CyberSmart
Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials is a UK government-backed scheme designed to help organisations protect themselves against common cyber threats. It provides guidelines and certifications to ensure basic cybersecurity measures are in place, promoting a safer online environment for businesses and customers alike.

We’ve partnered with CyberSmart to make getting your Cyber Essentials certification easy.

FAQs

Why you need CyberSmart

Cybersecurity is a necessity for every business today, however, protecting your business can be complicated, time consuming, and expensive. Cyber Essentials provides a great baseline for ensuring the security of your business, but doesn’t remove the challenges associated with acheiving the required level of security.

This is where CyberSmart comes in. The Active Protect application makes it easy to monitor device compliance, against the Cyber Essentials standard, with the CyberSmart portal providing reporting on any non compliant devices and providing information on how to bring the device back into compliance.

Regular Scanning

Your devices are regularly scanned so you know your company is compliant.

Remedy your Non-compliant Devices

Through a user-friendly control panel you can view any non-compliant devices and find out how to correct the issues.

Improve Efficiency

Avoid wasted time by preventing non-compliance without expending your teams time checking devices that are already compliant.

Extra Safety and Security for Customers

Cyber Essentials certification gives your customers the confidence that their data is secure within your systems.

Cost Effective

Continuous monitoring not only provides peace of mind it frees up valuable resources.

Give Your Customers Confidence

Now you’re on top of your cybersecurity, completing Cyber Essentials certification will give your customers confidence that their information is safe with you. It can also open up new opportunities, being a requirement of many government and public sector contracts.

When it comes to gaining your certification, many of the questions can be answered using the data provided by the Active Protect application, plus you have the expertise of both Acklo and CyberSmart on hand to guide you through the process.

FAQs

How does the CyberSmart Dashboard protect my business?

The CyberSmart Dashboard allows you to monitor compliance throughout your business. You can check the compliance status of individual devices and fix issues with how-to and step-by-step instructions to ensure that anyone, regardless of technical or compliance knowledge, can ensure their business is safe and secure.

How secure is the CyberSmart Dashboard?

The CyberSmart Dashboard has been designed by security professionals and experienced developers with security as its foundation. Automated security tests are performed internally across the codebase on every commit.

The Dashboard's Web servers store no sensitive information - this is retrieved from an AES-256 encrypted database accessible only within the virtual private cloud. External automated web application security testing is performed daily.

​ In addition, CyberSmart undertake regular third-party security audits including web application penetration tests to ensure security remains watertight.

What devices would I need to install CyberSmart Active Protect on?

CyberSmart Active Protect should be installed on any devices that access company or customer data. This may include both personal and professional desktops, laptops, servers, virtual machines, mobile phones and tablets.

What else does CyberSmart Active Protect check on my devices?

CyberSmart Active Protect predominantly checks native security configuration on devices and if any existing software installed on devices has any known vulnerabilities. For the anti-malware and firewall checks, the software will also check for third party installs (e.g. Avira, Avast, Sophos, etc.) and include the name of the third party user next to the check.By default, Active Protect is ‘report only’ mode, meaning it cannot modify anything on the device, it simply feeds back information about security configuration settings and software vulnerabilities to your cloud-based dashboard.

What is CyberSmart Active Protect?

CyberSmart Active Protect is a simple software application which is installed on all devices at your business that access company or customer data and ensure ongoing compliance. Active Protect helps businesses to both achieve and maintain Cyber Essentials.

Active Protect periodically checks and reports the compliance status of the device by running through a series of security checks to identify any vulnerabilities or issues, feeding back this information to the CyberSmart Dashboard where you can monitor the compliance of your organisation.

What is the CyberSmart Dashboard?

The CyberSmart Dashboard is where all information from the Active Protect app on your company devices feeds into. Allowing you to manage your security and compliance. The CyberSmart Dashboard gives you access to compliance reports and the ability to digitally share policy documents with end users and track adherence. It will show you if any software is vulnerable on your Windows and Mac devices.

The Dashboard is also where you will complete your questionnaires for Cyber Essentials and IASME Governance & GDPR readiness.

Why do I need CyberSmart Active Protect?

With a growing culture of remote working, dispersed workforces, and endless professional systems, outstanding cyber hygiene is now critical for the success of small businesses. Unfortunately, certification in this field only guarantees protection at a single moment in time. CyberSmart have found security lapses at many businesses within a few months of certification.

CyberSmart Active Protect offers continuous compliance. It is easily installed on any device- personal or company-owned- and runs continually in the background, assessing its security every 15 minutes. When a device fails a security check, it is immediately reported to a centralised dashboard with simple step-by-step instructions on how to fix the issue.

In addition to security monitoring, the app provides a platform for company policy distribution so every team member can have access to critical company policies on their device.

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