Intel Security Certified with UK's Cyber Essentials Program

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Intel Security UK has certified its offerings against the UK Government’s Cyber Essentials scheme.

Developed by the UK government as part of a broader initiative to raise cybersecurity awareness and preparedness in businesses of all sizes, Cyber Essentials provides a set of criteria against which organizations can measure their cybersecurity systems. Achieving the certification demonstrates to customers that a business has taken basic and essential cybersecurity precautions.

Since October 2014, the UK government has required that organizations that handle sensitive and personal data are Cyber Essentials-certified in order to bid for public contracts.

“It was the right thing to do, and the government’s efforts to improve the resilience and security of its supply chain make absolute sense,” said Maurice Cashman, director of enterprise architects at Intel Security. “Cyber Essentials is designed to establish a level of consistency; it’s simple enough that organizations of all sizes can achieve it, and, importantly, it’s effective in nature.”

Intel worked with accreditation body APMG International to achieve the certification. APMG recently incorporated the Cyber Essentials scheme into its portfolio.