Website
Guides and gates
Account access, subscription state, operational logs, and lightweight mission progress.
UK Cyber Essentials2026 question set
Prepare Cyber Essentials yourself, without the consultant price tag.
RightCyber walks you through the 2026 question set in plain English — scope, answers, evidence, and gaps — in a local-first desktop Evidence Builder that keeps everything on your machine. Next year you renew from this year's work instead of a blank page.
£149
First year, then £50/yr
£500+
Typical consultant fee
106
Questions covered
25
Guided missions
Local-first trust
The website guides. The Builder stores.
Answers and evidence stay in your local workspace. The hosted site handles access, checkout, updates, and mission progress; it is not an evidence vault and it does not ask for private files.
Read the trust modelDesktop Builder
Stores the work
Answers, evidence notes, attached files, screenshots, gaps, exports, and backups stay local.
Official portal
You submit
You choose what to send to your certification body; RightCyber does not decide the outcome.
Inside the Builder
The surfaces you will actually work in.
These panels are live re-creations of the Builder's real screens, using the demo workspace's fictional company. The screenshots further down are unedited captures of the same product.
Questions
Answer once, keep the evidence attached
Every question carries its answer, evidence notes, and status together — so next year starts from a real position.
A4.1
Boundary firewall coverage
ReadyYes
No
[Evidence Snapshot NF-LAPTOP-01] Firewall profiles: domain, private, public - all enabled
Evidence note linkedSaved locally
Evidence Snapshot
Device facts, collected locally
Snapshot artefacts record update age, firewall state, and account posture per device — integrity-hashed and readable offline.
NF-LAPTOP-01Updated 3 days ago · Firewall on
NF-WORKSHOP-0142 days since last update
Snapshot integrity verified1 of 2 needs attention
Renewal Import
Last year's answers, mapped forward
Import last year's answers and the Builder maps them onto this year's question set — carrying unchanged answers, renumbering moved ones, and flagging real requirement changes for review.
A2.7A2.4Renumbered - answer carried
A3.2Requirement changed - review
62 answers carried unchanged in substance; nothing enters your workspace without a confirmation tick.
Tender Outputs
Documents buyers can verify
Generate tender-facing documents from the workspace, with certificate details a buyer can check on the official register.
Tender Security Pack
DOCX · HTML · MDDEMO-CE-000000verifiable on the official register
States your preparation position as it is - never an assessment outcome.
Product proof
See the Builder before you buy.
Inspect the desktop Builder, the evidence workflow, and the export model before checkout. The website only tracks mission progress — everything you put into the Builder stays on your device.
Real Builder screens
Every screenshot is an unedited product screen from the demo Builder's fictional company — not a mockup.
Sample Evidence Pack outline
Shows how answers, evidence notes, actions, and final review material fit together.
No evidence upload
Evidence files stay on your machine. You never upload them to us, and we could not read them if you did not choose to share them.
Try it in two minutes
Download the demo Builder — no signup, no sales call.
The demo opens a fictional 12-person company, Norton & Frey Ltd, mid-way through preparation: answered questions, open gaps, device snapshots, and tender documents you can generate yourself. Everything runs locally and nothing leaves your machine. Buying unlocks your own workspace in the full Builder.
Sample Evidence Pack outline
- Question references mapped to answer notes.
- Evidence file locations and owner actions.
- Final review checks before the responsible-person declaration.
Workspace contents
What you get.
The product is deliberately narrow: written guidance, a local Evidence Builder, template assets, and clear boundaries.
Guidance
25 guided missions
A single working route from Builder setup through scope, evidence, controls, gap closure, and local Evidence Pack review.
Core tool
Evidence Builder
Local desktop workspace mapped to A1–A8 with answer notes, attached evidence, action tracking, and checklist.
Assets
Template packs
Internal policy and SOP templates, plus Consultant deliverables on the higher licence.
Boundary
Preparation only
No certifying-body role, no guarantee, no managed remediation, no cloud evidence storage.
How it works
From first review to a submission-ready Evidence Pack.
- 01
Understand the scheme
Learn how the assessment works, what causes delays, and where Cyber Essentials Basic differs from Plus.
- 02
Build the applicant profile
Resolve legal entity, addresses, renewal status, insurance questions, and reason for applying.
- 03
Define scope and inventory
Map sites, networks, devices, cloud services, BYOD, and outsourced IT responsibilities.
- 04
Evidence the five controls
Work through firewalls, secure configuration, access control, malware protection, and security updates.
- 05
Review the submission pack
Use the final mission and Evidence Builder to close gaps and check answer consistency.
Latest Cyber Essentials updates
Current public guidance before you buy.
Start with the public changes, costs, and failure points. The customer area keeps the step-by-step mission route separate from local Builder work.
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Government buyers must require Cyber Essentials on in-scope contracts under PPN 014, with evidence before contract award. This article explains the rule, the register buyers use to verify certificates, and how to keep the security section of every bid answerable from your own records.
Updated 2 Jul 2026
Cyber Essentials Cost in 2026: What You'll Really Pay
Assessment fees are only the visible part of Cyber Essentials. This article explains the official fee, time cost, remediation risk, and when a failed submission means paying again.
Updated 18 Jun 2026
Cyber Essentials Changes in 2026: Danzell v3.3 Explained
Danzell changed the Cyber Essentials assessment shape in April 2026. The most important updates are cloud scope, MFA enforcement, patching auto-fails, and the responsible-person declaration.
Updated 18 Jun 2026
Independent preparation
Do the preparation once, properly. Renew from it every year.
Annual access to the guided missions, the desktop Builder, and the templates is £149 for the first year, then £50/year while you stay subscribed.
RightCyber provides independent Cyber Essentials preparation support. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by NCSC or IASME.