A Straightforward Path To The Certificate That Actually Wins You Business
Cyber Essentials isn't a technical box-tick — it's the badge your customers, insurers, and public-sector clients now expect to see before they'll work with you.
- Win the tenders you're currently locked out of: many public sector and supply-chain contracts — MoD, NHS Trusts, local authority work — now require it before you can even bid.
- Cut your cyber insurance premium: insurers increasingly ask whether you're certified when you renew, and it can directly affect your terms.
- Show customers and partners you take their data seriously: a government-backed certificate, not just a claim on your website.
Why Most Businesses Fail Their First Attempt
It's rarely the paperwork that trips people up — it's the gaps the assessment exposes once you actually start answering the questions. From April 2026, the rules got stricter: if any cloud service your business uses offers multi-factor authentication and it isn't switched on for every user, you automatically fail. No exceptions, whether it's free or paid. Most businesses don't fail because they're careless — they fail because nobody checked their full cloud estate against the current question set before submitting.
Get Cyber Essentials certified — first time.
The readiness review is free and takes 20 minutes. No obligation, no jargon.
Real Preparation Over A Guessing-Game
Anyone can open the online questionnaire and start answering. Getting every answer right, on a system you haven't audited, is a different thing entirely — and a failed submission still costs you the assessment fee.
The Gap-Closing Guarantee
Ticking boxes without checking the underlying setup is how businesses fail and pay to resubmit.
- We run a full gap analysis against the current question set before you submit anything.
- We fix what's missing — patching, access control, secure configuration — not just tell you what's wrong.
- Guaranteed ready before you sit the real assessment.
Skip The Expensive Consultancy Route
Traditional IT security consultants charge by the hour for generic advice and leave the actual fixing to you.
- They hand you a report and a bill, and the technical work is still yours to do.
- We do the remediation ourselves — the same patching and configuration work we already handle for hosting and support clients.
- One fixed engagement, not an open-ended hourly clock.
Zero Jargon. Zero IT Degree Required.
You shouldn't need to learn what a “cloud service scope definition” means just to run your business.
- No technical training, no certificates, no prompt-engineering-style busywork on your end.
- We translate every requirement into plain English and handle the technical side directly.
- You answer what only you can answer about your business — we handle everything else.
Know Exactly Where You Stand Before You Submit
We run the gap analysis, fix what's blocking you, and get your business ready to pass — first time, under the current v3.3 rules — without you needing to become a security expert to get there.