How long do the Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certifications last before you need to renew them?

Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certificates expire after 12 months and will need to be renewed. If you don’t renew, your organisation will be removed from the NCSC’s ‘certified organisations’ list.

Our experience with URM was all around great and seamless, starting with our account manager who organised everything and was very accommodating, working around our schedule and fitting us in as soon as we wanted. This continued with our assessor for the CE questionnaire part; he was very helpful, taking the time to explain some aspects that were a bit unclear to me and guiding me the whole way through. The same was true of our assessor for the CE+, who took the time to answer any questions I had beforehand and guide me through elements that I was unfamiliar with. During the assessment, he was very helpful, made the process very easy and guided me through some points that needed some additional set up in order to ensure a successful process. This was our first year working with URM and I am sure we’ll be talking again next year. Thank you for all your help!
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We want to pass on our thanks to our URM assessor for helping us with the assessment. He made it really very straightforward for us during the remote sessions and during the follow ups to understand what we needed to do to remediate the issues and obtain the certification. He understood our setup and gave us relevant advice, it was a pleasure working with him.
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