Cyber Essentials Readiness Tool
This free tool will help you look at your organisation’s cyber security. The Cyber Essentials Readiness Tool can help you gauge your current level of cyber security in relation to where you need to be to achieve Cyber Essentials certification.
Introducing the Cyber Essentials Readiness Tool
Do you need to prepare for Cyber Essentials? The Readiness Tool is a great place to start.
The interactive questions in this free tool will lead you through the main parts of the Cyber Essentials requirements. Through this process, you will understand whether the cyber security in your organisation meets the requirements for Cyber Essentials. If there are areas where you need to put more controls in place, you will get a link to guidance about how to make those changes.
At the end of this process, based on your answers, you will get a list of actions outlining what steps you need to take to prepare for Cyber Essentials.
What is Cyber Essentials?
Cyber Essentials is an annually renewable cyber security certification scheme centred around five technical controls that help protect any organisation from the most common cyber attacks.
Once registered, applicants complete an online self-assessment questionnaire which address the scope of the assessment and the five core controls. These include user access control, secure configuration, security update management, firewalls and routers, and malware protection. The self-assessment relies on you being able to understand the questions and know the answers.
A board member from your organisation must sign a declaration to confirm that all the answers are true, then a qualified external Assessor will mark the answers.
Once you have completed the questions in the Readiness Tool, it doesn’t automatically mean you will pass the Cyber Essentials assessment. This platform has been designed to give you a list of items to consider, in preparation for the Cyber Essentials assessment.
Get ready for Cyber Essentials
Understand if the cyber security in your organisation meets the Cyber Essentials requirements
Generate a tailored report that outlines areas for improvement
Prepare your organisation to certify to Cyber Essentials
“The guidance is useful and easy to understand for non-IT professionals. The language was clear for people who are not technical whizzes.”
”Completing the Readiness Tool was not too onerous. It felt like doing a non-judgemental assessment.”
“Helps focus the attention to what actually needs to be done, helping those who want to take action but are not sure where to start.”