Cyber Essentials Telford

What certification involves

The five controls are firewalls, secure configuration, security update management, user access control and malware protection. The 2026 rules are stricter — multi-factor authentication is mandatory on cloud services, and critical patches must be applied within 14 days — so the work is usually getting those in order before you submit. You’re guided by a Certification Body that tells you plainly what to change, then certifies you. Most Telford organisations with reasonable controls certify in days rather than weeks. When you’re ready for the audited level, we support Cyber Essentials Plus too.

Local, and fast

We’re based nearby in Albrighton, so Telford businesses get a local team. We work remotely first, which suits most businesses, with onsite visits across Shropshire and the West Midlands available where they genuinely help. You deal directly with the assessor, not a call centre. If you’re against a client or tender deadline, tell us and we’ll be straight about what’s achievable.

Ready to buy?

Transparent, fixed pricing based on your organisation size. By default we give you access to the IASME portal to complete your Cyber Essentials assessment yourself, and once you submit it we aim to assess within one business day. You can preview the Cyber Essentials self-assessment questions to see where you stand first. There is no call or consultation as standard; we simply send you the questionnaire to complete. Your submission is reviewed by a qualified, certified assessor, never fed into AI. Need it faster? Add urgent turnaround below. Want us to review your setup against the controls before you apply? That is a gap analysis, quoted separately: ask for one using the contact button under the form.

An appointed IASME Certification Body: your certificate comes directly from us. Verify our credentials on the BlockMark registry, and find us listed on the IASME website.

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Urgent turnaroundMoved to the front of the queue and assessed same day where your submission arrives before midday. +£100

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Want a gap analysis, a different way to pay, or a question answered first?

Gap analysis. We review your setup against the controls you will be assessed on before you apply and tell you exactly what needs fixing, so nothing is a surprise when you submit. It is quoted against your setup rather than sold as a fixed add-on, so ask us and we will price it.

Anything else. Paying by card here is the quickest route, not the only one. Tell us how you would rather pay and we will sort it. Same if you want a question answered before you buy, or a quote for on-site Cyber Essentials or IASME Cyber Assurance Level 1.

Why Cyber Essentials comes up so often in Telford

Most Telford organisations do not go looking for Cyber Essentials. It arrives in an email from a customer. With manufacturing and engineering making up about 15.5% of local employment, more than double the national average, a large share of the roughly 5,900 businesses in Telford and Wrekin sit somewhere in somebody else's supply chain, and that is where the requirement comes from.

Three routes bring it to the door here more than anywhere else in Shropshire:

Automotive. Telford feeds a tier one and tier two automotive chain, with Jaguar Land Rover's plant around twelve miles away and suppliers such as Cosma Casting established in the town. Those customers audit their suppliers.
Defence. Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land builds military vehicles in Telford, and Rheinmetall has announced a large-calibre barrel facility here expected to support more than 400 direct and indirect jobs. Cyber Essentials is a control at every level of Defence Cyber Certification, so it is the first thing a defence supplier needs.
Public sector and education. Telford and Wrekin Council contracts, NHS work and school supply all tend to ask for it by name.

The practical consequence is that certification in Telford is usually a deadline problem rather than a security problem. Somebody needs the certificate by a date, and the work is fitting the controls around a production schedule that will not stop.

Everything we do in Telford

Seven services, one local practice. Whichever one brought you here, the others are run by the same people from the same place, twenty minutes away at Albrighton.

Cyber security in Telford the overview of everything we do locally
Cyber Essentials in Telford you are here
Cyber Essentials Plus in Telford the audited step up, when a customer wants more
IASME Cyber Assurance in Telford for when Cyber Essentials is not enough
Penetration testing in Telford CREST-accredited testing of what you expose
Ethical hacker in Telford the person, the credentials and the authorisation
DCC Level 0 in Telford for suppliers into the defence chain

Common questions

Do Telford businesses really need Cyber Essentials?

If a client, insurer or tender has asked for it, effectively yes — not holding it usually means losing the work. Even where it’s optional, it blocks the most common attacks and reassures the people you do business with.

How quickly can we get certified?

Often within days if your controls are already in reasonable shape; if not, we tell you exactly what to fix first. For a hard deadline, see our urgent certification support.

Do you come to us in Telford?

We work remotely first, which suits most of this work, and can arrange onsite visits where they genuinely help. Much of the work is done remotely with no loss of quality, so certification is quick either way.

Cyber Essentials for Telford organisations

Telford is vehicle engineering, fabrication, electronics and distribution across the industrial estates, much of it supplying defence directly or through primes. In practice we mostly meet warehouse and production systems tied to specific hardware, plus handheld devices with shared logins and no obvious patching route. The requirement usually arrives via Defence Cyber Certification flow-down, and MoD-adjacent supply chain requirements.

That shapes how a Telford certification should be sequenced. Where the estate is unmanaged or mixed, the gap analysis is worth more than the urgent turnaround, because the delay will come from remediation rather than from assessment. Where it is already managed and documented, go straight to the questionnaire. Telford is fifteen minutes from our office, so this is about as local as our work gets.

We are an appointed IASME Certification Body, so the assessment and the certificate both come from us. Assessment is within one business day of submission as standard, or the same day with the urgent option where you submit before midday. See how fast Cyber Essentials really is if you are working to a date.