Newcastle upon Tyne anchors the wider North East economy, with concentrated demand for Cyber Essentials Plus across financial services back-office operations, healthcare and life sciences, advanced manufacturing, and a strong tech and digital cluster.
Financial services and BPO across the city centre and the Quayside, with Sage Group, Barclays operations, HMRC operations, and a deep BPO and shared-services base.
Tech and digital across the Helix and the Newcastle Helix Innovation District, with B2B SaaS firms serving UK and European enterprise buyers, anchored on Newcastle University.
Advanced manufacturing across the wider North East, including Nissan supply chain in Sunderland and the offshore-renewables supply chain in the Tees Valley.
HMRC operations in Newcastle reference Cyber Essentials in supplier procurement.
Nissan and the wider North East automotive supply chain face tier-1 customer cyber audits.
North East Combined Authority supplier procurement references Cyber Essentials.
Sage Group and the regional fintech base face B2B customer cyber due diligence at the same intensity as Manchester and Edinburgh peers.
Newcastle Central for rail (East Coast Main Line), Newcastle International Airport for assessor and client visits, A1(M) 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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