IT Team delivers Cyber Essentials Plus

Hills’ IT Team has recently completed extensive work to pass the company’s recertification of Cyber Essentials Plus (CE+).

The in-house IT team and a number of contractors have worked hard with the Board to communicate the ongoing, essential changes to employees to meet the certification.

Stephen Clark, IT Project Delivery Manager, said: “This is a significant achievement given the scale of the project which included moving our existing mail server to a cloud-based system, the introduction of Multi Factor Authentication (MFA), and considerable hardware and software upgrades.

“As part of our continued commitment to cyber security we will be implementing further changes throughout the year. All users of cloud-based services will be required to have MFA enabled ahead of next year’s CE+ re-certification and we will also be strengthening our password requirements.”

Cyber Essentials Plus is designed to prove organisations have a minimum level of protection in cyber security through independent annual assessments. This has become more relevant than ever given a global increase in security risks from hackers and ransomware; a problem that applies equally to individuals, small and medium-sized companies, large organisations and government departments.