Spear Shield achieves Cyber Essentials Plus

Company News 12-Oct-2022 16:03:45 Max Harper 2 min read

✔️ It's a big tick for the Spears!

The team at Spear Shield are delighted to announce that we have passed our Cyber Essentials Plus Certification.

"Security is our bread and butter, and it's great to have the government backed recognition for our internal security controls to be able to provide assurance to our customers." ~ Josh Broadbent, Spear Shield CTO.

Source: NCSC.gov.uk

What is Cyber Essentials?

Cyber Essentials is an effective, Government backed scheme that will help you to protect your organisation, whatever its size, against a whole range of the most common cyber attacks.

Cyber attacks come in many shapes and sizes, but the vast majority are very basic in nature, carried out by relatively unskilled individuals. They’re the digital equivalent of a thief trying your front door to see if it’s unlocked. Our advice is designed to prevent these attacks.

There are two levels of certification:

Cyber Essentials

Our self-assessment option gives you protection against a wide variety of the most common cyber attacks. This is important because vulnerability to basic attacks can mark you out as target for more in-depth unwanted attention from cyber criminals and others.

Certification gives you peace of mind that your defences will protect against the vast majority of common cyber attacks simply because these attacks are looking for targets which do not have the Cyber Essentials technical controls in place.

Cyber Essentials shows you how to address those basics and prevent the most common attacks.

Cyber Essentials Plus

Cyber Essentials Plus still has the Cyber Essentials trademark simplicity of approach, and the protections you need to put in place are the same, but for Cyber Essentials Plus a hands-on technical verification is carried out.

Why should you get Cyber Essentials?

Certified cyber security

Reassure customers that you are working to secure your IT against cyber attack
Attract new business with the promise you have cyber security measures in place
You have a clear picture of your organisation's cyber security level
Some Government contracts require Cyber Essentials certification

About Spear Shield

Here at Spear Shield, we are continuing to invest in our goal to create one of the most cyber-secure client communities in Suffolk, East Anglia and across the UK.

Our approach is to work closely with IT teams and business leaders to help identify cyber risk, understand core business drivers and challenge the conventional approaches to legacy cybersecurity strategies to enable our customers to exceed their cybersecurity goals.

Spear Shield has a portfolio of award-winning cybersecurity solutions and services that we align to enable our customers to be able to solve even the most complex and advanced cybersecurity challenges.

The team at Spear Shield specialises in:
- Mitigating the risk of social engineering attacks and human-activated cyber risk
- Real-time asset discovery, device security and compliance
- 24/7 Managed Threat Hunting and proactive Incident Response

If you would like to learn why organisations are choosing to secure with Spear Shield, please do contact a member of the team to arrange a confidential conversation today.

The team has several year's experience working within both the private and public sector, have a very consultative approach and would welcome the opportunity to learn more about your organisation.

Contact details:
Telephone - 01473 948980
Email enquiries - hello@spearshield.co.uk

Max Harper

As CEO and Co-Founder, Max is dedicated to Spear Shield’s mission of creating one of the most cyber secure client communities across Suffolk, East Anglia, and the UK. By working closely with business leaders and IT Teams, Max’s approach is to understand core business drivers, challenge the conventional approaches to cybersecurity strategies and enable our customers to articulate risk and exceed their cybersecurity needs.