The following checklist applies to both Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus requirements, the difference being that with the latter a technical expert conducts a vulnerability scan and remote audit of your IT systems, including a representative set of user devices, all Internet gateways and all servers with services accessible to unauthenticated Internet users.
The questions that will need to be answered include:
- Are all of your operating systems supported including phones, tablets, servers, workstations etc…?
- Have all the security patches been applied to the operating systems?
- Is your Office suite up to date? Is your anti-malware up to date?
- Are your browsers up to date with security patches?
- Have you disabled auto-run?
- Have you disabled remote scripts from being run?
- Are all of your applications up to date with security patches?
- Are all the applications used in the organisation supported?

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