| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure engineer | £1,100.00 |
AKITA SYSTEMS LIMITED
Cyber Essentials Plus Consultancy
Akita’s Cyber Essentials service guides UK organisations through government-backed certification, assessing, preparing and certifying core security controls to defend against common cyber threats and prove trusted cyber security practice. Work with our in-house accredited consultants for Cyber Essentials & Plus
Features
- Cyber Essentials Plus readiness review & certification
- Internal and external vulnerability scanning
- Technical audit of cyber controls
- Endpoint protection evaluation
- Network configuration verification
- User privilege and access testing
- Patch and update effectiveness review
- Simulated attack surface assessment
- Remediation guidance and support
- Pre-assessment readiness checks
Benefits
- Achieve Cyber Essentials Plus certification
- Demonstrates robust security controls
- Strengthens defence against common attacks
- Improves credibility with customers and partners
- Meets higher assurance standards than basic Cyber Essentials
- Improves eligibility for contracts and tendering
- Reduces risk of breach and compromise
- Clear insights into security gaps
- Sustains organisational resilience over time
Pricing
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 15
Service ID
3 7 7 1 7 9 4 1 9 6 6 5 4 7 2
Contact
AKITA SYSTEMS LIMITED
Akita
Telephone: 0330 058 8000
Email: info@akita.co.uk
About the service
- Service categories
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Cloud Support Services
Security Services
- Security strategy
- Security risk management
- Security audit services
- Security quality assurance (QA) and testing
Service scope
- Service constraints
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Service requires customer to engage with Cyber Essential consultant.
Remediation work may be required which can be undertaken by the customer or by Akita
Cyber Essentials renewals must be requested no later than 1 month before renewal to ensure compliance with the latest scheme updates
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Yes
- Support response times
- Support is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for contracted customers. Standard support is provided during business hours, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. Out-of-hours support is delivered based on incident severity and contracted support arrangements.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- Not applicable
Supplier type
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra features and support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- IASME
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)
Pricing
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- ISO/IEC 27001 accredited by
- British Assessment Bureau (UKAS accredited)
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- Friday 18 January 2019
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- The ISO/IEC 27001 certification does not cover customer-owned systems or infrastructure not managed by Akita Systems Limited, physical security controls at customer premises, end-user devices not under Akita management, or non-IT business activities outside the defined scope of IT support, cloud services, and hosted and recovery services.
- ISO 28000:2022 certification
- No
- ISO 9001 certification
- Yes
- ISO 9001 certification accredited by
- British Assessment Bureau (UKAS accredited)
- ISO 9001 accreditation date
- Saturday 31 December 2016
- What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover
- The ISO 9001:2015 certification does not cover activities outside the defined scope of IT service delivery, including non-IT business operations, customer-owned systems or processes not managed by Akita Systems Limited, services delivered entirely by third parties outside Akita’s quality management system, and physical site operations at customer premises where Akita does not have operational control.
- Quality management systems (QMS)
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber Essentials Certificate Number
- 56073cca-376a-486b-a991-0f76b99f23b2
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number
- Cc55b424-1c83-4f89-8550-44e6b24ec430
- Other security certifications
- No
Social value
- Mission: Make Britain a clean energy superpower
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To cut bills, create jobs and deliver security with cheaper, zero-carbon electricity by 2030, accelerating to net zero
Policy Outcome 4: Sustainable procurement practices: Reducing carbon footprints, minimising waste, and promoting the use of clean energy and green technologies.
- Understanding of opportunities for additional environmental benefits delivery in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
- Understanding of how to influence staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders through the delivery of the contract to support climate and nature protection and improvement
Service documents
Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format,
email the supplier at info@akita.co.uk.
Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.