Who runs this site
Cyber Essentials UK is a website of Forever Systems, part of Forever Group. We use it to explain the products and services it covers and to help you get a quote that fits your organisation.
What this site covers
The main sections of Cyber Essentials UK are:
- What is Cyber Essentials?: Plain-English introduction to the scheme, the two levels and who needs it.
- Self-assessment: The Cyber Essentials self-assessment: the online question set, director sign-off, assessor marking and your certificate.
- Cost: What certification costs: IASME's fee bands, the annual fee, remediation and internal time.
- Free and funded help: What happened to the NCSC funded programme, and the free help you can use now.
- Requirements: The five technical controls in v3.3, explained in plain English.
- Questionnaire: What the self-assessment questionnaire asks, how to write good answers and which questions fail you outright.
- Cyber Essentials Plus: The higher level: the same five controls, independently tested on your real systems.
- CE vs CE Plus: Side-by-side comparison of the two levels and how to choose.
- Checklist: A practical Cyber Essentials checklist by area, updated for the Danzell automatic fails.
- Gap analysis: Our readiness assessment: how we check your Cyber Essentials compliance before you apply.
The site map lists every page.
How we write our pages
We write our pages from each provider's product documentation. Each page shows the date it was last updated at the foot of the page. Prices and terms depend on your organisation, so we confirm them at quote.
Company details
- Company: Forever Systems Limited
- Company number: 07533635
- Registered in England and Wales
- Registered office: Suite D, Astor House, 282 Lichfield Road, Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B74 2UG
- Companies House record: Forever Systems Limited on Companies House
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