ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents covers 50% of UK Cyber Essentials
18 of the 36 controls in UK Cyber Essentials are already satisfied by evidence you collected for ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents. 18 are genuine gaps. Every claim below was judged against both control sets and then argued against; the ones that did not survive are published further down with the reason each failed.
What this leaves you to do
UK Cyber Essentials has 36 controls. Holding ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents already evidences 18 of them, so the work in front of you is 18 controls, not 36, which is 50% of the standard rather than all of it.
That is the whole claim. Every number in that sentence comes from the two counts above it and can be re-derived from the free tools without taking our word for any of it.
In money, using only our numbers. The full report is $299 and names 18 controls of UK Cyber Essentials you do not have to implement again, which is $16.61 per control identified. That arithmetic uses our price and our count and assumes nothing about you.
In your hours, using your assumption. We do not know what a control costs you to implement, so pick the column that looks like your organisation. These are your figures, not our claim.
| If a control takes you | 4 hours | 8 hours | 16 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| the 18 already evidenced are | 72 hours | 144 hours | 288 hours |
| and the 18 remaining are | 72 hours | 144 hours | 288 hours |
Multiply by your own rate. We publish no rate because we have not measured yours, and a number built on an invented rate is the kind of claim this platform exists to argue against.
This number is directional. It says how much of UK Cyber Essentials your ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents evidence satisfies. The reverse pair is a different number, often very different, because a security standard has enormous depth for access control and almost none for lawful basis or data subject rights.
32 candidate mappings were examined and 0 were removed. Signed off 2026-08-19.
Claims that did not hold
Nothing proposed for this pair was rejected in review. That is unusual and worth knowing rather than hiding: it means the candidate set was small and every candidate held.
The full report
Everything above is a sample. The report is every evidenced control and every gap, with the reasoning and the source document behind each one, in a form you can hand to an assessor. $299, emailed immediately.
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