TFC Certified under Cyber Essentials Scheme

We are pleased to announce that TFC have gained Cyber Essentials Certification.

This certification helps us to guard against the most common cyber threats and demonstrates our commitment to cyber security. With ever-increasing amounts of business being done online, it is important that companies such as ourselves are aware of the potential threat that disruptive or malevolent hackers can pose.

Our team has been working hard to ensure that our systems and defences are on top form, to counter potential threats, as part of our GDPR compliance procedures.

This hard work paid off when we were officially certified under the Cyber Essentials Scheme on the 15th of January 2019.

Click here to see our certificate.

Some more about the Cyber Essentials Scheme

Cyber Essentials aims to help organisations implement basic levels of protection against cyber attack, demonstrating to their customers that they take cyber security seriously. The scheme is available at two levels:

• Cyber Essentials - an independently verified self assessment. Organisations assess themselves against five basic security controls and a qualified assessor verifies the information provided.
• Cyber Essentials PLUS a higher level of assurance. A qualified and independent assessor examines the same five controls, testing that they work in practice by simulating basic hacking and phishing attacks.

The five basic controls within Cyber Essentials were chosen because, when properly implemented, they will help to protect against unskilled internet-based attackers using commodity capabilities which are freely available on the internet.

Organisations that undertake Cyber Essentials are encouraged to recertify at least once a year and, where appropriate, progress their security.

Since 1 October 2014, Cyber Essentials became a minimum requirement for bidding for some government contracts (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/procurement-policy-note-0914-cyber-essentials-scheme-certification

For further information please see www.cyberstreetwise.com\cyberessentials