In the process of achieving a Cyber Essentials certificate, your organisation is effectively protecting itself against approximately 80% of the most common cyber attacks.
This provides reassurance to your clients that you take cyber security seriously and have implemented a strong set of relevant controls and measures.
Cyber Essentials certification will also help you attract new business opportunities and will help you satisfy those public sector and Government contracts that require CE to be in place.
A very practical benefit for organisations certifying to Cyber Essentials is the cyber insurance cover that comes with the certificate.
If your organisation is domiciled in the UK with a turnover under £20m, a certification scope covering the whole of your organisation and you opt-in, you are entitled to Cyber Liability Insurance which gives you £25,000 limit of indemnity (terms apply).
Having achieved certification to Cyber Essentials, you will be listed on a directory of certificate organisations which is operated by IASME, the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC’s) Cyber Essentials Partner, responsible for the delivery of the scheme.

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

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

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.

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