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These articles cover the public what and why. The paid customer area keeps the step-by-step route, evidence examples, gap log, and local Builder boundary separate from the website.
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.
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.
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.
We compared the official Willow and Danzell question sets question by question. Nothing was removed, most answers carry over, but the scope section renumbered, the insurance question flipped direction, and thirteen questions are new.
Most serious Cyber Essentials failures are decided before submission: wrong scope, weak MFA, unsupported software, assumed patching, and inconsistent answers.
The firewall section usually means routers, device software firewalls, admin passwords, inbound rules, remote administration, and dated rule reviews.
A practical orientation to the self-assessment: what the five controls mean, why scope comes first, what a defensible answer looks like, and how renewal changes the work.
