Many customers, and many government contracts, ask for Cyber Essentials before they work with you. Naq sets up most of the work for you, then checks your evidence every night.
Cyber Essentials with Naq, a three-minute walkthrough of the product · Narrated, with captions
Cyber Essentials is a UK government-backed scheme that protects you against the most common cyber attacks. You complete a self-assessment, and a certification body checks it.
Firewalls, secure configuration, security updates, user access control and malware protection.
How quickly you must apply critical security updates. Multi-factor sign-in is also required on every cloud service that offers it.
How long a certificate lasts, so you renew it every year.
This is everything Cyber Essentials asks of you. For each step, here is what you do and what Naq does.
Write down what your certificate covers, and what it leaves out.
Sets up Cyber Essentials for your whole organisation, with 58 requirements linked to 20 ready-made controls.
Connect Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.
Finds your devices and cloud services, and shows who uses each one and whether multi-factor sign-in is on.
Review the policies, approve them, and send them to all staff.
Gives you 13 ready-written Cyber Essentials templates, from network security to secure configuration, and tracks who has acknowledged each one.
Fix each gap that Naq shows you.
Links your registers and evidence to each control and checks them every night. Each gap comes with the exact record to fix.
Answer the questionnaire, then add your certificate with its expiry date.
The Naq Assistant tells you what is still missing first, and Naq reminds you when the certificate is due for renewal.
Naq links your registers and evidence to the right controls and checks them every night. Someone who has left but still has access is flagged before an assessor finds it.
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Real checks from the Cyber Essentials controls in Naq. The results shown are illustrative.
Publish your Cyber Essentials controls and documents on your own Trust Centre. Customers answer their own questions, so their security questionnaires get shorter.
They see which controls are in place, without a call or a spreadsheet.
For example your access control policy, with their name and the reason they need it.
Naq emails them a link straight away.
Mapped to the Cyber Essentials requirements, version 3.3.
And 11 more.
And 4 more.
Every document you link as evidence is also checked automatically: its current version must be approved, staff acknowledgements must be complete, and its review date must not have passed.
Built from the Naq control library for Cyber Essentials v3.3.
See the five steps in your own workspace, with your own data.
