There's really two reasons why business choose to become certified through IASME Cyber Essentials:
To show their willingness to protect their business and ultimately their customers and their supplier's data against cyber attacks.
We are also seeing businesses being forced by the supply chain to have these compliance measures in place. It is regulatory. Clients approach us because their contract stipulates that they must have Cyber Essentials. The reason for this is because there is an ongoing, big issue with supply chain threats where cyber criminals and cyber hackers will try and infiltrate the supply chain. The bigger companies are being targeted through the smaller businesses. They are using the small businesses as a weak chain in the link to attack the larger organisations.