The latest cyber essentials
Cyber Essentials provides organisations with a recognised baseline for good cyber hygiene. The latest updates strengthen the scheme and place greater focus on areas such as MFA, cloud services and patching.
But there is still an important limitation.
Cyber Essentials is a point-in-time assessment.
An organisation may successfully demonstrate compliance during an assessment, but security environments change every day. New users join, devices are added, software is updated and new vulnerabilities emerge.
A control that was working six months ago may no longer be working today.
That's why organisations should view Cyber Essentials as a foundation rather than a destination.
At Solis, our teams help organisations identify security gaps, monitor emerging threats and ensure key controls remain effective long after an assessment has been completed. Experience shows that many successful attacks are not caused by a lack of security controls, but by controls that have drifted, been misconfigured or simply not been maintained over time.
Cyber Essentials demonstrates that the right controls were in place on the day of assessment. Continuous monitoring helps ensure they remain effective every day after that.
Real cyber resilience comes from maintaining security every day, not just when certification is due.
Contact our team today at ask@solissecurity.com and we'll be happy to tell you more about how we can protect your business.
