Background
IASME Cyber Baseline (ICB) is an international cyber hygiene certification scheme that tackles the basic, but critical, cyber security protection measures for organisations outside the UK.
The standard leads the way to offer global supply chains a standardised and respected certification to show that organisations have the critical cyber hygiene measures in place.
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IASME Cyber Baseline maps to a number of international cyber hygiene standards and best practices, to which there has formerly been no way of demonstrating compliance because they do not have assessments and certification associated with them.
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For organisations based outside the UK, IASME Cyber Baseline can be used as a prerequisite to the next step of certifying to the comprehensive risk based and policy driven standard, IASME Cyber Assurance.
If you are based in the UK, Cyber Essentials is the recommended minimum certification.
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Requirements
How to gain ICB
The ICB standard comprises 8 themes that an organisation needs to implement and these relate to Organisation, Assets, Secure Architecture, Training People, Technical Intrusion, Backup & Restore, Managing Access, and Resilience. Essentially it is all about understanding the systems in use and making sure the configurations have been properly implemented.
The ICB certification is achieved by self-certifying compliance via an online portal submission. The requirements are set out in preparation document available for download.
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Getting started
The ICB process is started by applying for an online portal account.
The prices vary according to the organisation size.
Please use this link to sign up - ICB Sign Options​