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    Achieving 
    ​Cyber Essentials and CE+ 

    Simply being certified can reduce your cyber risk by up to 98.5%. And, it’s a great way to demonstrate to new customers and partners that you take cybersecurity seriously – helping you grow as well as stay safe.

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Why organisations certify Cyber Essentials with Spear Shield?

Access to 
Secure Dashboard


Unlimited Mon-Fri Consultancy


Unlimited Submissions 
until pass​


Pre CE Plus 

preparation guidance


Option for enhanced 
Cyber Insurance


Quick review times


How does it work?

No jargon. No endless back and forth. And all the expert guidance you need to pass first time.

Onboarding

Spear Shield will set you up with access to your own secure dashboard. This is where you'll receive guidance on each of the questions, and where you can monitor progress as you work through submitting your answers.

Unlimited Consultancy

With no such thing as a silly question, customers benefit from unlimited consultancy with a Cyber Essentials auditor Mon - Fri 9.00am - 5.00pm. Not sure of any recent changes in the requirements or how your organisation might adhere to one of the questions? Expert advice will be there to help.

Certification

Certification is quick! With leads time typically within the first 24 hours after submitting your results. Don't worry if you fail though, customers will benefit from unlimited submissions until they pass at no additional cost.

Cyber Insurance

If you're a UK-domiciled organisation with a turnover under £20m and you achieve self-assessed certification covering your whole organisation to either the basic level of Cyber Essentials or the IASME Standard, you are entitled to opt in to £25,000 of cyber insurance included as part of certifying with Spear Shield. Terms apply and speak with the team for full details.

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Achieving Supplier Assurance with Cyber Essentials Plus

'We're delighted with our data security efforts - we're Cyber Essentials Plus certified!

This wouldn't have been possible without the help of Spear Shield, trusted local cybersecurity experts here in Ipswich. As part of our commitment to safe recruiting, secure sensitive data is crucial. This certification proves our proactive measures to prevent cyber risks."

Click here to read more in Sanctuary Group's blog post.

H. Good. I.T Manager at Sanctuary Personnel

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Free Cyber Insurance

Customers benefit from £25K Cyber Insurance coverage when achieving Cyber Essentials or Cyber Essentials Plus with Spear Shield.

Cyber Essentials Plus Pre-Audit

The team at Spear Shield will help you prepare for your Plus Audit to ensure there will be no hidden surprises on the day and to help you achieve certification for your business.

Cyber Essentials Plus Audit

Cyber Essentials Plus includes an independent assessment carried out by one of our licensed auditors. This gives you complete peace of mind your cybersecurity is up to standard.

Customers that secure with Spear Shield

Achieving Security Outcomes Together

Mitigating Human-Activated Risk

Associate Director (Information and Security) Concertus, part of the Vertas Group.

Enhancing SecOps with 24/7 MDR

Head of I.T, Times Higher Education

IT Security validation with Penetration Testing

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Achieving Supplier Assurance with Cyber Essentials Plus

'We're delighted with our data security efforts - we're Cyber Essentials Plus certified!

This wouldn't have been possible without the help of Spear Shield, trusted local cybersecurity experts here in Ipswich. As part of our commitment to safe recruiting, secure sensitive data is crucial. This certification proves our proactive measures to prevent cyber risks."

Click here to read more in Sanctuary Group's blog post.

I.T Manager, Sanctuary Personnel

Understanding Human Risk with SAT

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Spear Shield's portfolio of cybersecurity solutions and services

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The team at Spear Shield have several year's experience working within both the private and public sector, have a very consultative approach and would welcome the opportunity to learn more about your organisation.

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Why customers Secure with Spear Shield

Over 20+ Year's Experience

Working within the private sector, public sector and large enterprise to help organisations solve complex and advanced cybersecurity challenges.

Strategic Portfolio

The team at Spear Shield have done the hard work evaluating the market, understanding the pro's, con's of each solution and what's going to provide the best security outcomes and value for investment so you don't have to.

In-House Technical Expertise

Our customer's benefit from Spear Shield's in-house technical expertise for both pre and post-sales support

In-House Technical Expertise

Cyber criminals collaborate... so why shouldn't the good guys too? Spear Shield customers benefit from our regularly hosted Security Social.exe free to attend cybersecurity social and networking events. 

Let's crush the bad guys together!

Spear Shield has an award winning portfolio of cybersecurity solutions and services that can help keep your network, people and data secure.

