Cambridge is the UK's leading deep-tech and life-sciences cluster, with concentrated demand for Cyber Essentials Plus across biotech and pharma, semiconductor and AI tech, and the wider University of Cambridge spinout ecosystem that serves global enterprise and academic-research buyers.
Biotech and pharma across the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, with AstraZeneca, the Wellcome Sanger Institute, and a deep biotech spinout base.
Semiconductor, AI, and deep-tech across the wider Cambridge cluster, with Arm Ltd, Microsoft Research, and a growing AI and quantum-computing spinout base.
Professional services across the city centre, with regional law firms specialising in IP and tech, accountancy practices, and the venture-capital ecosystem that supports the spinouts.
AstraZeneca and the wider pharma supply chain reference Cyber Essentials for IT and BPO suppliers.
Arm Ltd and the deep-tech base in Cambridge face supply-chain cyber requirements from global semiconductor and tech customers.
Cambridge biotech and AI spinouts face B2B customer cyber due diligence (SOC 2 + Cyber Essentials Plus) at series-A and series-B funding stages from venture-capital DD processes.
Cambridge University and the research-grant supplier ecosystem reference Cyber Essentials in research-data-handling contracts.
Cambridge Station for rail (King's Cross 50 minutes), Stansted Airport for international assessor and client visits, M11 motorway connectivity. Most engagements remote with on-site sampling on assessment day.
Net Sec Group is an IASME Certification Body. Scoping call, estate walk-through, gap remediation, formal assessor sample, certificate. Typical CE Plus engagement runs 3-5 days from scoping call to certificate where the gap list is small.
All prices ex VAT and apply UK-wide. The cost calculator returns a tailored figure for your device count.
From £320
Self-assessment, 12-hour Fast Track or 48-hour standard
From £1,200
Assessor-led technical sample, 3-5 days
From £167/mo
CE Basic + CE Plus + Cyber 365 bundled monthly
The IASME £25,000 cyber insurance comes free with every Cyber Essentials certificate for qualifying UK SMEs under £20 million turnover. It is between the certified organisation and IASME. NetSec does not bundle, broker, or upsell it.
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