Secure Your Organisation With Sharp Cyber Essentials Services
Our expert Cyber Essentials services provide the essential tools and strategies to safeguard your organisation.
Get certified todayThe right Cyber Essentials Service for you
We know how important it is for you to ensure that your organisation remains compliant and well-protected, and what better way to do this than through the government-backed Cyber Essentials scheme?
We provide two Cyber Essentials Services that you can choose from:
- Cyber Essentials Support - One-off support to help you achieve your Cyber Essentials accreditation for the year
- Cyber Essentials as a Service, an ongoing solution to ensure you remain compliant all year round.
We provide over 30 years of experience in supporting businesses of all sizes and across industries with IT Services and Cyber Security, including helping organisations to achieve Cyber Essentials certifications. No project is too large or too small for us – we’ve handled every challenge and can tackle any project.
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Enhancing Your Security With Our Cyber Essentials Plus Certification
We are Cyber Essentials Plus certified ourselves. This means we have first-hand experience of what goes into obtaining this accreditation and can use this insight on top of our technical knowledge and training to be able to deliver our Cyber Essentials Services to your organisation.
We also work with CyberSmart to deliver Cyber Essentials as a Service to our clients, creating a ‘strategic partnership’ – the highest partner status in CyberSmart’s Partner Programme. This partnership status recognises our commitment to delivering success with CyberSmart.
Key Benefits of Cyber Essentials as a Service
Security Culture
Promotes a proactive and positive security culture throughout your business.
Year-round Compliancy
Ensures your devices remain compliant and secure all year round.
Faster Recertification
Streamlines the process for faster Cyber Essentials recertification.
Ensure Your Business is Cyber Essentials Accredited
The Cyber Essentials Scheme is a government-backed initiative that outlines a key set of cyber security recommendations that organisations should implement to safeguard themselves, their teams, and their data from unauthorised intrusion and theft. Cyber Essentials is now deemed a cyber security best practice. There are two types of Cyber Essentials certifications:
Cyber Essentials, which is self-certified
An in-depth questionnaire will need to be completed to assess whether your business has reached each security standard. The accredited body will then verify your responses to ensure compliance, before awarding your Cyber Essentials accreditation.
Cyber Essentials Plus, when an external assessor ensures that you meet the outlined requirements, including Cyber Essentials Plus requirements.
The Cyber Essentials + certification expands upon the points outlined in the basic Cyber Essentials Scheme above. However, in addition to the basic scheme, a representative from an accredited assessor will visit your premises and carry out a thorough review of your IT systems.
Through our Cyber Essentials Services, we can guide you through the Cyber Essentials accreditation process, with our vast knowledge and expertise of the scheme. It’s important in this digital age, with the ever-growing threats from cyber criminals that your organisation, its people, and data stay protected.
Working with us on the Cyber Essentials Scheme gives you peace of mind that your cyber security is in the capable hands of industry experts.
Key Features of Cyber Essentials Services
An endpoint agent desktop/laptop & mobile app that continually monitors your devices are protected and are compliant with the Cyber Essentials requirements, including Cyber Essentials Plus requirements. If an endpoint falls out of scope, Sharp will proactively remediate the issues to bring the device back to a compliant state. New employees and devices can be brought quickly into the scope of Cyber Essentials with the installation of this agent and the necessary compliance configured.
The dashboard will provide you will an entire overview of your endpoint estate and their compliance levels, including Cyber Essentials accreditation. It allows our support team to provide 24/7 monitoring of your Cyber Essentials endpoint compliance. Your annual Cyber Essentials questionnaire is within the dashboard, allowing you to review your status and results.
We’ll upload and manage your company’s policies on the online dashboard, which will make these available to all employees via their Monitoring agent. Employees can read & agree to policies via the agent on their desktop or mobile devices. Your business can keep track of policy agreement for every employee right within your dashboard, so you can be assured that everyone has read and understood them.
The academy provides guidance to keep your employees, systems and data secure. As 90% of breaches are from human error, it is important to ensure they’re trained to recognise common threats. Team progress can be reviewed via a company-wide league table.
At around the midway point of your current Cyber Essentials achievement, we will review any additional requirements. Cyber Essentials updates annually with new requirements, so it is important that these are reviewed and any remediation proposed to ensure you adopt the new requirements before the next submission.
Cyber Essentials Services for Compliance All-Year Round
Helping you to adopt your security process around a cyber security framework is key and we have helped 100s of our clients over the years achieve the government-backed Cyber Essentials accreditation.
We have two Cyber Essentials Services to choose from. Learn more below to discover which service is best for you.
Cyber Essentials Support
If you’re simply looking for some support on the Cyber Essentials scheme or how to achieve the accreditation - which stays valid for a year - then we have got you covered.
Our experienced team will conduct a cyber security audit of your organisation’s current IT infrastructure, with a focus on the five essential controls that you will be assessed against in the Cyber Essentials scheme.
Following that, we will provide a breakdown of any potential vulnerabilities and offer expert guidance on how your systems could be improved.
Cyber Essentials as a Service
If you want to ensure ongoing year-round compliance with the Cyber Essentials Scheme, then our Cyber Essentials as a Service solution is the perfect solution for you. As above, we will conduct an audit and provide a breakdown of any vulnerabilities within your systems.
Whilst having Cyber Essentials certification demonstrates good practice and covers you for a year, unless you are proactively monitoring your systems, you won’t know if your devices are compliant throughout the year until you next renew your Cyber Essentials certification.
With Cyber Essentials as a Service, we will make sure that you are in line with the Cyber Essentials requirements 24/7, 365, so that you don’t fall out of scope and become more vulnerable to cyber attacks
Awards & Accreditations
Cyber Essentials PLUS
CyberSmart Strategic Partner