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Indelible Data offers a packaged approach tailoring Cyber Essentials to your company’s needs. The cost depends on company size and your package choice as Business Development Manager Georgia Routledge-Moore explains. How much does Cyber Essentials Basic certification cost? If you’re not sure where to start, our Gold package, priced from £510+VAT, offers our highest level …
This year Cyber Essentials celebrated it’s 10th birthday and the scheme has never been more important writes assessor Tyson McGuirk. Notably, 2024 has seen Artificial Intelligence continue to dominate the headlines, and not without good reason. The speed with which this new technology has developed can make it hard to keep up! AI can now …
Who gets insurance with Cyber Essentials? Organisations that get certified to Cyber Essentials will automatically be entitled to cyber insurance if they certify their entire organisation, are domiciled in the UK or Crown Dependencies, and their annual turnover is under £20m. How to obtain the insurance? As part of the certification process, the applicant is …
When undergoing a Cyber Essentials assessment, businesses may need to ensure that certain devices are restricted from the assessment’s scope writes Assessor James Galbraith. This is generally done when there is a business requirement to use an unsupported application, or an unsupported operating system. Within Cyber Essentials this is called a sub-set, and the most …
By James Galbraith, Cyber Essentials Assessor There will be some important changes with the release of the Cyber Essentials Willow question set in April 2025 which can be downloaded here. The government partner IASME, in consultation with Certification Bodies including Indelible Data, conducts an annual review of the scheme. Notable changes will occur in the …
This guide will walk you through the steps to configure your Mac’s passwords to meet Cyber Essentials compliance standards. Utilising the pwpolicy Tool Apple provides a powerful command-line tool, “pwpolicy,” to manage password requirements on your Mac. This tool allows you to customise various aspects of password complexity, such as: Minimum Password Length: Setting a …
Indelible Data is giving its customers the chance to beat a Cyber Essentials price rise coming into force on April 1st2024. The government’s scheme partner is introducing the first rise since January 2022 in response to rising costs. While we have increased the BRONZE package in line with IASME’s changes a lower increase will maintain …
Cyber Essentials helps keep businesses secure through the assessment of five controls: The use and proper configuration of firewalls The implementation of secure settings for devices and software The use of access control management The implementation of antimalware software and other methods The configuration of automatic updates for devices and software The certification is designed …
We’ve streamlined our Cyber Essentials Gold process by eliminating the use of spreadsheets and implementing the helper feature on the IASME portal. This will ensure that your assessment remains consolidated in one location, eliminating the need for back-and-forth with spreadsheets. To facilitate this transition, we ask that you add helper@indelibledata.co.uk as a helper on the …
While most manufacturers and developers are open about the support milestones of their products, some companies instead prefer to guard their end-of-life dates, which may result in awkward situations during Cyber Essentials certification. One example of this is Apple’s iOS operating system. Traditionally, Apple has supported the two latest major versions of iOS, whereas recently …
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