What is Cyber Essentials?

Cyber Essentials is a simple but effective, Government backed scheme that will help you to protect your organisation, whatever its size, against a whole range of the most common cyber attacks.

Cyber attacks come in many shapes and sizes, but the vast majority are very basic in nature, carried out by relatively unskilled individuals. They’re the digital equivalent of a thief trying your front door to see if it’s unlocked. Our advice is designed to prevent these attacks.

Getting the basics in place gives you a strong foundation for building increased resilience against more sophisticated attacks and provides confidence to your customers that you take cyber security seriously.

What We'll Cover

In this webinar, we'll talk through the Cyber Essentials framework and what strategies we can put in place to reduce our attack surface, aligning with the Cyber Essentials Framework.

• Firewalls
• Device Security
• Access Controls
• Malware Protection
• Patching

We've also asked Rob Cowgill, from West Yorkshire Police, to join us and share his experience of the current threat landscape. Rob's role as a Cyber Protect Officer means he works with businesses and educational institutions around West Yorkshire helping them to understand the fundamentals of cyber security to protect their organisations from attack.

About Cognisys

Founded in 2019 through the partnership between a former national Managed Service Provider owner and an industry leader in cyber security penetration testing. Cognisys Group Ltd experienced rapid growth within their first year. Pandemic aside, newly onboarded customers increased through 2020 which has now allowed further expansion of the business in 2021.

Cognisys Group hold all expected industry recognised certification of Cyber Essentials Plus, ISO27001, ISO9001, IASME Gold and CREST.

The Halifax based company provides its clients with a holistic approach to cyber security. Preferring to provide a partnership with clients, Cognisys Group act as an extension to client’s existing IT department. Our mission statement is “To improve the cyber security posture of every single company we touch”. We achieve this through an honest, fair and professional approach with each and every client.

The portfolio of services include, but are not limited to:

• External, Internal and Wireless Network Penetration Testing

• Web & Mobile Application Penetration Testing

• Cyber Essentials Certification

• ISO27001 Consultancy

• Simulated Phishing Attack

• Red Team Assessment

Cognisys Group come highly recommended by every client we have engaged with and welcome any enquiries from new businesses looking to improve their cyber security maturity.