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Achieving Cyber Essentials Compliance Made Easy with Heimdal®
Learn how Heimdal can facilitate your UK-based organization in achieving Cyber Essentials compliance quickly and efficiently.
What is
Cyber Essentials?
Cyber Essentials is a practical, government-backed scheme that will assist you in protecting your organization, no matter how large or small, against a wide range of common cyber attacks.
Cyber attacks come in various shapes and sizes, but the vast majority are straightforward and carried out by relatively unskilled individuals. They're the digital equivalent of a thief checking to see if your front door is unlocked. Cyber Essentials’ advice is to keep these attacks from happening.
Cyber Essentials comes with two levels of certifications:
1. Cyber Essentials
The Cyber Essentials certificate is a self-assessment option that safeguards you against various cyber attacks. This is significant because security flaws can make you a target for unwanted attention from cyber criminals.
Because these attacks are looking for targets that do not have the Cyber Essentials technical controls in place, the Cyber Essentials certification gives you peace of mind that your defenses will protect you against the vast majority of common cyber attacks.
2. Cyber Essentials Plus
The Cyber Essentials Plus certification retains the Cyber Essentials trademark simplicity of approach, and the protections you must implement remain the same. The Cyber Essentials Plus certificate includes hands-on technical verification.
Alternatively, with this certification, you can become acquainted with cyber security terminology, gaining sufficient knowledge to begin securing your IT systems.
Who is Cyber Essentials for?
Cyber Essentials is a globally recognized IT security standard developed by the United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre that is used to ensure the security of IT software and processes and the protection of organizations from data breaches and leaks.
It assists the UK's most critical organizations, the wider public sector, industry, SMEs, and the general public. When incidents occur, they provide an effective incident response to minimize harm to the UK, aid recovery and teach future lessons.
Territories: the UK.
Cyber Essentials Goals & Components
Cyber Essentials’ main goal is to guard your organization against cyber attack. The scheme is a government initiative designed to help organizations of all sizes defend themselves against the most common cyber threats.
To accomplish this goal, Cyber Essentials covers the following cybersecurity areas:
Firewalls
Malware Protection
Patch Management
Secure Configuration
User Access Control
With Heimdal products, you are getting coverage across all relevant areas.
Many non-governmental organizations rely on Cyber Essentials to win or accept contracts from the UK government. As a result, Cyber Essentials is one of the requirements for being fully compliant and providing services to the UK government. Organizations can achieve cybersecurity protection, comply with regulations, and demonstrate trustworthiness to stakeholders by focusing on these five key areas.
Heimdal®’s Coverage of Cyber Essentials
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Covered by Heimdal |
Internal Coverage Required | Not Covered by Heimdal |
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| Firewall rule enforcement & management |
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| Unauthenticated connection blocking |
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| User account removal |
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| Application control |
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| File execution prevention |
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| User authentication |
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| Password-based authentication |
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| Multi-factor authentication |
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| Privileges de escalation |
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| Automatic file scanning for malware |
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| Automatic web page scanning for malware |
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| Pre-approved list of executable applications |
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| Unknown code sandboxing |
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| Vulnerability management |
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| Automated updating & patching |
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| Company wide Firewall documentation |
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| Password hygiene policy |
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| Device locking controls |
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| Separation of administrative accounts |
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Staying Cyber Essentials Compliant with Heimdal®
STRENGTHEN YOUR DEFENSES WITH COMBINED CYBERSECURITY MEASURES
Simplify compliance with Heimdal's comprehensive cybersecurity solutions that will guide your organization toward achieving and maintaining Cyber Essentials compliance.
