Cyber Essentials Plus Shrewsbury

Book your Cyber Essentials Plus audit in Shrewsbury

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 Shrewsbury.

Why Shrewsbury organisations get asked for Plus

Shrewsbury runs on professional services, independents and public sector suppliers, and the request for Plus usually arrives through a contract renewal, a framework or an insurer rather than a manufacturing prime. The common thread is a buyer who has decided a self-assessment is no longer enough evidence.

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 Shrewsbury

Smaller Shrewsbury organisations are usually simpler than they fear: a handful of laptops, Microsoft 365, maybe one server. The audit still samples real devices, and the two things that catch people are laptops that live at home and miss patch cycles, and an outsourced IT provider who assumes somebody else is watching the updates. Neither is hard to fix once you know.

What usually costs a pass in Shrewsbury

Laptops that go home and quietly miss the patch window
An IT provider seen twice a year, with updates assumed rather than managed
One shared account because the team is small and it has always worked that way

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

Shrewsbury is twenty-five minutes from us at Albrighton, in our own county. No travel charge, and we can usually commit to a specific morning. 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 Shrewsbury?

Yes. Shrewsbury is twenty-five minutes from us at Albrighton, in our own county. 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 are only eight people. Is this overkill?

If a customer has asked for it, no. The audit is sized to you, and a small, simple estate is usually the quickest kind to get through. We will tell you honestly if Cyber Essentials alone would satisfy the clause.

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.