Cyber Essentials Plus Shropshire

Book your Cyber Essentials Plus audit in Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Why Shropshire organisations get asked for Plus

Shropshire splits in two for this. Around Telford there is defence and logistics flow-down, where a prime that has committed to its own customer passes the requirement down a tier at a time and Plus is named specifically. Everywhere else it tends to arrive through public sector contracts, grant conditions and insurers, reaching professional firms, care providers, schools and the agricultural and engineering businesses in the market towns.

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 Shropshire

The estate we meet most in Shropshire is small, mixed and spread out. Rural sites on consumer-grade broadband with a router nobody has reconfigured since installation. An outsourced IT provider seen twice a year. Laptops that go home and come back. None of that stops a pass, but it changes the sample: devices that rarely touch the office network are exactly the ones carrying missing patches, and the audit tests the device rather than the intention.

What usually costs a pass in Shropshire

A laptop that lives at a rural site and has not completed a patch cycle in months
An outsourced IT provider who assumes the organisation is watching updates, and vice versa
Personal phones carrying work email, in scope and nobody had counted them

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

We are at Albrighton, in the county. A Shropshire audit costs nothing in travel and can usually be booked for a named morning rather than a notional week, anywhere between Oswestry and Ludlow. 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 Shropshire?

Yes. We are at Albrighton, in the 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.

Our IT is outsourced. Who needs to be in the room?

Whoever can get into the devices. We will send the technical requirements ahead so your provider can prepare, and run the audit with them if that is easier. It is a common Shropshire setup and it is not a problem.

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.