# Unified compliance dashboard for Cyber Essentials compliance

Continuously monitor the five technical controls required by the UK's Cyber Essentials scheme through one unified compliance dashboard. Identify security risks, strengthen your security posture, and stay prepared for Cyber Essentials certification.

## Gain actionable insights into every Cyber Essentials control in one place

### Firewalls

![Firewalls Cyber Essentials compliance dashboard](https://cdn.manageengine.com/sites/meweb/images/analytics-plus/landing-page/meap-cyber-essentials-dash1.svg)

Monitor firewall activity, network traffic, blocked connections, and security events through a unified compliance dashboard that helps you quickly identify anomalies and assess the health of your security perimeter.

### Secure configuration

![Secure configuration Cyber Essentials compliance dashboard](https://cdn.manageengine.com/sites/meweb/images/analytics-plus/landing-page/meap-cyber-essentials-dash2.svg)

Track configuration compliance, system changes, endpoint health, and asset inventory to identify configuration drift and maintain secure baselines across your environment.

### Security update management

![Security update management Cyber Essentials compliance dashboard](https://cdn.manageengine.com/sites/meweb/images/analytics-plus/landing-page/meap-cyber-essentials-dash3.svg)

Analyze patch compliance, vulnerability exposure, remediation progress, and update trends to prioritize critical issues and reduce security risks.

### User access control

![User access control Cyber Essentials compliance dashboard](https://cdn.manageengine.com/sites/meweb/images/analytics-plus/landing-page/meap-cyber-essentials-dash4.svg)

Visualize authentication activity, privileged account usage, permission changes, and failed logins to identify access-related risks and strengthen identity controls.

### Malware protection

![Malware protection Cyber Essentials compliance dashboard](https://cdn.manageengine.com/sites/meweb/images/analytics-plus/landing-page/meap-cyber-essentials-dash5.svg)

Monitor malware detections, endpoint protection status, security alerts, and device health to evaluate the effectiveness of your malware defenses.

## Why choose Analytics Plus for Cyber Essentials compliance

### Gain complete visibility into your Cyber Essentials controls

Bring together endpoint, identity, network, vulnerability, security, and IT operations data into a unified compliance dashboard for continuous compliance monitoring of the five Cyber Essentials controls.

### Understand what's impacting your Cyber Essentials compliance

Visualize how configuration changes, firewall activity, patch compliance, access permissions, and malware trends influence each other. Use AI to automatically uncover the root causes behind gaps affecting your Cyber Essentials controls.

### Detect emerging Cyber Essentials compliance risks before they escalate

Automatically spot unusual patterns in authentication activity, vulnerability trends, endpoint health, and remediation progress. Surface anomalies early to strengthen security compliance before they impact your Cyber Essentials certification.

### Make every Cyber Essentials security decision with complete context

Go beyond dashboards with AI-powered insights and contextual decision intelligence that uncover hidden risks, explain changes across your Cyber Essentials controls, and deliver remediation strategies for faster, more informed security decisions.

### Stay ahead of Cyber Essentials certification risks

Forecast remediation progress, vulnerability trends, and patch compliance to proactively strengthen your Cyber Essentials controls, maintain certification readiness, and avoid last-minute scrambles.

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## Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

### How does Analytics Plus help with Cyber Essentials compliance?

Analytics Plus brings data related to the five Cyber Essentials controls into a unified compliance dashboard for continuous compliance monitoring. It helps security teams monitor control effectiveness, identify compliance gaps, uncover security risks, and make informed decisions that strengthen Cyber Essentials compliance.

### What is the UK's Cyber Essentials scheme?

The UK's Cyber Essentials scheme is a government-backed cybersecurity certification program that helps organizations defend against common cyber threats through five technical security controls. Analytics Plus provides continuous visibility into these controls with unified dashboards and AI-powered analytics, helping organizations strengthen security compliance and prepare for Cyber Essentials certification.

### Can Analytics Plus monitor all five Cyber Essentials controls?

Yes. Analytics Plus supports continuous compliance monitoring for all five Cyber Essentials controls—firewalls, secure configuration, security update management, user access control, and malware protection. With it, your teams can measure control performance, monitor trends, and drive remediation efforts effortlessly from one unified console.

### Can Analytics Plus integrate with my existing security tools?

Yes. Analytics Plus integrates with ManageEngine products and an extensive range of third-party security, endpoint, identity, cloud, ITSM, and infrastructure solutions. It complements your existing security stack by consolidating data into a unified compliance dashboard, giving you a 360-view of your environment.

### How does Analytics Plus help prepare for Cyber Essentials certification?

Unlike point-in-time assessments, continuous compliance monitoring gives you ongoing visibility into the five Cyber Essentials controls. Analytics Plus helps you identify emerging risks, monitor remediation progress, and address compliance gaps proactively, reducing last-minute effort before Cyber Essentials certification.