​Choosing the right cyber security provider matters.

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is the UK's National Technical Authority for cyber security. Through its assurance schemes, the NCSC defines standards for cyber security services and assesses providers against those standards, helping organisations identify services they can trust.

As an NCSC Assured Service Provider, Cyber Strategies can provide organisations with practical cyber security support through appropriately qualified professionals.

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What is an Assured Service Provider?

An Assured Service Provider is an organisation that has met the requirements for delivering services under a specific NCSC assurance scheme.

For the Cyber Advisor scheme, organisations must demonstrate appropriate cyber security and quality management arrangements and employ or contract professionals who are qualified to deliver the service. 

For customers, this provides additional confidence that the organisation providing their cyber security advice operates to recognised security and quality standards.

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What does NCSC assurance mean for you?

Working with an Assured Service Provider gives you confidence that important aspects of the organisation providing your cyber security advice have been independently assessed.

For the Cyber Advisor scheme, this includes requirements surrounding:

Security

Providers must demonstrate appropriate cyber security standards and maintain Cyber Essentials certification. 

Quality

Providers must demonstrate appropriate quality-management arrangements designed to help ensure customers receive a consistent, high-quality service.

Expertise

An Assured Service Provider delivering the Cyber Advisor service must employ or contract at least one appropriately qualified Cyber Advisor. 

Professional protection

Providers must also maintain specified commercial insurance. The current Cyber Advisor scheme requirements include at least £1 million of the required commercial insurance cover.

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NCSC Cyber Advisor

One of the services delivered through the NCSC assurance framework is Cyber Advisor.

The scheme has been developed to provide organisations with access to reliable and cost-effective cyber security advice and practical support, particularly around implementing the five Cyber Essentials technical controls. 

Importantly, an NCSC-assured Cyber Advisor service can only be offered through an approved Assured Service Provider.

Need practical help improving your cyber security?

Our Cyber Advisor service can help you understand your current position, identify improvements and put appropriate technical controls into practice.

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Find out more about our Cyber Advisor service

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Practical cyber security, not just certification

Good cyber security isn't simply about achieving a certificate.

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It is about understanding how your organisation operates, identifying weaknesses and putting proportionate controls in place to reduce the risk of common cyber attacks.

Cyber Strategies can help you take a structured approach:

Understand your current position → Identify weaknesses → Make practical improvements → Cyber Essentials → Cyber Essentials Plus → Wider cyber assurance

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The objective is to help you improve your actual cyber resilience, with certification providing independent recognition of the controls you have implemented.

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Start your cyber security journey

Whether you're unsure where to begin, need help implementing Cyber Essentials controls, or want to progress towards Cyber Essentials Plus, Cyber Strategies can help.

Talk to us about where your organisation is today and where you want to be.

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