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Book your Cyber Essentials assessment

Get Cyber Essentials certified, without the internal hassle

Mintivo manages the Cyber Essentials process for you, from gap assessment through remediation and certification support, so your team gets a clear path to certification without unnecessary complexity.

Get Cyber Essentials certified, without the internal hassle

Mintivo manages the Cyber Essentials process for you, from gap assessment through remediation and certification support, so your team gets a clear path to certification without unnecessary complexity.

Need to get Cyber Essentials in place quickly?

Book your Cyber Essentials assessment

Need to get Cyber Essentials in place quickly?

Book your Cyber Essentials assessment

Has Cyber Essentials moved up your priority list?

Whatever the trigger, the challenge is finding the time and internal capacity to get certified properly.

This audit is designed to uncover issues such as:

  • Maybe a tender has brought it forward
  • Maybe your insurer has started asking tougher questions
  • Maybe trustees, funders, or senior leadership want reassurance that the basics are properly in place.

We take Cyber Essentials off your plate

A straightforward certification process

Step 1

Gap Assessment

We assess your organisation against the 5 Cyber Essentials controls and identify what’s already in place, what needs attention, and what could hold up certification.

Step 2

Remediation Support

Where gaps are identified, we help you close them, actioning improvements, tightening access and dealing with patching issues.

Step 3

Certification Guidance

We support you through the assessment and submission process, evidencing how you meet the 5 critical security goals.

Step 4

Ongoing Maintenance

Cyber Essentials is renewed annually, but staying ready for renewal should not come down to a last-minute push every 12 months.

Cyber Essentials as a Service

Instead of treating Cyber Essentials as a one-off project and revisiting it at renewal time, with Mintivo’s Cyber Essentials as a Service, you can treat it as a predictable monthly operational cost. With ongoing support that makes renewal far more straightforward.

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Why organisations are moving on Cyber Essentials now

Tenders and contracts

Cyber Essentials is often specified in tenders, meaning organisations need to move quickly once a contract opportunity is live.

Leadership and governance pressure

As a UK Government's baseline cyber standard, Cyber Essentials gives boards, trustees, and funders a recognised standard to understand and report against.

Data responsibility

Cyber Essentials is not the whole answer, but it is the minimum government-recommended baseline the NCSC advises for organisations of all sizes.

Annual assurance, not one-off reassurance

Certification is renewable every year. That matters because it helps move cyber basics from “something we should sort at some point” to a defined, repeatable standard.

*These issues can quickly affect productivity, morale, and risk exposure across the entire business.

What Mintivo covers as part of Cyber Essentials support​

What’s covered:

  • A structured review against the five Cyber Essentials controls
  • A clear gap assessment with priorities explained simply
  • Practical remediation support tailored to your environment
  • Guidance through the certification process and submission
  • Advice that works for mixed estates, remote users, and growing teams
  • Ongoing support to help keep controls current for renewal
  • A clearer picture you can take back to your board, trustees, or leadership team

Why organisations choose Mintivo for Cyber Essentials

We do not hand you a checklist and leave you to work it out internally. We help assess, remediate, guide, and manage the process so your team is not carrying the whole load.
This is the size where Cyber Essentials starts becoming operationally awkward: multiple users, varied access needs, hybrid working, legacy decisions, and limited internal bandwidth. That is exactly where a managed approach adds value.
Mintivo positions itself as a strategic IT partner, helping organisations grow through secure and intelligent solutions rather than simply reacting to tickets. That positioning carries naturally into Cyber Essentials delivery.
You need to explain progress and decisions internally. We keep the process understandable for leadership and practical for operational teams.
You should know what the likely route looks like, what may need attention, and what the next steps are before you commit.

Mintivo were professional and easy to work with, keeping us informed at every stage. They also helped resolve an issue along the way, which meant we were able to achieve the outcome we needed.

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Neil Harlock, Operations Director
Prestige Power

Working with Mintivo has been a real asset to our organisation. Their team understands the way we work and provides support that is reliable, friendly and responsive. It is reassuring to know our IT is in safe hands.

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Nicky Theobald, Premises and Business Support Manager
Community First

Having someone that’s agile, forward-thinking, also growing and can understand us as a business is really important.

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Adam Woodley, CEO
Sinewave

We view Mintivo as an extension of Dorothy House; as if they were our IT department, not a faceless third party. They have been excellent to work with.

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James Miller, Service Delivery Manager
Dorothy House Hospice Care

Mintivo were flexible in finding the right sort of solution for us, so it was an easy decision.

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Kate Fry, Head of Information Management and Technology
Prospect Hospice

Working with Mintivo has helped us modernise our IT environment and better support our teams delivering critical services.

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Ben Judd, Director of Business Development
Bristol Drugs Project

Trusted by organisations that cannot afford ambiguity

“Proactive and dedicated. A true business partner! Mintivo’s engineers are a real asset. Hartham Park’s systems are now much more reliable and secure! Mintivo didn’t simply try to fix the immediate problems, they implemented long-term solutions that make our working lives better.”

Tom Marshall, Commercial Director

Wiltshire Air Ambulance

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Book a Cyber Essentials readiness review

If Cyber Essentials is already on your agenda, the most useful next step is a short planning conversation.

We will talk through your current setup, likely areas of complexity, what may need attention before certification, and what a realistic route forward looks like for an organisation of your size.

Use the form to book a Cyber Essentials readiness review.

Prefer to speak to someone? Call 0300 883310 and we will talk through where you are, what is driving this, and what the most sensible next step looks like

FAQs

For a 50–100 user organisation, the process usually involves reviewing user access, device management, patching, configuration, remote working arrangements, and any obvious control gaps. The main value of working with Mintivo is that we help structure and manage that process rather than leaving you to piece it together internally.

That depends on how ready your environment already is. Some organisations mainly need guidance and validation. Others need remediation work first. A planning call is usually the quickest way to get a realistic view of likely timescales.
Yes. In many organisations this works best as a partnership. We can take the pressure off your internal team, handle the structured certification work, and support remediation while they continue running day-to-day IT.
That is common too. We can manage the process with your operational leadership team and act as the technical partner needed to move the work forward.
That is exactly why the process starts with assessment. If there are gaps, we help you understand them, prioritise them, and address them in a practical order. The point is not to catch you out; it is to get you ready.
Yes. One of the first priorities should be giving you a realistic view of effort, likely remediation needs, and how the engagement would work before you commit.
It means your organisation has demonstrated alignment to the Cyber Essentials baseline across the required controls. It does not remove all cyber risk, but it does give you a recognised, renewable standard you can point to internally and externally.