Cyber Essentials Plus Coventry

Book your Cyber Essentials Plus audit in Coventry

Tell us about your estate and we will confirm a date and a fixed price. You need a Cyber Essentials certificate less than three months old to certify to Plus, and we issue those too. The audit is hands on: external and internal scans, every internet gateway, and a sample of around ten per cent of user devices checked for patching inside fourteen days, malware protection, enforced MFA and user access. Anything it finds, you get 30 days to fix and be retested. No travel charge in Coventry.

Why Coventry organisations get asked for Plus

Coventry sits in the middle of the automotive and advanced engineering supply chain, and flow-down here is well established. A clause naming Cyber Essentials Plus usually arrives with a date already attached, which is why sequencing matters as much as the audit itself.

Cyber Essentials is a verified self-assessment: you answer, an assessor marks it. Plus adds an independent technical audit on top, where somebody tests the machines rather than reading about them. When a buyer says the self-assessment is not enough, Plus is almost always what they mean.

What the audit meets in Coventry

Design and engineering estates bring their own wrinkle: high-value workstations running specialist software that nobody wants to touch, test rigs and shop-floor controllers that were never meant to be on a network, and a CAD or PLM system that is business-critical. The audit samples user devices, so the practical questions are which of those are user devices, which are genuinely segregated, and whether the separation survives contact with an assessor.

What usually costs a pass in Coventry

High-value engineering workstations that nobody wants to touch, and nobody has patched
Test rigs and controllers that were never meant to be on a network but are
A CAD or PLM system treated as too critical to update, which is exactly why it is a risk

None of these is unusual and none of them is a reason to delay. They are the things worth checking before you commit to a date, which is what a pre-audit review is for.

Sequencing

You need a valid Cyber Essentials certificate, less than three months old when the Plus certificate is issued, and 30 days to remediate anything the audit finds. We certify both, so an expired certificate is something we fix rather than something that sends you elsewhere. The main Cyber Essentials Plus page has the detail.

Local, and no handoff

Coventry is comfortably inside an hour from Albrighton, with no travel charge anywhere in the West Midlands. Audits are scheduled around production and project deadlines. The Lead Assessor who runs the audit is the person you speak to, and as an appointed Cyber Essentials Plus Certification Body we issue the certificate ourselves rather than passing it to a third party.

Common questions

Do you cover Coventry?

Yes. Coventry is comfortably inside an hour from Albrighton, with no travel charge anywhere in the West Midlands. We are an appointed Cyber Essentials Plus Certification Body, so the audit and the certificate both come from us.

Do I need Cyber Essentials first?

Yes, and it has to be less than three months old when the Plus certificate is issued. If yours has aged out or you do not hold it yet, we can certify that directly first.

What does the audit actually test?

An external vulnerability scan of your internet-facing addresses, an internal authenticated scan across a representative sample of user devices, and testing of every internet gateway and any server reachable by an unauthenticated user. On the sampled devices we check malware protection, patching inside fourteen days, enforced multi-factor authentication on cloud services, and that standard users cannot do administrator-only things.

What happens if we fail something?

You get 30 days to fix it and be retested. Most things found at audit are configuration rather than cost, and we tell you exactly what and why rather than handing you a score.

Our deadline came with the contract. How fast can you move?

Tell us the date. The audit itself is quick to schedule; what sets the timeline is your Cyber Essentials being current and the estate being ready. We will tell you straight whether the date is achievable.

Can the audit be done remotely?

Often, yes. Remote testing covers most estates. Where the estate genuinely needs somebody on site, we do that too, and there is no travel charge in our coverage area.