Venditan achieves Cyber Essentials Plus certification at first attempt

Cyber Essentials Plus is the independently tested level of the UK Government backed Cyber Essentials scheme, which helps organisations protect themselves against common cyber attacks. Achieving it requires an external assessor to carry out practical technical checks on systems and devices within the assessment’s scope, verifying that the required protections are in place and working effectively.

Achieving Cyber Essentials Plus demonstrates that Venditan’s security controls have stood up to independent technical scrutiny, giving clients additional confidence in the business they trust to support their retail operations.

John Coyne, Managing Director at Venditan, said:

“This is an achievement we’re proud of, and one that matters to our clients. We provide technology that sits at the heart of their businesses, where security and reliability have a direct bearing on their ability to trade and serve customers.

Achieving Cyber Essentials Plus gives them independent assurance that the controls assessed have been tested and meet the requirements of the scheme. Passing at the first attempt is a credit to the people across Venditan whose work made this possible.”

Delivering the certification involved coordinated work across the business, from development and infrastructure through to day-to-day operational practice.

Michael Simcoe, Operations Director at Venditan, adds:

"I’m proud of the team. Getting to Cyber Essentials Plus first time took coordinated work across IT, development and operations, covering every device, system and endpoint we manage. It's given us a repeatable standard we'll hold ourselves to every year."

Achieving Cyber Essentials Plus also helps ensure Venditan's practices stay aligned with current expectations around data protection and platform security, an area that continues to move quickly across eCommerce as threats evolve and client and regulatory expectations rise with them.

Building the annual review into how the business operates means those standards get revisited on a fixed cycle, rather than drifting between audits.