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05/11/2025

🧩 What is Cyber Essentials?

Cyber Essentials is a UK government-backed scheme that helps protect your organisation from the most common cyber threats. It’s all about getting the basics right with simple, practical steps that make a big difference to your cyber security.

It focuses on five key areas

🔒 Firewalls & Internet Gateways – keeping unwanted access out.

⚙️ Secure Configuration – setting systems up securely and turning off weak
settings.

👥 User Access Control – limiting who has admin rights and access to sensitive stuff.

🦠 Malware Protection – having tools in place to stop viruses and malicious software.

🔄 Patch Management – keeping your software and systems updated so known holes aren’t exploited.

💡Bonus benefit
Achieving Cyber Essentials certification also gives eligible organisations free cyber liability insurance, a valuable safety net if the worst happens and you face a cyber incident.

Cyber Essentials helps you build strong defences, meet customer expectations, and access additional protection through insurance.

✨ Stay tuned to understand why your business needs it, and how to make certification simple!

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03/11/2025

𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐕𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭 - Business Email Compromise (BEC) is one of the fastest growing cyber threats facing businesses and organisations today.

Attackers are using stolen or phished email logins to impersonate trusted people like you, to redirect payments, steal data, or sending fake requests from your email to your contacts. They look and sound just like you, and this puts your contacts at risk too.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠

⚡ It targets people, not just systems.
🧠 AI makes fake messages more convincing.
🚫 MFA isn’t enough if credentials are already stolen.

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟
✅ Verify unusual requests.
✅ Monitor for strange activity after login (with tools like Identity Threat Protection & Response -ITDR).
✅Review inbox rules and access regularly (attackers will put rules in place that like auto deleting responses to emails they have sent from your inbox)

BEC exploits trust - awareness and smarter monitoring are your best defence.

If you need help getting secure, or would like a free cyber risk assessment contact Intersect IT & Cyber.

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