Cyber Essentials After Danzell: What Our Assessors Are Seeing

Reading the updated requirements is one thing. Knowing how an assessor will apply them to your setup is another, and that's where certifications stall.

Secarma's assessors share what they're seeing across real Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus assessments: getting scope right across legal entities, cloud services and exclusions, MFA coverage across all your cloud services, and evidencing that patching genuinely meets the requirement. They also cover the changes to Cyber Essentials Plus sampling and how fixes get checked across scope.

The practical end is what evidence to have ready before the assessment starts, and what you can do now to avoid delays. Useful whether you certify yourself or coordinate it with an external IT provider.

Worth adding that I've attended a fair few Secarma sessions and they consistently stay on the informative side rather than turning into a sales pitch.