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Cyber Essentials for UK startups: a 4-week roadmap

DevNex Security Team 25 March 2026 5 min read

Cyber Essentials is the lowest-friction way for a UK startup to prove a baseline security posture — and increasingly required by public sector and enterprise buyers.

In this article we share a 4-week roadmap we have used with dozens of startups to go from zero to certified without slowing engineering down.

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