CompTIA Member Matters
CyberSmart Feels the Benefits of CompTIA Membership
CyberSmart joined CompTIA in mid-2017 and has never looked back. “We joined on the recommendation of one member who said we’d be a great fit,” said Thomas Seilding, relationship manager at CyberSmart. “We’ve since made some great new contacts and we’re really benefiting from the mentoring that CompTIA provides around how to build channels and work with different partners.” To help UK businesses become
safer online, CyberSmart developed an innovative new platform that automates the implementation of the Governments Cyber Essentials programme. Cyber Essentials is a checklist of steps that businesses should take to achieve a base level of cybersecurity and was created in 2014. It has since become a mandatory certification for businesses to sell to government and is regarded as one of the first steps to complying with GDPR. Seilding explained that “the obstacle CyberSmart [needed to overcome] is that a lot of the Cyber Essentials programme is written in government language, meaning that a lot of businesses don’t really understand it and require consultants to help.” CyberSmart created an app to automate the process. It can be installed on machines and automatically assesses them and advises on the steps it needs to take to hit Cyber Essentials requirements, helping businesses to save money by making consultancy more efficient. Here, the sheer amount of marketing
material the CyberSmart team has access to as part of its CompTIA membership proved invaluable. In addition, Seilding said, the online training courses, whitepaper and webinars CompTIA offers provide incredible insights that are difficult to match. CyberSmart has certainly seen the benefits of joining CompTIA. “Our membership fee has
“Our membership fee has easily repaid itself in a month.”
easily repaid itself in a month,” Seilding said.
Thomas Seilding, CyberSmart, CompTIA UK Channel Community
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