Cyber Essentials
Cyber Essentials Certification in Gloucestershire
Get certified without guesswork. We help you meet the Cyber Essentials requirements, complete the submission properly, and get your business ready for renewals.
Expert-led Cyber Essentials support.
Cyber Essentials certification for businesses across Gloucestershire, including Gloucester, Cheltenham and Stroud. Cyber Essentials is a UK Government-backed scheme supported by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), designed to protect organisations against common cyber threats.
We help you put the required controls in place across your devices, user accounts and network, then guide you through Cyber Essentials or Cyber Essentials Plus so your submission reflects how you actually work and you can get certified with minimal disruption.
Cyber Essentials, Made Practical
Our packages cover:
Readiness Review
Secure Configuration
MFA and Access Control
Patching and Supported Software
Cyber Essentials Plus Prep
What Cyber Essentials Covers
Our responsive IT helpdesk offers remote and on-site IT support. With a proactive approach, we professionally deal with IT issues before they become an unwanted disruption.
Whether it’s a login error or server downtime, network issue or lost emails, our experienced technicians troubleshoot quickly and efficiently. By using smart management tools, we proactively monitor your systems, giving you ultimate peace of mind that your systems are being looked after responsibly.
A clear route to Cyber Essentials in Gloucestershire.
Cyber Essentials has a simple goal: prove you’ve got the basic controls in place to reduce common cyber risks. Where businesses get stuck is scope, inconsistent settings across devices, and answers that don’t match what’s actually deployed.
We take a practical approach. We review what’s in scope, identify what will fail the assessment (for example MFA gaps, patching, unsupported software, admin access issues), and help you fix it. Then we support the submission for Cyber Essentials or prepare you for the independent checks required for Cyber Essentials Plus, keeping disruption to a minimum.
Scope Check
We confirm what’s in scope for certification, including users, devices, remote working, cloud services and any third-party IT support.
Readiness Review
We check your setup against the Cyber Essentials requirements and flag what is likely to fail, before you submit anything.
Fix List
You get a clear list of changes, ordered by what blocks certification first, with the least disruption to day-to-day work.
Implementation Support
We help apply the changes across accounts, devices and network settings, including MFA, admin access, patching and secure configuration.
Submission Support
We guide the questionnaire and evidence so your answers match what’s actually deployed and stay consistent throughout.
Plus and Renewal Ready
If you need Cyber Essentials Plus, we prepare you for the independent tests. If not, we can keep things tidy for renewal next year.
Cyber Essentials Certification in Gloucestershire
Need Cyber Essentials certification in Gloucestershire?
Send us your deadline and a rough outline of your setup (users, devices, remote working). We’ll tell you what’s realistic and what needs fixing first.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cyber Essentials certification?
Cyber Essentials is a UK government-backed certification that proves your business has the basic technical controls in place to defend against the most common cyber attacks. It covers five technical areas: firewalls, secure configuration, user access control, malware protection and patch management. Certification gives you a recognised badge that’s now required for many UK government contracts, and is increasingly expected by enterprise clients in their supplier frameworks. For most SMEs it’s the cheapest, fastest way to show your cyber security basics are properly in place.
What's the difference between Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus?
Cyber Essentials is a self-assessment. You complete the questionnaire, an external assessor reviews it, you get certified. Cyber Essentials Plus covers the same five controls but is independently verified by a hands-on technical audit, including external vulnerability scans and a sample of your end-user devices. Plus is harder to pass and carries more weight on larger contracts and tenders. We help SMEs across Gloucester, Cheltenham and Stroud achieve both, depending on what your clients or contracts actually require.
How long does Cyber Essentials certification take?
Most businesses are certified within two to six weeks of starting. The questionnaire itself takes a few hours, but most companies need to fix a few things first. Typically that’s around multi-factor authentication, software patching, admin access or device security. We run a readiness check upfront, sort the gaps with you, and only submit when we’re confident it’ll pass cleanly. That’s faster than rushing a submission, failing on a control, and starting again, which is what catches a lot of businesses out.
How much does Cyber Essentials cost in Gloucestershire?
The certification fee itself is set by IASME (the body that runs the scheme) and depends on company size. Small businesses with up to nine staff pay £320 + VAT, scaling up from there. Where costs vary is the preparation work to get you ready. Some businesses pass the questionnaire as-is; others need a few days of remediation across patching, MFA or device controls. We give you a fixed price for the full job upfront covering readiness, fixes and certification, so there are no surprise bills.
Who needs Cyber Essentials certification?
Cyber Essentials is mandatory for any business bidding for UK central government contracts that involve handling personal information or providing certain ICT services. It’s also required by the Ministry of Defence and increasingly built into supplier frameworks for larger private sector clients, especially in finance, healthcare and professional services. Even when it’s not mandatory for your sector, certification is useful for cyber insurance applications, supplier due-diligence questionnaires, and ISO 27001 prep. It’s the lowest-cost, highest-credibility way to prove your security basics are sorted.
Can you support Cyber Essentials Plus across Gloucester, Cheltenham and Stroud?
Yes. We support businesses across Gloucestershire with both Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus, including Gloucester, Cheltenham, Stroud and the surrounding area. The process is the same to start: readiness assessment, fix the gaps (MFA, patching, device controls, admin access management), then run you through the questionnaire and assessment. For Cyber Essentials Plus we also coordinate the technical audit and prepare your devices for the external vulnerability scans, so the assessment itself runs smoothly without any avoidable failures.