Cyber Essentials Singapore: A practical guide for businesses and MSPs
The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore’s (CSA) Cyber Essentials is a government-backed baseline certification designed to help organisations strengthen cyber hygiene and protect against common threats like ransomware, phishing, and data breaches. Download now to get cyber-ready.
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Learn how to strengthen cyber hygiene, achieve certification faster, scale compliance delivery, and build lasting trust and resilience.
What you’ll learn in this guide
Explore the CSA Cyber Essentials framework and discover how businesses and MSPs in Singapore can build cyber resilience, achieve certification faster, and stay competitive in a digital-first economy.
Cyber Essentials explained
Understand what Cyber Essentials is, why it matters in Singapore, and how it compares to the Cyber Trust mark.
Five key categories of Cyber Essentials
Learn the core areas—Assets, Secure/Protect, Update, Backup, and Respond—that form the foundation of good cyber hygiene.
Step-by-step certification process
Follow a structured, six-step roadmap from defining the assessment scope to achieving certification and maintaining ongoing compliance.
Benefits for businesses
See how Cyber Essentials boosts trust, resilience, compliance, and growth opportunities for Singaporean organisations.
Opportunities for MSPs and advisors
Discover how MSPs can use Cyber Essentials to streamline delivery, differentiate services, and unlock new revenue.
Accelerating readiness with 6clicks
Explore how AI-powered automation, continuous monitoring, and turnkey content and functionality make compliance faster and easier.
Simplify Cyber Essentials certification and build lasting resilience
Singapore’s digital economy is growing fast, and with it comes greater exposure to cyber threats. Over 8 in 10 organisations have faced incidents in the past year, making Cyber Essentials a critical baseline for businesses and MSPs alike. Whether you’re aiming to protect your own organisation or guide clients, this complete resource gives you the clarity, tools, and proven steps to get Cyber Essentials-certified faster and with greater confidence.
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Understand what Cyber Essentials is and why it matters for Singaporean businesses
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Master the five categories of cyber hygiene and how to apply them
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Follow a practical six-step roadmap to certification success
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Discover how MSPs can deliver greater client value and unlock new opportunities
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Learn how 6clicks accelerates readiness with AI-powered gap analysis, streamlined control management, and more
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Real stories from professionals in the field.
Michael Rasmussen
Analyst, GRC 20/20 Research LLC
“6clicks provides an integrated capability in a unified architecture to manage the array of risks across entities in the context of the objectives of the organization. Diversified entities using 6clicks allow for enterprise and operational risk management to work together in one platform.”
Belinda Edwards
Manager - Governance, Risk and Compliance, CyberCX
“This is where we see the benefit of moving away from a manual GRC process into a GRC tool like 6clicks, which enables you to map each of the different standards to your control set so you only have to do the assessment once.”
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