Automating the Cyber Essentials Questionnaire

In this article, you will find:

• Navigation guidance for accessing the Cyber Essentials questionnaire automation feature.

• A guide for completing the Cyber Essentials questionnaire within the platform.

Accessing the Cyber Essentials Questionnaire

Within the Cyber Essentials Questionnaire area you can easily complete the self-assessment questionnaire required for Cyber Essentials certification.

It can be accessed by selecting Cyber Essentials Questionnaire from within Audit & Assessment > Assessment, as shown below:

Cyber Essentials Questionnaire navigation guidance

Automating the Questionnaire

Using the OneClickComply platform, you can easily complete the self-assessed questionnaire needed for Cyber Essentials certification. Any tasks that you have automatically fix, or completed manually, will be automatically inputted into the relevant areas of the questionnaire, ensuring that your answers are fully aligned with the security processes that you have in place. Additionally, any information that has been added to the in-platform ISMS areas, such as the risk or asset registers, will be taken into account during the response generation.

Let's have a look at the steps needed to complete a questionnaire within the OneClickComply platform.

When you first click on the Cyber Essentials Questionnaire dropdown, you will see the following page:

Starting the cyber essentials questionnaire

From this point, selecting either Get Started or Questionnaires will take you to your list of completed questionnaires, similar to the example below:

Creating a new questionnaire

This page will show you any previous questionnaires that you have either partially completed, or finished creating. To start a new questionnaire, click Create, as highlighted above. This will bring up a new window, asking you to name your document.

Naming cyber essentials questionnaire

Once named, click Next. You will then the questions from the Cyber Essentials self-assessment, with text boxes to write answers, as shown below:

Example section from cyber essentials questionnaire

From here, simply fill out the boxes with the required information. When you reach the end of a section, the next one will automatically appear. Any previous technical work that you have completed will automatically be inserted into the questionnaire at the end, including any relevant information from the in-platform ISMS, so all you have to do is answer the remaining questions.

Once all the associated information has been inserted into the form, you will be able to press the Submit button, and begin generating the document.

To learn about signing and submitting your completed questionnaire to your chosen assessor, please see our dedicated support article.