Cyber Essentials Guided

A guided route for your organisation if you only require CE certification and want an assessor to review your questionnaire, provide structured feedback, and help you understand why your responses are non-compliant and what actions you need to take before resubmission.  This offering does not include the scope definition support required for CE + assessments and is therefore suitable for CE certification only.  If seeking CE+, please refer to URM’s Cyber Essentials PLUS Assured offering.

Questionnaire Completion and Feedback Review

With the Cyber Essentials Guided offering you can gain access to the Abriska platform with embedded question guidance to help you complete the CE questionnaire.  Once you have completed and submitted it for review, the experienced URM assessor will conduct an in-depth review of all responses and arrange a structured 1-hour questionnaire feedback session via Microsoft Teams.

During this session, the URM assessor will help you clearly demonstrate your compliance, supporting you in avoiding ambiguous responses that could otherwise be interpreted as not fully meeting CE requirements.  

Final Submission and Cyber Essentials Assessment

Having attended the questionnaire feedback session, you can make any changes required and submit it through the Abriska platform, where it will be marked by an experienced URM assessor.

Up to 4 submission attempts are included, in line with NCSC guidance.  If you are still non-compliant after the third attempt, you will have the opportunity to take part in a 10 minute call with the URM assessor to discuss specific issues within the questionnaire.  

Once a compliant submission has been achieved, you will be notified via the Abriska platform and can arrange senior management sign off.  This ensures sign off is only required once the questionnaire is confirmed to be accurate and compliant.  At any stage, you may convert to the Assured offering to access the recommended level of support for the smoothest Cyber Essentials certification experience.

What is the cost?

Pricing as of 27 April 2026:

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*adopts the internationally recognised definition for micro, small, medium and large enterprises

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Why URM?

As an accredited certification body, URM has an unrivalled record in assisting organisations of all sizes achieve certification to Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus. URM is also an accredited Assured Service Provider under the NCSC Cyber Advisor scheme  and  has a large team of experienced, pragmatic assessors who are here to support you and guide you through the process.

Not only do we bring a wealth of cyber security knowledge, but also a wide and varied experience of all the leading cyber and information security standards.

As such, you can be assured that you are getting advice that is right for you and your organisation, taking into account your sector, size and the information you are looking to protect. Our large team of assessors also enables us to guarantee a super-fast turnaround.

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