Cyber Essentials & Insurance Readiness
A practical readiness review for SMEs facing a tender, supplier questionnaire, cyber insurance renewal or audit. We assess your controls, produce the evidence pack, and give you a clear path to close the gaps.
About cyber essentials & insurance readiness
SMEs are being asked to prove their cyber controls more often than ever - by insurers at renewal, by enterprise customers during procurement, and by their own supply chain. Without clear evidence, deals slip, premiums rise and questionnaires drag on for weeks.
Our Cyber Essentials and Insurance Readiness review gives you a defensible answer in a few weeks. We test your environment against the controls Cyber Essentials assessors and cyber insurers actually look at: MFA, secure configuration, patching, firewall protection, malware protection, user access control and device management. We then produce a readiness report, the evidence to back it up, and a prioritised remediation tracker.
The output is built for two audiences. Your team gets a clear plan of what to fix and in what order. Your insurer, customer or assessor gets the evidence in a format they recognise - so questionnaires take hours, not weeks, and conversations are about facts, not promises.
This service helps you move toward Cyber Essentials and CE Plus certification, supports cyber insurance renewals, and answers supplier security questionnaires - but it does not guarantee certification or insurance approval. Final decisions sit with the assessor or insurer.
What's included
The capabilities included as standard with this service.
Cyber Essentials readiness check
Gap analysis against the current Cyber Essentials and CE Plus question set.
Microsoft 365 and device control review
Tenant configuration, device enrolment, BitLocker, Defender and admin protection.
MFA, patching, firewall and malware checks
The core technical controls assessors and insurers care about.
Access control and secure configuration
Admin separation, role assignment, password and account hygiene, secure baselines.
Evidence pack
Screenshots, exports and policy excerpts your insurer, customer or assessor will accept.
Remediation action tracker
Each gap with owner, effort, priority and target date.
Practical roadmap
A clear path from current state to certification or renewal-ready, mapped to budget and risk.
Working session walk-through
We present the findings and answer questions from your team, finance director or insurer.
Where this fits
Common scenarios where this service delivers measurable value.
Cyber insurance renewal
Get ahead of the renewal questionnaire and avoid last-minute scrambles or premium hikes.
Cyber Essentials or CE Plus preparation
Pre-assess before formal certification to avoid surprise failures.
Enterprise supplier onboarding
Respond to large-customer security questionnaires with confident, evidence-backed answers.
Tender or RFP response
Strengthen security sections of bids with documented controls and a clear roadmap.
Regulated sector audit
Provide audit-ready evidence for FCA, ICO, NHS DSPT and similar reviews.
Post-incident assurance
Demonstrate to customers and insurers that controls have been reviewed and tightened.
Common questions
Talk to us about cyber essentials & insurance readiness
A short call, no obligation.
Talk to a UK technology partner who's done this for 20 years
Book a practical, no-pressure consultation. We'll review your current setup, show where AI communications, cloud telephony or managed IT could improve customer experience and reduce admin - and tell you straight if you don't need us.
- UK-based people, real account management
- Honest recommendations - even if it's not us
- Practical AI where it adds value, not hype
