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Cyber Essentials

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Cyber Essentials is backed by the UK's government. It helps an organization get the essentials of cyber security covered to decrease the chance of basic cyber attacks.

Cyber Essentials is backed by the United Kingdom's government to help protect organisations, large or small, from cyber attacks. It is a good tool for getting the essentials of cyber security to a level which helps decrease the chance of your organisation to be vulnerable to basic cyber attacks.

  • Tasks for admins regarding firewall, password and device management policies and malware protection, user access control and software management.
  • Guidelines for employees regarding secure password practices and other cyber security basics.
  • Documentation of main software and hardware assets relevant for information security.
Tasks
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Scope
United Kingdom
Here's what
Cyber Essentials
requires and how to comply.

Below you'll find all of the requirements of this framework. In Cyberday, we map all requirement to global tasks, making multi-compliance management easy. Do it once, and see the progress across all frameworks!

Requirements
FWL-01: Firewall administration policies
FWL-02: Documenting and managing the firewall administration policies
FWL-03: Host based firewall protection
SEC-01: Unnecessary user accounts
SEC-02: Changing default passwords
SEC-03: Removing unnecessary software and network services
SEC-04: Disabling auto-run of software
SEC-05: Remote access user authentication
SEC-06: Reviewing password practices on password protected systems
SEC-07: Password policy
UAC-01: User account creation
UAC-02: User authentication
UAC-03: Disabling unnecessary user accounts
UAC-04: Two factor authentication
UAC-05: Administrative account usage
UAC-06: Managing user privileges
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The ISMS component hierachy

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Framework

Sets the overall compliance standard or regulation your organization needs to follow.

Requirements

Break down the framework into specific obligations that must be met.

Tasks

Concrete actions and activities your team carries out to satisfy each requirement.

Policies

Documented rules and practices that are created and maintained as a result of completing tasks.

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