BASELINECYBER SECURITY

Are you closer to Cyber Essentials than you think?

Ten quick questions covering the five Cyber Essentials technical controls. Answer honestly and you'll get a rough sense of where the gaps likely are, in about two minutes, before spending anything on a formal gap analysis.

Firewalls

Does every device that connects to the internet, including ones used from home, sit behind a properly configured firewall?

Firewalls

Have the default admin passwords on your router and firewall been changed from what they shipped with?

Secure configuration

When someone new joins, do they get a locked-down standard setup, rather than a copy of whatever was already on the laptop?

Secure configuration

Are accounts removed, not just disabled and forgotten, when someone leaves the business?

Security update management

Are security updates applied automatically, rather than depending on someone remembering to click install?

Security update management

Do you know whether all the software you use is still supported by its vendor?

User access control

Does every person have their own individual login, with none shared between staff?

User access control

Is admin-level access limited to only the people who genuinely need it day to day?

Malware protection

Is anti-malware software installed and kept up to date on every device, not just some of them?

Malware protection

Is staff software installation restricted to an approved list, rather than anything goes?

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