Cyber Essentials Plus North Wales

Book your Cyber Essentials Plus audit in North Wales

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 North Wales.

Why North Wales organisations get asked for Plus

Aerospace and advanced manufacturing along the Deeside corridor push Plus down into the local tiers, and Welsh public sector and health procurement asks its own version of the same question. Cross-border work into Cheshire and Merseyside adds a third route, because English buyers often treat the audited level as the default rather than the step up.

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 North Wales

North Wales is overwhelmingly a micro and small business economy, and the complication is almost always multi-site rather than complex. Organisations spread across the coast and the valleys frequently have no consistent device standard between sites, because each was set up by whoever was there at the time. The audit samples across the whole scope, so an inconsistent site is where a sample lands badly.

What usually costs a pass in North Wales

Sites with no consistent device standard, so the sample lands differently depending which site it hits
Bilingual systems and suppliers left out of a scope statement by accident rather than intent
Long-serving machines at a remote site that nobody has logged into since the last reboot

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

Wrexham and Deeside are about an hour from us at Albrighton. Where the estate allows it we test remotely, which suits a region where a lot of organisations would rather not lose a day to travel, and we combine sites into one visit where an on-site day is genuinely needed. 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 North Wales?

Yes. Wrexham and Deeside are about an hour from us at Albrighton. 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.

We have several sites. Does each need its own audit?

No. It is one organisation with multiple locations, and the sample is drawn across the whole scope. What matters is that the controls are consistent between sites, which is the thing worth checking before we start.

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.