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The Importance of The Cyber Essentials Scheme
The Cyber Essentials Scheme is a UK-based certification program that aims to help organisations improve their cybersecurity posture and protect themselves from common cyber threats. The scheme covers five core pillars of security: secure configuration, boundary firewalls, access controls, patch management, and malware protection. By implementing these controls, organisations can reduce the risk and impact of cyber attacks, which affect 32% of UK businesses and cost around £736 million in 2021. The scheme also offers benefits such as enhanced market reputation, lower cyber insurance premiums, and compliance with government contracts. The Cyber Essentials Scheme is therefore an essential certification for any organisation operating in the UK, regardless of size or sector.
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Defining controls by expectation may result in exploitation
One of the significant factors influencing SMEs when selecting security controls is not pragmatic risk management and risk treatment, or even common industry frameworks, as you might imagine - but security controls expected by customers. Supply-chain security management through due diligence activities is often reasonable for this approach, but the one-size-fits-all approach can lead to weaker security models.
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Cyber Essentials De-Perimeterised
In 2004, a ragtag fugitive fleet of CISOs created an international group working to define and promote the concept of de-perimeterisation, known as the Jericho Forum. Ten years on, after many valuable contributions to the security industry, it was declared a success and was finally sunsetted in October 2013. In the summer that followed, the UK Cyber Essentials scheme was launched – the Government-backed scheme designed to help organisations protect themselves against common online threats. It rather heavily focused on the importance of well-configured boundary firewalls and border routers in the office and at home! If only the walls of the Jericho Forum had stayed up for a few more months!
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