Webinar: Secure your supply chain with Cyber Essentials and Cyber Swift
Supply chain cyber security has stopped being a “nice to have” and become a hard commercial reality. Whether you’re being asked by a customer to prove your suppliers meet certain standards, or you’re trying to protect your own business from third-party risk, the question is the same:
How do you get real confidence in your supply chain without drowning in spreadsheets and questionnaires?
That’s exactly what we’ll be covering in our February webinar, “Securing Your Supply Chain with Cyber Essentials and Cyber Swift.”
This session is designed for business leaders, procurement teams, supplier managers, and anyone responsible for due diligence and risk — particularly if you’re feeling the pressure from customers, insurers, auditors, or regulators to demonstrate stronger supply chain controls.
Why Cyber Essentials is the baseline (and why that matters)
When people talk about “the NCSC approach to supply chain security”, what they usually mean in practice is this: start with a clear, achievable baseline that suppliers can actually meet, then scale up assurance where risk justifies it.
Cyber Essentials is the UK’s most practical minimum standard for cyber hygiene. It’s not a silver bullet — nothing is — but it is the minimum viable control that helps organisations protect themselves against the most common attack paths. And crucially, it gives customers and suppliers a shared language for what “good enough to start” looks like.
In this webinar, we’ll show you how to use Cyber Essentials as the backbone of a supply chain programme that’s realistic for SMEs, but still credible for larger organisations with tougher expectations.
Guest speakers: IASME Cyber Essentials experts
We’re delighted that IASME will be joining us with Cyber Essentials experts Paul Crumpton and Anjali Fowler as guest speakers.
They’ll walk through how the NCSC thinks about supply chain security in the real world — what good looks like, what tends to go wrong, and why Cyber Essentials is so often the practical “first step” that unlocks progress across the whole supply chain.
This is the bit most organisations miss: supply chain security isn’t just about having a policy — it’s about having a scalable method to raise standards across dozens (or hundreds) of suppliers without creating a procurement traffic jam.
Where Cyber Swift changes the game
Even when organisations know what they want to require, they struggle with the doing:
supplier lists scattered across systems
evidence collected once and never reviewed
certifications expiring quietly
inconsistent requirements between teams
no easy way to show leadership (or customers) what’s happening
That’s why we built the Cyber Swift Supply Chain Portal.
During the webinar, we’ll show how Cyber Swift helps you:
identify and prioritise suppliers based on risk
set clear requirements (Cyber Essentials as the baseline, with stronger standards for critical suppliers where needed)
track supplier cyber resilience over time — not just at onboarding
produce evidence and reporting that stands up to scrutiny
reduce admin overhead while improving control
Put bluntly: Cyber Swift turns supply chain security from a one-off compliance fire drill into a managed process.
What you’ll take away
By the end of the session you’ll have a clear view of:
how to structure supplier risk tiers in a way procurement can actually run
why Cyber Essentials is the minimum viable control — and how to apply it sensibly
when to push for higher assurance (including what’s realistic for SMEs vs what large organisations often demand for critical suppliers)
how to operationalise the whole thing using Cyber Swift
Register now
Places are limited, so grab your spot here:
If you’re tired of supply chain security being a vague worry, a painful spreadsheet exercise, or a contractual panic at tender time — this webinar will give you a practical, modern way to take control.