Engaging Communities Solutions (ECS) achieves Cyber Essentials Plus (CE+) certification

The growing threat of cyber-related crime is quickly becoming a major concern for most organisations and business leaders. With regular reports of high-profile businesses falling victim to cybercrime across the globe, it’s the responsibility of every organisation to ensure they adequately protect themselves and their customers.

  • Independent assessment shows robust cybersecurity principles and capabilities across all ECS sites in England.   

  • Accreditation demonstrates high cybersecurity standards

  • Certification is essential for bidding for critical national projects

The certification demonstrates that the company’s policies and procedures are strong enough to protect against cyber threats. CE+ requires independent verification by an external auditor who conducts a series of technical assessments to ensure the company is protected against various attack scenarios.

Cyber Essentials Plus evaluates six technical security controls that organisations should implement to defend against most internet-borne threats. To obtain this important certification, our organisation was assessed against six security controls:

  • Boundary firewalls

  • Secure asset configuration

  • Patch management

  • User access controls

  • Malware protection

  • Mobile assets 

“We are committed to protecting our various stakeholders, partners, and employees,” said Mohammed Arabo, Corporate Communications & Marketing Officer of ECS. “Earning the Cyber Essentials Plus Certification underscores our focus on the highest levels of security and service. By achieving Cyber Essentials Plus certification ECS are recognised as dedicated to cyber security and our organisation complies with the government-back cyber security standard, offering reassurance to both customers and colleagues alike, the fact that they are working with a company that takes cybersecurity seriously.”

This is also, just one of several activities being carried out to ensure that the possibility of disruption or damage caused by cyber security incidents is minimise and that we fully comply with legislation such as GDPR.

In response to the certification, our Managing Director, Elizabeth Learoyd said, “We’re thrilled to have successfully passed our Cyber Essentials Plus certification. CE+ is an important certification for us to given rate at which crime related to cyber-related activities is increasing and as such, is becoming a paramount concern for UK businesses and everything going on in the world. It is with great pleasure that Engaging Communities Solutions are pleased to announce that we have passed our Cyber Essentials Plus Certification. Whilst working in a secure and safe digital environment, this award is a prerequisite for applying for critical national projects and yet another proof point to our various stakeholders, partners and employees that we provide reliable products, solutions, and services in our quest to supporting hundreds of thousands of people every year to have their voices heard. I am pleased with the commitment of the team to security in everything we do”

Elizabeth added; “This is proof of our ongoing commitment to always making sure that cyber security is at the forefront to everything we do and applying them across the board. Security is key to everything that we do and achieving this standard is proof that the whole company fully applies that ethos.”

Cyber Essentials is a government-backed scheme that helps companies protect themselves against a wide variety of the most common cyber-attacks and was introduced by the UK Government’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).

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