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Why is Cyber Essentials important?
A decade of Cyber Essentials - the benefits and challenges of a rapidly growing scheme It's ten years since the UK Government launched Cyber Essentials to give organisations of all sizes a way to demonstrate they had the most important technical cyber security controls in place and to help make...
Guidance
BlockMark Registry Certificates – A User’s Guide
Secure digital certificates for the IASME schemes IASME issues approximately 700 certificates a week to organisations...
Cyber Essentials
Why is Cyber Essentials important?
A decade of Cyber Essentials - the benefits and challenges of a rapidly growing scheme It's ten years since the UK Government launched Cyber...
IASME Cyber Assurance
Multi-award-winning nursery group, Family Adventures certifies its IT infrastructure to Cyber Essentials and IASME Cyber Assurance
Family Adventures Group is a UK based group of 7 day nurseries and 3 indoor play centres in the South West and West Midlands. Founded by husband and...
Cyber Advisor
IASME Cyber Baseline
What is an Assured Service Provider?
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) was formed by the government in 2016 as the UK’s technical authority for cyber security. As threats from...
The 8 Themes of IASME Cyber Baseline – Organisation
What is this theme about? Most organisations use an IT product or service provided by someone else. An example might be Office 365, a social media...
Maritime Cyber Baseline
Sea World Management certify one of their cable layer fleets to IASME Maritime Cyber Baseline
ME Maritime Cyber Baseline is a cyber security certification scheme for maritime vessels of all sizes and classifications. Certification gives...
Internet of Things
What is a consumer connected device?
How do I know if it is in scope for PSTI legislation? The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022 (PSTI) came into...
Civil Aviation Assure
Frazer-Nash gains CAA aviation cyber security accreditation through IASME
Systems, engineering and technology company, Frazer-Nash Consultancy, a KBR company, has become one of the first companies to be accredited for the...
Sectors
Why is it important for the legal sector to fully address their cyber security?
The average lawyer does not have the time to spend nights worrying about the...
Guidance for Legal Practices – The Who, How and What to do of Cyber Attacks
The legal sector deals with valuable and often confidential data, it...
Interview with a Multi-Academy Trust that passed Cyber Essentials
We spoke with the director of IT for a multi-academy trust about the experience of certifying to Cyber Essentials as well as the technical and administrative challenges in managing the growing cyber...
Schools Under Attack
There is a concerning rise in cyber attacks against schools, to the point that an educational establishment is more likely to suffer a cyber security breach than the average business in the UK. 58%...
