In order to achieve Cyber Essentials Plus, you must already be certified to Cyber Essentials. Gaining the extra qualification will also involve a technical expert conducting an on-site or remote audit on your IT systems, including a representative set of user devices, all Internet gateways and all servers with services accessible to unauthenticated Internet users.
The assessor will test a random sample of these systems, in line with the test specification, and then decide whether further testing is required. Having achieved Cyber Essentials, you have 3 months to apply for Cyber Essentials Plus.
If it is longer than 3 months, you will need to repeat the Cyber Essentials self-assessment questionnaire stage.
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The feedback on URM’s report was that it was the best document the developer had ever received due to it being so concise and clear. He has saved it on his desktop and suggested that the business should use a similar template for internal docs. This great feedback reflects not only on the URM penetration tester who conducted the test, but also on the senior members of URM’s Cyber Team for all the work they have put in to producing such a brilliant reporting template.
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