Audience
UK small and medium businesses (typically 1-250 employees) preparing for Cyber Essentials or Cyber Essentials Plus certification — especially those bidding for government or supply-chain contracts, MSPs advising clients on compliance, and any SME asked by a customer or insurer to prove baseline cyber hygiene.
About BrightCert
BrightCert helps UK small and medium businesses get ready for Cyber Essentials certification without hiring a consultant first. Most SMEs don't know where they stand until they've already paid £2,000-5,000 for a gap analysis. BrightCert flips that: a free, 60-question, plain-English assessment across the five official Cyber Essentials control areas produces a scored, prioritised gap report in about two hours. The full report unlocks at £199. Built and run by a security researcher (MSc Cyber Security, EC-Council certified), BrightCert is UK-specific end to end — UK pricing, UK terminology, and an honest scope: it prepares businesses for certification, it doesn't issue the certificate itself (that comes from an IASME-licensed Certification Body). BrightCert is being built for the Google "Build with Gemini" XPRIZE hackathon, using Gemini to analyse assessment responses and generate the readiness report.
