Cyber Essentials scope: what's in, what's out, and why it comes first
Before you answer a single technical question in Cyber Essentials, you need to decide what the assessment covers. That's the scope. The NCSC's advice is to set the boundary of...
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Lords Report Stage: 5 CSRB questions for UK MSPs
Five questions MSPs should track on the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill from Lords Report Stage onwards.
What's happened?
Pick the one thing in front of you, and start there.
- I think I've been scammed
- My account's been hacked
- We've had a data breach
- A supplier says their bank details changed
- A customer sent us a security questionnaire
- A customer asked for Cyber Essentials
- We're filling in a cyber insurance form
- Someone complained about how we used their data
- Someone asked for the data we hold on them
- I'm helping an older relative avoid scams
- Someone's joining or leaving the team
- We're not sure where to start