Cyber Essentials and CE+ Readiness
"Cyber Essentials shouldn’t test your organisation. It should confirm that you were already ready."
We begin by assessing your environment exactly as a Cyber Essentials assessor would. Our readiness review examines systems, access controls, patching, configurations, and authentication to identify gaps that could lead to audit failure. This provides a clear, evidence-based understanding of where risk exists and what must be addressed before certification begins.
We then work alongside your team to remediate those gaps safely and correctly. This includes securing privileged access, enforcing MFA, correcting configurations, and ensuring patching and asset controls meet Cyber Essentials requirements. Our focus is not theoretical advice, but practical, controlled remediation that strengthens your environment without disrupting operations.
Finally, we validate and evidence your readiness. Every required control is confirmed, documented, and aligned with audit expectations, ensuring there are no surprises when assessment day arrives. The result is a controlled, predictable certification process where Cyber Essentials becomes a confirmation of your preparedness, not a test of the unknown.
What does Success Look Like?
“Corporate Culture Matters. How management chooses to treat it’s people impacts everything for the better or for the worse” – Simon Sinek
With this in mind, Phill and Sue formed RDB Concepts in 2001, with the culture at the forefront of their minds
We believe that our clients deserve the same level of service all of the time and should expect the same level of excellence all of the time. We achieve this by being passionate, enthusiastic and obsessive about our clients and we consistently deliver a service that exceeds their expectations.
Harnessing our skills in database and application stack technologies, we provide a range of fully supported platforms to SME and larger clients, who can now take advantage of new cloud-based solutions as well as protect their core legacy systems.
Understand
Understand your true readiness • Identify gaps early • Remove uncertainty
Secure
Remediate vulnerabilities • Enforce required controls • Achieve full compliance
Certify
Pass Cyber Essentials confidently • Avoid disruption • Operate with assurance
Success begins with clarity. Your organisation understands exactly where it stands before the Cyber Essentials audit begins. Every system, control, and configuration is reviewed against certification requirements, ensuring gaps are identified early, when they can still be resolved safely and without pressure.
With remediation complete, your environment is secure, compliant, and fully prepared. Multi-Factor Authentication is enforced, systems are properly patched, privileged access is controlled, and all required evidence is in place. There are no unknown risks, no last-minute surprises, and no uncertainty about the outcome.
When the audit arrives, certification becomes a validation of work already done. Your organisation enters the process with confidence, knowing your systems are secure, your controls are compliant, and your Cyber Essentials certification will proceed smoothly and successfully.
Getting Started!
"Confidence is not created in the moment you are assessed. It is created in the decisions you make long before anyone is watching. When you choose to prepare, you remove uncertainty, strengthen your organisation, and take control of the outcome. Certification then becomes more than a requirement. It becomes confirmation of your standards." Phill Evans CEO
