The Cyber Essentials Scheme
Infinity Group are a certified Cyber Essentials Plus provider and help businesses achieve both the Cyber Essentials certifications.
Infinity Group are a certified Cyber Essentials Plus provider and help businesses achieve both the Cyber Essentials certifications.
Achieving a strong Cyber Security Structure for your business can consume significant amounts of time, money, specialist expertise and resource. The Cyber Essentials scheme as a Government backed industry recognised certification for Cyber Security.
The Cyber Essentials certification enables all UK organisations to adhere to a series of Cyber Security principles to safeguard their business data, clients data and participate in high value tenders that require this certification. Cyber Essentials helps organisations to mitigate against phishing attacks including Malware, malicious email and website links and hacking opportunities by exploring the known vulnerabilities in internet connected servers and devices.
Properly implemented Cyber Security has the additional advantage of driving business efficiency throughout the organisation, in line with GDPR whilst also saving money and improving productivity. The five security controls that form the framework of both Cyber Essentials Certifications, could prevent “around 80% of cyber attacks”.
Our Cyber Essentials standard and plus Certification packages include a thorough on-site audit by one of our IT Consultants of your current setup, which includes a list of recommendations in line with Cyber Essentials’ strict Certification criteria and assistance with the application.
UK Government backed
recommended IT Security
framework
An alternative or in addition to ISO 27001 Certification and others
Enables your organisation
to tender for
large projects
A must have requirement if you work with highly regulated industries
Achieve optimum
IT Security in line
with GDPR
This affordable certification is awarded on the basis of a verified self-assessment. However to achieve this the business needs to put in place a series of detailed policies and process which take time to assess and implement. Infinity Group help businesses to then undertake their own assessment via the official online questionnaire. This questionnaire is then verified by one of our independent Assessors to assess whether an appropriate standard has been achieved, and the Cyber Essentials Standard is then awarded.
Ideal for businesses who:
Want to demonstrate Government backed IT Security compliance
Are looking for an enhancement of their ISO 27001 certification
Keen to work towards obtaining the Cyber Essentials Plus Certification
The Cyber Essentials Plus certification can only be obtained by a business after the Cyber Essentials Standard has been awarded. This fully audited certification is awarded by an external certifying body and offers a higher level of assurance through the external testing of the businesses cyber security approach, a thorough security scan of the network is undertaken by us and all vulnerabilities are identified.
Ideal for businesses who:
Want to tender for large value projects
Work with highly regulated industries
Are looking for an enhancement of their ISO 27001 certification
(Cyber Essentials Plus only available once Cyber Essentials Standard has been achieved)
Risk Mitigation
Added Assurance
As Cyber Essentials is a stand-alone assurance programme, it’s affordable for all businesses. Many businesses that already have the ISO 27001 also have Cyber Essentials, and some opt for Cyber Essentials only.
Added protection
Thousands of businesses fall victims of cyber security hacks which cost time, money and potentially the loss of company and client data. Cyber Essentials ensures the correct process and setup is in place to prevent this.
Data Protection
In line with GDPR, business owners are now solely responsible for the security of clients data in line with the new regulation. Cyber Essentials helps identify weaknesses and puts secure processes in place.