Author: Ann Barron, Lead Cyber Essentials Assessor and Cyber Essentials Plus Assessor Avoid the common pitfalls that can derail your Cyber Essentials Plus journey You’ve passed Cyber Essentials. Congratulations! Now there’s just one more hurdle before Cyber Essentials Plus can begin: Verification Testing. Introduced by IASME just over a year ago, Verification Testing is designed to confirm that the […]
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The Danzell question set comes into effect on 27 April 2026, alongside an updated Cyber Essentials Plus test specification. This blog explains how assessors will more strictly verify update management compliance in Cyber Essentials Plus assessments using the Danzell question set. IASME has identified cases where organisations apply selective updates during assessments. To address this, […]
Cyber Essentials Plus: How Assessors Verify your Scope When organisations prepare for a Cyber Essentials Plus (CE+) assessment, most attention naturally focuses on patching, endpoint protection, and firewall configurations. Yet one of the first and most decisive topics an assessor will examine is something far more foundational: scope. Before any technical testing begins, the assessor […]