Why a Paper Security Certificate Is No Longer Enough: The Hard Truth About Cyber Essentials Plus
For years, UK organisations have treated the basic Cyber Essentials badge as a simple compliance checkbox. Fill in a self-assessment questionnaire, tick the right boxes, and you are “secure”. But attackers do not read questionnaires. They scan for open ports, prey on unpatched vulnerabilities, and exploit weak configurations that most self-assessments completely overlook. That is…