessment along with the self-assessment questionnaire.

Step Six

Pay the certification fee on receipt of invoice.

Step Seven

We will award a PASS or FAIL with a detailed breakdown of our findings.

Step One

Request a self-assessment questionnaire.

Step Two

We will scope your requirements and send you a quote for certification costs.

Step Three

Complete the questionnaire on Citation Cyber Hub.

Step Four

We carry out onsite or remote internal and external vulnerability tests.

Step Five

We generate an assessment along with the self-assessment questionnaire.

Step Six

Pay the certification fee on receipt of invoice.

Step Seven

We will award a PASS or FAIL with a detailed breakdown of our findings.

Request your Cyber Essentials self-assessment questionnaire

If you’d like to find out more about the Cyber Essentials scheme, please fill out the contact form and a member of our team will be in touch with more information.

We aim to respond to all enquiries the same working day.

Additional Cyber Essentials services

Cyber security experts supporting companies worldwide

Very helpful and great support from the start to the end

Credit Style have been using Citation Cyber now for over 5 years. During this time Credit Style and Citation Cyber have formed a close and trusting relationship due to their prompt, helpful and friendly service. Over this period Citation Cyber have carried out numerous projects, from External, Internal and Web Penetration testing to carrying out the testing for Credit Style to become Cyber Essentials Plus certified, most recently carrying out External Infrastructure Penetration Testing.

We were really appreciative of Citation Cyber's responsiveness to us as our penetration testing needed to be completed very quickly and were able to accommodate this. Communication from the team was really good and the report was comprehensive and easy to follow for us and our developers.

I have been dealing with Citation Cyber for around three years now and in all that time they have always struck me as being very professional, very knowledgeable, and always wanting to go that extra mile. I think the biggest recommendation I can give Citation Cyber is that I recommend them to colleagues within the industry.

Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials certification helps you…

Tender for UK Government & MOD contracts

Protect your business from common cyber attacks

Lower your insurance premiums

Ready to get started?

Cyber Essentials certification process

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Request your Cyber Essentials self-assessment questionnaire

Additional Cyber Essentials services

NCSC-Certified Cyber Essentials Consultancy Training

Consultancy for the Cyber Essentials Assessment Process

Cyber security experts supporting companies worldwide

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