The Cyber Essentials (CE) scheme The UK government launched cyber security programs for small and medium sized organisations. Cyber Essentials scheme define basic information security measure which improves security posture of an organization. The scheme defines a series of technical and procedural controls to mitigate the risks associated with cyber threats.
Netlogic is able to assist with Cyber Essentials certification, with the pre-assessment so, clear road map on how to bridge the gaps and reduce their risks associated with a cyber breach.
Cyber Essentials Assessment domains
Cyber Essentials scheme defined following 5 security domain areas:
- Internet Perimeter Security – establishing the exposure of Internet facing systems, presence of appropriately secure firewall controls and security posture of those systems.
- Access and Authentication Controls – validation of appropriate authentication mechanism to protect an organisation’s application or infrastructure from unauthorised access.
- Security Patch Management – verification of the application of security patches across Operating system and application.
- Malware and Endpoint Protection – a review of the presence and effectiveness of anti-virus and endpoint protection solutions.
- Secure Configuration – checks to ensure systems are configured in the most secure way and common vulnerabilities through implementation weaknesses have been addressed.
Cyber Essentials Pre-assessments
Netlogic undertake a gap analysis to measure the organisations existing controls against what is required by Cyber Essentials. Having conducted this assessment, the organisation with a clear road map on how to bridge the gaps and reduce their risks associated with a cyber breach.