Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus readiness, gap assessment and hands-on remediation — so you pass first time. We prepare and pre-validate; the certificate is assessed and issued through our IASME-accredited Certification Body partner.
Veteran-owned · human-led · aligned to OWASP / NIST / PTES · AETOS-supported CE+ pre-validation
The Cyber Essentials & CE+ arm of Forefront IT Security Services — a trading name of Forefront IT Security Services Ltd.
The self-assessed foundation and the independently-audited upgrade. We get you ready for both.
The UK Government-backed baseline covering the five technical controls that stop the most common internet-borne attacks. We check your estate against each, close the gaps, and get your self-assessment questionnaire submission-ready.
Everything in Cyber Essentials, then a hands-on technical audit that verifies the controls actually work on a sample of your devices. We run a full CE+ dry run first so there are no surprises on assessment day.
Our own plain-English checklist of what to have in place before you certify. For the official questionnaire, we point you to the current IASME question set.
We test the way an assessor will, so failures surface in a dry run — not on the day the clock and the invoice are running.
An AETOS-supported pre-validation of your sampled devices against the CE+ test spec, so nothing unexpected shows up in the real audit.
We hand you remediation you can act on and help you close it — a shorter route to a genuine pass, not a longer list of problems.
Define the estate in scope and establish where you stand today.
Test against the five controls and the CE+ spec; document every gap.
Fix the gaps with hands-on guidance, not just a report to action.
A full CE+ dry run on sampled devices to confirm you're ready.
Assessed and issued through our IASME-accredited CB partner.
Certificate assessed and issued via our IASME-accredited Certification Body partner; final quote depends on estate size.
Every device that touches the internet sits behind a correctly configured firewall that blocks untrusted inbound traffic by default.
Systems are hardened before use — default passwords removed, unnecessary accounts and services stripped out.
People get only the access they need, administrator accounts are separated, and access is removed when it's no longer required.
Anti-malware, application allow-listing or sandboxing is active on the devices in scope to stop malicious code running.
Software is supported and licensed, and high-risk security updates are applied within the scheme's timeframes.
Tell us about your estate and what you need to certify. We'll map the fastest honest route to Cyber Essentials or CE+.
Forefront Compliance is the certification arm of Forefront IT Security Services — a veteran-owned UK penetration-testing consultancy. Beyond Cyber Essentials, our senior testers run the full range of offensive assessments.