Plain English help for UK businesses getting insured, certified, and protected against cyber attacks.
What UK SMEs pay for cyber insurance in 2026: typical premiums by size and sector, what drives the price, and how MFA, EDR and Cyber Essentials cut it.
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Costs
Cyber Essentials Cost UK and the April 2026 MFA Rule Explained
What Cyber Essentials costs in the UK in 2026 by company size, plus the 27 April MFA rule that fails you on the spot if cloud MFA is off.
Guides
How to Get the Free £25,000 Cyber Insurance Bundled With Cyber Essentials
UK firms under £20m turnover get £25,000 of free cyber liability insurance with Cyber Essentials. Here is exactly how to qualify, opt in, and what it covers.
Getting cyber insurance or Cyber Essentials certified has become a maze of jargon, and most UK businesses don’t have a security team to make sense of it. We explain it in plain English: what cover actually pays out for, what the certification questions really mean, and the specific controls insurers now check before they’ll quote you.
This site is for owners, office managers and IT leads at firms with roughly 5 to 250 staff who need to get insured or certified without hiring a specialist. We walk through Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus, compare cyber liability policies, and break down the controls that keep coming up on insurer questionnaires: multi-factor authentication, EDR, tested backups, patching and access management.
Brokers and IT providers researching on a client’s behalf will find the same detail here, written to be quoted to a non-technical board. No scare tactics and no sales pitch, just the steps that get you certified, insured and genuinely harder to attack.