Research and analysis

Cyber Essentials scheme - impact evaluation

This research details the impact of the Cyber Essentials scheme and how effective it is in improving the cyber security of businesses and organisations.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Feryal Clark MP
• Published: 23 October 2024

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The government developed the Cyber Essentials scheme to help protect organisations of any size against the most common cyber attacks on the internet. Cyber Essentials is a key part of the government’s work to improve cyber resilience across the UK economy, so this evaluation seeks to assess the effectiveness of the scheme and identify how it might be improved.

The research finds that:

1. Cyber Essentials is providing cyber security protection to organisations of all sizes, including larger organisations that use other schemes, standards and accreditations.
2. Cyber Essentials helps to improve organisations’ awareness and understanding of the cyber security risk environment.
3. Cyber Essentials has stimulated wider actions, good practice and behaviours among organisations that use it.
4. Cyber Essentials is being actively used as part of supply chain assurance to inform the supplier selection process, instil confidence and demonstrate basic cyber hygiene to the market.

Please see the main report for further details.

This research was published as part of the 10 year anniversary of Cyber Essentials.

• Read the Minister’s speech on Cyber Essentials at the 10 year event  - Read the Banks’ joint statement on the importance of Cyber Essentials
• For more information visit the Cyber Essentials website.

Published 23 October 2024