As of April 27th 2026, there are important changes to Cyber Essentials which all organisations holding, or looking to achieve Cyber Essentials or Cyber Essentials Plus, must be aware of. These changes have come about to reflect what is being seen by IASME and the National Cyber Security Centre across real-world incidents, evolving cyber threats and feedback from assessments. The current question set is being updated to tighten certain criteria and to help organisations becom

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now being weaponised as threat actors leverage AI at every stage of the attack lifecycle to launch faster, more widespread and more damaging attacks on businesses. This fundamental shift in the threat landscape means cyber criminals can now automate their reconnaissance of businesses, scaling to the scanning thousands of systems, enumerating software versions, analysing configurations, and pinpointing vulnerabilities in Internet-facing busines

The AI Cyber Attack Threat Landscape It’s a sad state of affairs but Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now being weaponised as threat actors leverage AI at every stage of the attack lifecycle to launch faster, more widespread and more damaging attacks on businesses. Anthropic’s Threat Intelligence Report August 2025 found: AI models are now being used to carry out cyber-attacks at scale AI has lowered the barriers to entry with fewer technical skills required to launch com