Cyber Essentials

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 …

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 …

Indelible Data is offering Cyber Essentials at a discount to charities over the next two weeks, writes Business Administrator Abbey Wright. Charities purchasing Cyber Essentials between the 6th November and the 17th November will benefit from advice and guidance as well as a discounted price as part of a national effort to educate charities about …

Under Cyber Essentials, there are various controls that are related to administrative accounts and their use, writes Cyber Security Technologist Tyson McGuirk. The scheme makes it very clear that user accounts and admin accounts should be separate and only used for their intended purpose. Admin accounts have access to additional permissions and services that would …