📋 Tender Overview
Good afternoon everyone and thank you for joining us at this Cyber Essentials showcase event. Im very excited to be here today and it is great to see so many people here from a range of organisations including large and small businesses government departments trade bodies and charities. I would like to thank everyone for taking the time to attend and celebrate this fantastic event with all of us here at DCMS.It has been great to hear about the Cyber Essentials journey from Chris Pinder IASME and Lindy Cameron CEO National Cyber Security Centre and some of the noteworthy milestones of the scheme over the past 8 years. It is amazing to be able to say that the 100000th certificate was awarded a few months ago and I know that many of you here today are Cyber Essentials certified and are counted in that number.The UK government is working to make the UK the safest place to live and work online. DCMS plays a critical role in strengthening the UKs cyber ecosystem and building a resilient and thriving digital UK in line with our 2.6 billion National Cyber Strategy. As part of that strategy we are committed to increasing the uptake of standards such as Cyber Essentials. To date Cyber Essentials has had a profound impact in driving improved cyber security across a wide range of organisations. It is becoming increasingly embedded within our economy and it is playing a vital role in driving a more resilient and prosperous UK.We regularly hear from organisatons that are benefitting from the scheme - from large blue chip companies to small organisations and local charities helping the most vulnerable in society - a small managed service provider in Northern Ireland a nursing home in Liverpool a domestic abuse charity in the Midlands and a charity supporting those with visual or hearing loss in Scotland - are just a few organisations that have gone through the Cyber Essentials scheme recently.We have heard a lot about growth today not just of the Cyber Essentials scheme itself but of the entire ecosystem that surrounds it. It is also helping improve all organisations productivity and growth as they securely embrace digital technologies. The governments vision is for this growth to continue especially in the face of economic adversity. We want to raise awareness of the scheme to see an exponential increase in the number of Cyber Essentials certifications and to raise the baseline of cyber resilience across the economy. We want all organisations in the UK to be working towards Cyber Essentials. To do this we need organisations to be asking their suppliers partners and other third parties they engage with to have it. Most suppliers to government need to have Cyber Essentials and we believe that organisations across the wider economy should be asking their own suppliers to do likewise and that is our ask of you today - to promote and use Cyber Essentials as a key tool when assessing the security of your suppliers.
