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.

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Supplementing Cyber Essentials

Published on
11 Jul
2025

URM’s blog outlines the practical measures you can take following Cyber Essentials certification to further enhance your information & cyber security posture.

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Cyber Security
Published on
3/7/2025
Understanding Lexcel and the Specialist Quality Mark (SQM): How Cyber Essentials Can Benefit Your Practice

URM’s blog explores how Cyber Essentials can help your legal practice enhance its security posture and achieve/maintain its SQM or Lexcel accreditation.

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Cyber Security
Published on
26/6/2025
Cyber Essentials Questions Answered: Technical Requirements, BYOD Compliance and the Future of the Scheme

URM’s blog answers key questions about CE, focusing specifically on its technical requirements, use of BYOD, and how the scheme may change in the future.

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Cyber Security
Published on
16/6/2025
Lexcel: Deconstructing Your Information Management and Security Policy

URM explains each control law firms must include in an information management and security policy that complies with the Lexcel Practice Management Standard.

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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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