Cyber Essentials changes, explained in your inbox.
Scheme updates, end-of-support dates and preparation tips from the assessors who mark Cyber Essentials. Free, email only, and no sales sequence.
A Cyber Essentials newsletter keeps you current on a scheme that changes every year. It covers new question sets and requirements versions, IASME and NCSC announcements, software leaving vendor support, common assessment failures, and what to re-check before renewal, so your next submission is answered against the rules in force.
What is in the newsletter?
Six kinds of update, each tied to what you need to answer correctly at your next assessment.
Scheme updates
New question sets and requirements versions, explained by question number. The current baseline is Requirements v3.3 with the Danzell question set v16.3.
IASME and NCSC announcements
Fee changes, rule changes and guidance updates from the bodies that own and deliver the scheme, with links to the original notice.
End-of-support alerts
Operating systems and applications leaving vendor support, so unsupported software does not fail your next assessment.
Practical preparation tips
What assessors are seeing fail in recent assessments, and the settings and evidence that fix it.
New guides and tools
New setup guides, checklists and free tools on this site, when they are published.
Renewal reminders
A certificate lasts 12 months. Reminders on what to re-check before you renew, especially after a scheme change.
How often will you hear from us?
It is planned as a monthly email. A scheme change that affects your next submission may bring an extra one. Nothing else.
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The official NCSC requirements and the IASME scheme pages are the versions of record. Our change log tracks every version on this site.
Frequently asked questions
It is planned as a monthly email. When IASME or the NCSC publish a change that affects your next submission, it may go out sooner. We do not send for the sake of it.
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