What is Cyber Essentials Plus?

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.

We engaged URM to help us on our journey to achieve Cyber Essentials Plus. From the outset the engagement with URM was excellent. The online portal made the CE assessment seamless. The assessors were professional and courteous and went above and beyond to help us through the process.
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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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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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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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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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We regularly work with URM to achieve Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certifications, for us and our clients. We couldn’t be more impressed with their service. From start to finish, their team provided expert guidance, making the entire process seamless and stress-free.
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