Access to the best Commercials

Spear Shield's relationships and technical investment with our partners enables us to provide our customer's with the most competitive commercials available. 

FAQ's

Everything you need to know about Spear Shield.

Do I have to be a customer to attend a Security Social.exe event?

No you don't! Whilst we'd of course hope that one day you might be... Our Security Social events are to provide people with a platform to network. We've built a community of local based IT professionals in East Anglia and Edinburgh so far where people can come together to share cybersecurity challenges and advice for best practice with one another.

Does Spear Shield offer term-based licensing or MSP?

Here at Spear Shield, we can offer both! Consider us a hybrid MSP and VAR (Value added reseller). We are set-up with our vendors to offer our customers all options to ensure we can align our cybersecurity solutions and services with your preferred budget type. Please speak with the team for details.

Can Spear Shield supply public sector organisations through a procurement framework?

Yes! Spear Shield has routes to market including G-Cloud to be able to supply our public sector customers with our cybersecurity solutions and services. Please speak with the team for details.

Can Spear Shield work with Large Enterprise?

Yes! and we do. Our Team has many, many combined years experience working with some of the largest private sector enterprises across the country to help tackle and solve cyber risk. All of Spear Shield's cybersecurity solutions and services are scalable and enterprise-grade.

Does Spear Shield offer not-for-profit discount?

Yes, the Spear Shield Team will always ensure any eligible not-for-profit and public sector discounts are applied to any quotes for our cybersecurity solutions and services.

What are some of the top cybersecurity threats for 2023?

Here are some of the top cybersecurity threats organisations are facing in 2023. 

Social Engineering
Any network is hackable if an employee can be duped into sharing access.


Third-Party Exposure
Vendors, clients, and app integrations with poor security can provide access to an otherwise well-protected network.


Configuration Mistakes
Your cybersecurity investments are only as strong as they are configured correctly.


Human Activated Risk
User education and visibility for IT is essential to ensure those with network access and those handling sensitive data are maintaining cyber best practices.


Ransomware
Hackers are targeting back-ups and using extortion more and more to push receiving the ransom payment from their victims.


Mobile Devices
Every mobile device is a gateway to your network and sensitive business data.


Lack of resource and expertise
Human-led cyber attacks require human-led threat hunting. Unfortunately, skilled threat hunters are few and far between. 


Internet of Things (IoT)
Smart technology users may not realise that any IoT device can be hacked to obtain network access. Securing your network starts with understanding what's on it.

Is there any obligation when opting for a free cybersecurity service by Spear Shield?

No there isn't! The team will just use that as an opportunity for us to work together on a project and prove the value we can provide you as a future strategic partner.

How can I reduce my employees click-rate?

This is an area where the cybersecurity experts at Spear Shield thrive! We've worked with organisations to help reduce employee click rates from 70+% to 0% without the need for any end-user awareness training.

Online training content doesn't work.


Classroom based training gets forgotten.


Static email banners get ignored.


Speak with the team about real-time end-user awareness training to help mitigate the risk of a phishing attack in your organisation.

Why Spear Shield for Managed Detection Response Services?

The team at Spear Shield are an Award Winning Sophos Partner and have a combined 20+ years experience working with Sophos. Our relationship and technical investment, enables Spear Shield to offer our customers the most competitive commercials available. Sophos is one of the largest providers of MDR across the globe with over 17,000 + organisations using the MDR service and is what powers the Spear Shield 24/7 Managed Detection Response Service.

Why Spear Shield for a Managed Phishing Simulation Service?

Spear Shield's Managed Phishing Simulation Service provides our customers with managed phishing simulations and security awareness training for their users delivered as a fully managed services. Customers benefit from the tailored spear phishing examples that the Spear Shield team can tailor to your organisation and also base our templates on real-world phish that we see that are able to evade detection from 3rd party secure email gateways and Microsoft 365. After each campaign, customers benefit from receiving an executive ready report with all of the information and data required to be able to confidently articulate risk back to the business.

What's included in Spear Shield's Managed Phishing Simulation Service reports?

The cybersecurity experts at Spear Shield will provide you with executive ready reporting with all of the intelligence you require to provide cyber-assurance to your organisation.

Includes:
- Engagement Overview
- % Click Rate
- No. of Credentials Harvested
- Individual Campaign Performance
- Device Breakdown
- Caught-User Breakdown
- User Behaviours Insights

- Industry Benchmarking
- Consultative Recommendations

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