Cyber Essentials Self-Managed

A self-managed route for organisations that only require CE certification and are confident completing the questionnaire independently, without any assessor support.  This offering includes access to URM’s Abriska platform, which provides embedded question guidance and contextual advice.  

Questionnaire Submission and Cyber Essentials Assessment

You complete the questionnaire independently and submit it through the Abriska platform, where it will be marked by an experienced URM assessor.

Where non-compliant responses are identified, feedback will be provided directly within the Abriska platform.  This allows you to review, update, and resubmit the questionnaire as required.  As with the Guided offering, up to 4 submission attempts are included.  If the submission remains non-compliant on the 4^th attempt, the assessment will be marked as a fail and a new CE application will be required to restart the process.

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 of the assessment, you have the option to upgrade to the Cyber Essentials Guided or Assured offerings if you decide you will benefit from speaking directly with an assessor and receiving tailored advice and guidance.  Our objective is to support your success at every stage.

This option is only intended for experienced applicants who do not expect to progress to CE+.  It does not include advisory meetings, scope definition support, or assessor led questionnaire feedback sessions.

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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