Work through scope and the five technical controls before you apply – with the automatic-fail points flagged, asset and cloud inventories, a gap log and a Cyber Essentials Plus pre-check.
IT & cyber security
Cyber Essentials Readiness Checklist
About this document
A practical self-check against the current Cyber Essentials requirements, to use before you start the online assessment. It walks you through scope, the five technical control areas (firewalls, secure configuration, security update management, user access control and malware protection), backups, the inventories assessors ask about, and the director’s declaration, then records gaps and actions.
The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.
Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.
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