Cyber Essentials Plus: What RenKap's Certification Means for You
RenKap is certified to Cyber Essentials Plus, the UK Government’s audited cyber security standard. The Plus level is not a self-assessment. An independent assessor tested our live systems hands on and signed off the result. For anyone buying from us, it gives them the confidence that our security infrastructure is up to standard.
Why It Matters
RenKap holds site data. Addresses, ownership, pre-planning constraints, draft survey reports. Clients want to know that their information is suitably protected and won’t accidentally go public without consent.
Cyber Essentials is also a condition of being on central government frameworks like G-cloud. Getting through it independently, at the Plus level, is the part that carries weight
What Cyber Essentials Plus Actually Tests
Cyber Essentials covers five technical controls: firewalls, secure configuration, user access control, malware protection and security update management. Both levels of the scheme cover the same five. The difference is who checks, and how.
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Cyber Essentials
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Cyber Essentials Plus
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How it is verified
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Self-assessment questionnaire, reviewed by a certification body
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Independent technical audit by a qualified assessor
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What gets checked
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Your self-assessment questionnaire
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Your live systems and devices, tested directly
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Controls covered
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Your self-assessment questionnaire
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Firewalls, secure configuration, user access control, malware protection and security update management independently verified.
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Certificate valid for
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12 months
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12 months
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Self-assessment relies on the supplier marking their own homework. The Plus audit gives clients the additional comfort that an expert has deemed our security infrastructure compliant.
What This Means in Practice
Our client’s IT team gets instant comfort that our security infrastructure will meet their needs.
Need the certificate? We can send the Cyber Essentials Plus certificate and the certification body’s reference so your assurance team can verify it independently rather than take our word for it.
What's Next
We will continue to build strong cyber security credentials into our offering and will be looking to get further certifications such as ISO certificates in the next 12 months.
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