SME Cyber Security Resilience Project

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The NCSC’s Board Toolkit helps boards to ensure that cyber resilience and risk management are embedded throughout an organisation, including its people, systems, processes and technologies.

You can access the resources here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/board-toolkit/toolkits-toolbox

A Cyber Security Evaluation, Tool Built for SMEs

The NCSC My Cyber Toolkit helps organisations improve their cyber security. Through this online tool, Small, Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are asked targeted questions to assess their current security status. They are then provided with recommendations to address security vulnerabilities, identify weaknesses, implement stronger protections, and build resilience against cyber threats.

• How it works: https://cybertoolkit.service.ncsc.gov.uk/about
  

• Help & support: https://cybertoolkit.service.ncsc.gov.uk/support
  

You can access a beta version of My Cyber Toolkit here: https://cybertoolkit.service.ncsc.gov.uk/layer/foundation

SME Cyber Security Resilience Project

The SME Cyber Security Resilience Project adopts an integrated academic-industry approach that aligns project deliverables with natural academic cycles, while maintaining continuous progress toward improving SME security postures. This approach is designed to address several fundamental challenges in the cyber security ecosystem:

1. Resource Asymmetry: SMEs face sophisticated threats but lack dedicated security resources. Collaborative academic and industry activities, aims to create a sustainable force multiplier, in working towards effective security implementation.
   

2. Knowledge Transfer Gap: Traditional security consulting models often fail to build lasting capabilities within SMEs. This project emphasises the need for SME skill development and knowledge transfer, to create sustainable security practices.
   

3. Implementation Barriers: Security tools designed for enterprises are typically inappropriate for SME environments. For example, they may be too costly, require specialist expertise to deploy and maintain, or may be a mismatch in terms of requirements. The methodology for this project focuses…