As of 26th January 2021 Awen Collective is officially Cyber Essentials Plus certified!
After completing the initial Cyber Essentials certification on 13th January 2021, the wonderful team at Wolfberry Cyber Security completed an audit of our systems under to confirm we comply with the requirements of the Cyber Essentials Plus scheme. Wolfberry are an IASME Cyber Essentials Certification body.
We see the Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus schemes as a vital stepping stone to help UK-based SME’s engage with their cyber security and ensure a reasonable level of thought and attention has been paid to their ongoing protection from cyber attack.
As a cyber security software supplier, we hold ourselves to the highest standards of internal cyber security, both as a company, and within the security-first principles we build our products under. Cyber Essentials Plus certification marks our first steps into officially recognising those efforts, but by no means will be the last. Our products have previously, and will continue to, undergo testing and validation using external partners to ensure their safety and security, and we look forward to being able to bring you news on further cyber security certifications in the future.
Awen Collective would certainly encourage all organisations to consider the Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus schemes as a foundation of their cyber security efforts, and we’d like to extend our thanks to Wolfberry Cyber Security, IASME and the NCSC for their support of both Awen Collective and the provision of this scheme.
Those in one of the UK Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) sectors, or servicing the CNI sectors, should not only look at Cyber Essentials but should consider the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) which is made much simpler to check and monitor using the Profile software system by Awen Collective.