What is the difference between Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus?

Cyber Essentials Plus is an addendum to Cyber Essentials and is aimed at ensuring that all the controls highlighted in the Cyber Essentials self-assessment questionnaire are in place.

Cyber Essentials Plus does not contain any additional requirements when compared to Cyber Essentials.

We are extremely grateful for the outstanding support the URM Team provided throughout our Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus journey. Their professionalism, technical expertise, and pragmatic guidance were key to our successful certification. We would like to call out a personal thanks to our assessor, who was particularly impressive throughout. From the initial assessment through remediation and validation, he demonstrated clear expertise, practical recommendations, and strong communication. This, coupled with his thoroughness, responsiveness, and collaborative approach, made the process efficient for our whole team.
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Cyber Essentials Questions Answered: Technical Requirements, BYOD Compliance and the Future of the Scheme

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5 Jun
2026

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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5/6/2026
Complying with Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus

URM’s blog answers key technical questions about Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus, what’s in scope, CE compliant use of BYOD, and more.

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5/6/2026
Cyber Essentials – What’s Changing in 2025?

URM’s blog discusses upcoming changes to Cyber Essentials, including the changes seen in the Willow Question Set and how they may impact your organisation.

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Cyber Security
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5/6/2026
Access Control, Administrative Accounts and Password-Based Authentication in the Cyber Essentials SAQ

URM’s blog offers advice on answering questions in the Cyber Essentials SAQ which relate to access control, admin accounts and authentication methods.

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We are delighted to partner with URM Consulting on a wide range of information and cyber security projects and service solutions. Working with URM Consulting has proved to be extremely successful, with them consulting / advising clients and then utilising our SMART Services. These are specifically aimed at supporting organisations to achieve Detection, Compliance & Response (DCR) to support Digital Transformation outcomes. In addition, we have achieved Cyber Essentials certification with URM and are now partnering on ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus projects. We have been impressed by the breadth of URM’s governance, risk, compliance and technical expertise along with their holistic, pragmatic and tailored advice.
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