As digitisation creates new opportunities, it inadvertently increases enterprises’ and individuals’ exposure to cyber risks. The risk is heightened during crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic where we witnessed an accelerated adoption of information technology, 

Cybersecurity thus becomes a critical enabler to Singapore’s digital economy. Cybersecurity incidents often result in financial losses, tarnish business reputations and affect customers’ trust. They erode business investments and people’s confidence in the digital economy and sabotage progress. Hence, there is a strong need to build confidence in enterprises to enable them to pursue digital opportunities.

Cybersecurity standards were developed for industry adoption and designed to support the cybersecurity needs of a wide range of enterprises. The standards take on a guided approach to help enterprises in their journey towards the implementation of cybersecurity in the organisation.

Enterprises differ in terms of the nature business, size (which may be measured by parameters such as capital turnover or employment size) and the extent of digitalisation in their business. These have a corresponding impact on their cybersecurity risk profile. As such, the CSA Cybersecurity Certification takes on a tiered approach to address differing business profiles and needs with two certification marks - Cyber Essentials mark and the Cyber Trust mark. 

Collectively, the Cyber Essentials mark and Cyber Trust mark provide a cybersecurity risk management approach for enterprises.

Cyber Essentials mark

The Cyber Essentials mark is a cybersecurity certification for organisations that are embarking on their cybersecurity journey. It serves to recognise that your organisation has put in place good cyber hygiene practices to protect your operations and your customers against common cyber attacks.

Cyber Essentials is tailored to your organisation's cybersecurity needs and it simplifies cybersecurity by prioritising the measures to focus on first. 

Please refer to CSA website for more details.

The cost of the Cyber Essential mark for companies of various sizes is presented in the table below.

Cyber Trust mark

The Cyber Trust mark is a cybersecurity certification for enterprises that have that have gone beyond cyber hygiene. It serves as a mark of distinction that the organisation has put in place good cybersecurity practices and measures that commensurate with their cybersecurity risk profile.

As the Cyber Trust mark takes on a risk-based approach, it is intended to enable enterprises to put in place the relevant cybersecurity preparedness measures that commensurate with their cybersecurity risk profile.

The cost of Cyber Trust Mark Certification starts from $4,290 and it depends on the parameters like the tier and scope of certification, effective headcount for the proposed scope of certification, number of sites within the scope of certification, Business and IT complexity, etc. 

Please refer to CSA website for more details.  There are also government grants for eligible companies and the details could be found in sub-section “d. Funding Support” within the CSA website.

You can also contact us at sales@epi-certification.com or 8823 3347 for more details.

Upon a successful audit/review, company will be issued with a certificate.