Secure Innovation Security Reviews offer innovative early-stage UK technology businesses expert, tailored guidance to help protect their ideas, technologies, competitive edge and reputations.
Delivered by approved security reviewers, the service helps businesses identify and manage key security risks, including those linked to state threats and helps them integrate protective security into their broader business strategies.
A Security Review provides a high-level assessment of an organisation’s security posture, covering:
- Protective Security Governance
- Security Culture
- Risk Management
- Cyber Security
- Secure Supply Chains and Partnerships
- Incident Management
A key component of the Secure Innovation campaign, the Security Review scheme is funded through a joint initiative between the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), National Protective Security Authority (NPSA), and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The scheme bears the majority cost of each Review through a £2,500 grant, with a supplement of £500 from each business.
Businesses receiving a Security Review will also receive a £300 voucher towards Cyber Essentials certification. Cyber Essentials is recommended by the NCSC as the minimum baseline for cyber security in the UK.
Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, administers the scheme across the UK, which is available to 500 businesses.
For further information please select the following link: Secure Innovation Security Reviews - Innovate UK Business Connect.
For further support on cyber security, visit the National Cyber Security Centre’s website and the Cyber Essentials programme, a UK Government-backed certification scheme that helps keep your organisation’s, and your customers’, data safe from cyber attacks.
Help is also available for people, businesses and public services to reduce the risk of cyber on Cyber security advice and guidance | GOV.WALES.