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Cyber security advice for small to medium sized organisations

Expert advice from the NCSC to help protect UK businesses, charities, clubs, and schools with up to 250 employees from cyber threats online.


Small organisations guide to cyber security

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Is your organisation protected online?

Use our free easy-to-use online tool to check if cyber criminals could target you. 

Visit the Check Your Cyber Security tool
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Planning for a cyber incident

Cyber attacks can significantly impact a business, whatever the size or sector. Organisations should plan for cyber incidents as part of general risk planning. Putting in place a cyber incident response plan gives you a better change of mitigating the impact, helping to restore systems quickly and minimise business downtime.

Planning for an incident doesn’t have to be daunting. These resources will help your organisation understand the risk and build an effective response plan.

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Using external services safely

Guidance to help small organisations choose, set up and work safely with third party services, including online meeting platforms and managed service providers.

Get your business Cyber Essentials certified

Cyber Essentials is a simple but effective, government backed scheme that will help you to protect your organisation, whatever its size, against a whole range of common cyber attacks.

Learn more about Cyber Essentials
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Dealing with common cyber problems

Advice for these common issues:

Report a cyber incident

Find out where to report a cyber incident in the UK, Isle of Man or Channel Islands. 

Find out where to report your cyber incident

Think you're not a target?

4 in 10 businesses reported a cyber attack in the last 12 months*

*Cyber security breaches survey 2026

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