This blog is based on insight from our 2023 State of Cyber Security report. This month sees GDPR celebrate its 5th birthday, and during that time it’s stayed more-or-less the same. With unchanging rules and half a decade of time to get data protection things in order, you might think that the need for GDPR consultancy is dwindling. However, as we showed in our 2023 State of Cyber Security report, that’s sadly not the case.

Cyber Essentials, often just called CE, has been around for nearly a whole decade, and it’s still as popular as ever. The trick to its endurance is the yearly changes that keep it relevant. IASME, the governing body who work with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to maintain the standard, typically update Cyber Essentials every April, give or take a month, and 2023 is no different.