Cyber Essentials · Cyber Essentials Plus · UK organisations
Have a tender deadline, customer requirement or renewal coming up? We help you choose the right level, find the gaps and prepare for assessment.
Get a written scope and price before work begins, with a London-based engineer guiding your next step.
Free enquiry. No obligation. We reply within two business hours, Monday–Friday, 8am–6pm.
Each package includes the certification fees and Nerdster support listed below. Your written quote confirms the scope and total price before work starts.
Nerdster is Cyber Essentials certified. We prepare and support your organisation; an approved certification body assesses your application and issues certification.
Share your deadline and organisation size. We will confirm the right route, what the work includes and any information needed for your fixed quote.
A Nerdster engineer will review your requirements and reply within two business hours, Monday–Friday, 8am–6pm.
Clear starting prices
For organisations whose controls are already in place and who want their answers reviewed before submission.
Technical remediation, new licences and replacement equipment are quoted separately.
For organisations that need to understand the gaps and prepare a clear route to certification.
This package includes the review and remediation plan. Carrying out technical fixes is scoped and quoted separately.
For organisations that need the independently tested level of assurance, including where a customer or contract specifies Plus.
The starting price covers a straightforward scope in the assessment provider's 1–9 licence band. We confirm the applicable size band and assessment arrangements before issuing your fixed quote. Larger scopes and onsite assessments are quoted separately.
Cyber Essentials Annual Plan
Your Cyber Essentials, prepared every year, without the scramble before renewal.
For organisations that need Cyber Essentials every year for a customer, tender or insurer, and want one fixed fee instead of a project each time.
Technical fixes, new licences and replacement equipment are quoted separately. Certification remains subject to the assessor's decision. Cyber Essentials Plus is not included. We confirm your size band and scope before issuing your fixed quote. The plan renews each year and you can stop it at renewal.
Add an AI use check
Staff may already be using AI tools you have not approved. This check finds them.
You give us read-only admin access to your Microsoft 365. We list the AI apps connected to it, check how staff sign in to them, and map which files and mailboxes they can see. We also ask your team what they use, because the records cannot show every tool. You get three short documents:
The NCSC's Cyber Essentials requirements do not mention AI. In our reading, an AI tool that staff use with a work email and company data counts as a cloud service under the scheme's definition. So it belongs in scope, and it needs MFA where the tool offers it. Why AI tools count.
Want ongoing help after the check? See the ongoing AI team at Nerdster AI.
These are Nerdster service packages: certification fees together with the preparation and support described above. The prices include one certification cycle and the agreed support for that project. Certification renews annually. The Annual Plan covers renewal each year; otherwise renewal certification and any further support are quoted separately.
Organisation size, assessment scope and technical complexity can affect your quote. Technical remediation, replacement hardware or software, additional licences and an onsite assessment are separate unless expressly included in your written quote. We explain the expected costs before you approve the work.
Ongoing monitoring, patch-management subscriptions, security training and privacy software are available under separately scoped services. They are included only where your quote expressly lists them.
What we do
We review the requirement you have been given and help you establish whether you need Cyber Essentials, Plus or a renewal.
We check the areas that can hold up preparation, such as unsupported software, missing MFA, patching, access controls and unclear device ownership.
With the readiness or Plus package, your team gets a clear view of the information and evidence needed. We can work alongside your existing IT provider.
We help you prepare accurate answers and coordinate with the approved certification body. Certification remains subject to its assessment.
Share your deadline, organisation size and current IT setup.
See the support included, likely dependencies and any separate remediation costs.
Your IT team or ours carries out the agreed work and gathers the evidence.
We support the submission and coordinate the Plus assessment where required.
Most supported projects take 2–6 weeks, depending on readiness and scope. We confirm a realistic timeline after reviewing your situation.
Start with the wording in your customer request or contract. Cyber Essentials uses an independently reviewed self-assessment. Plus adds technical testing by an assessor. Send us the requirement if you are unsure which level it calls for.
Yes. We can handle readiness and assessment coordination while your provider completes the agreed technical work.
No. The initial enquiry is free and without obligation. Any paid work is scoped and agreed in writing before it starts.
No. The quote separates the chosen certification support from technical remediation, hardware, software or other work your environment needs. You decide what to approve.
Our packages combine certification fees with Nerdster's answer review, preparation or assessment coordination, depending on the option you choose. Your quote explains the services included so you can compare the scope as well as the price.
Yes. The advertised package includes both Cyber Essentials and the Plus technical assessment, together with the listed Nerdster preparation and support. If you already hold valid Cyber Essentials certification, tell us so we can confirm the appropriate assessment route and quote.
It can be. The three packages cover one certification cycle. The Annual Plan covers each year you stay on it. It includes the certification fee, a six-month check and your renewal, for one yearly fee agreed in your fixed quote. You can stop it at renewal.
We ask for read-only admin access to your Microsoft 365. We list the connected AI apps, how staff sign in to them and what data they can reach. You get an AI tool inventory, an AI use policy and a short action plan. It is a check, not a certification.
The packages on this page cover the certification and Nerdster support listed above. If you also need ongoing device protection, patch management, training or privacy tools, ask us for a separate quote that clearly lists those products and services.
Tell us the date and current state of your IT. We will explain what is realistic after reviewing the scope. We do not promise certification before the assessment is complete.
An approved certification body assesses the application and issues certification when the requirements are met. Nerdster provides the agreed preparation and support.
Tell us what you need the certificate for. We will help you understand the next step, likely work and costs before you commit.
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