The CAF is built around the following four objectives that address key areas of cyber security:
- Managing security risk
- Protecting against cyber attacks
- Detecting cyber incidents
- Minimising the impact of incidents
These objectives guide organisations in setting up effective governance and risk management processes, implementing protective measures, monitoring systems for cyber threats, and ensuring they can recover swiftly from any cyber incidents.
The framework is outcome-focused, giving organisations the flexibility to decide how best to meet the objectives based on their unique operational needs and risk profiles.
How can we help?
Based on your requirements we can provide the right support to help you throughout your CAF journey, including:
Conducting Audits and Assessments
We can support you to identify your critical systems and assess their alignment to the Cyber Assessment Framework requirements. Alternatively, we can independently audit the findings of your own self-assessments.
Implementing improvements
We can deliver improvements to your organisational posture against the CAF, whether this involves technical, policy or organisational controls.
Designing and delivering remediation programmes
For organisations facing more stretching requirements, such as meeting Enhanced Profile expectations, we can design, manage and deliver strategic, business-wide cyber improvement programmes.
Regulatory submission and engagement
We can help you to understand the expectations and requirements of relevant regulators (‘Competent Authorities’) and help you to prepare for relevant engagements or reporting requirements. Our consultants have extensive experience working with – or for – many of the UK’s Competent Authorities.
Our Security Consultants are all vendor agnostic and come with a wide range of technical and information security (e.g. ISO 27001) skills and experience and are well placed to understand the impact that the implementation of the CAF Framework is likely to have on your organisation.
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Speak with one of our team to see how we can help you implement the NCSC CAF Framework.