What's the difference between Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus?

Cyber Essentials is a verified self-assessment against five security controls. Cyber Essentials Plus tests the same controls with a hands-on technical audit by a licensed assessor. You must hold Cyber Essentials before doing Plus.

Do you do the work, or just assess us?

We do the work. Foresight runs the gap analysis, carries out hands-on remediation, prepares the evidence and liaises with the assessor, so you pass first time rather than paying to re-sit a failed audit.

How much does Cyber Essentials cost?

The IASME assessment fee is tiered by size from around £320 + VAT and includes £25,000 cyber liability insurance for eligible UK businesses. Cyber Essentials Plus is scoped to your estate, typically from around £1,380 + VAT.

Emergency cyber incident response · Preston

Been hacked in Preston? We’ll help you recover.

Preston is on our North West patch — remote fast, on-site when needed. If a business in Preston has been breached — locked out, ransomware, money redirected or strange activity — Foresight’s incident response team helps you contain it, recover and get back to work. We’re on your doorstep — remote help immediately, and on-site in Preston when it’s needed.

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Remote response UK-wide, usually within the hour · On-site across Greater Manchester · Cyber Essentials Plus · CREST-approved

Stay calm — don’t

Pay any ransom before speaking to us
Delete or wipe anything yet
Keep logging in and out
Wait — the first hour matters most

Need help now? Request an urgent callback

Leave your details and we’ll call you straight back. Or call 0161 738 1399 right now.

Is this you?

Signs you’ve been hacked

✗You’re locked out of your email or Microsoft 365

✗Clients or colleagues get messages you never sent

✗A ransom note, or files suddenly encrypted

✗An invoice or payment has been redirected

✗Sign-ins from strange places or devices

✗New mailbox rules hiding or forwarding your email

Don’t pay anyone and don’t delete anything — call us first on 0161 738 1399.

How we help

Calm, controlled recovery

Contain — Isolate affected accounts and devices and cut the attacker’s access.
Investigate — Work out how they got in and what they touched — preserving the evidence.
Eradicate — Remove malware, revoke stolen sessions and close the gaps.
Recover — Restore clean data and safe access, and get you working again.
Harden — MFA, monitoring and training so it doesn’t happen twice.

We help Preston businesses of every kind — SMEs, schools, charities and hospices — customer or not. Once you’re safe, we’ll help you stay that way with managed security, cyber security and our full incident response service.

Nearby

We help across the UK

FAQs

Common questions

We’ve been hacked in Preston — what first?

Call 0161 738 1399. Disconnect affected devices, don’t pay anyone and don’t delete anything — we’ll guide you.

Do you come to Preston?

We’re on your doorstep — remote help immediately, and on-site in Preston when it’s needed. Either way we start helping immediately.

Can you help if we’re not a customer?

Yes — we help any Preston business in trouble, whether you’re with us or not.

How much will it cost?

It depends on the incident — we’ll be clear upfront. Getting you safe comes first.

Been hacked? Don’t wait — call us now.

The sooner we’re in, the more we can save. We’re here to help, customer or not.

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