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.

AI & Copilot

What is Microsoft Copilot Studio?

It’s the tool behind “build your own AI agent” — here’s what Copilot Studio is and what you can do with it.

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Why Foresight

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Quick answer

Microsoft Copilot Studio is a low-code tool for building your own AI agents and copilots — without being a developer. You use it to create agents that answer questions, follow processes and connect to your business data and systems (Microsoft 365, plus hundreds of other apps), then publish them to Teams, your website or Microsoft 365 Copilot. It’s how most Microsoft-based businesses build custom AI agents. Licensing is either included with certain Microsoft plans or bought as a standalone or consumption-based licence.

What you build

Your own agents and copilots

Copilot Studio lets you create AI agents that do useful, specific jobs: answer common customer or staff questions, guide someone through a process, look things up in your systems, and hand off to a human when needed. You build them visually — defining what the agent knows, what it’s allowed to do, and where it lives.

How it works

Four building blocks

Part	What it means
Knowledge	The documents, sites or data the agent can draw on
Topics / instructions	What the agent is for and how it should behave
Actions / connectors	The systems it can act on — Microsoft 365 and hundreds of other apps
Channels	Where you publish it — Teams, your website, or Microsoft 365 Copilot

Who it’s for

Low-code, not no-governance

You don’t need to be a developer — but you do need to get the data access and security right, because these agents can reach real business data. We build agents in Copilot Studio with least-privilege access and proper AI security and governance. For the step-by-step, see how to build AI agents for your business, and what an AI agent is.

Licensing

A quick note

Copilot Studio is included with some Microsoft licences and also available as a standalone or pay-as-you-go (consumption) licence. Pricing changes, so as a Microsoft CSP we’ll confirm the current, most cost-effective option for your setup.