Cyber Security NPO

ACSEMS is a leading Cyber Security NPO in Singapore, helping nonprofits and enterprises strengthen digital resilience with globally recognized frameworks.

Boost your cyber protection with the improved Cyber Essentials and Cyber Trust standards.

In the rapidly changing digital world, organizations are confronting a growing array of sophisticated threats that extend well beyond conventional IT infrastructure. To support businesses in addressing these challenges, the CSA is upgrading its Cyber Essentials and Cyber Trust certifications to offer broader and more inclusive protection. These enhanced certifications will now encompass Cloud Security, Operational Technology (OT) Security, and AI Security, delivering a thorough and integrated strategy to safeguard against modern cyber risks.

New features in the updated certification

The upgraded Cyber Essentials and Cyber Trust certifications now provide organizations with updated security measures and guidelines to tackle evolving cyber threats across critical domains:

Cloud Security

Protecting sensitive data and ensuring safe cloud deployment and management.

Operational Technology

Defending industrial control systems against cyberattacks.

AI Security

Applying best practices to secure AI-powered applications and addressing unique AI-related risks.

Why is certification important?

By earning certification, organizations prove their commitment to excellence in cybersecurity, long-term resilience, and trust—key pillars for success in today’s threat-filled digital world.

Boost Security and Cyber Resilience

The Cyber Essentials and Cyber Trust certifications offer a proven framework to strengthen your organization’s cybersecurity defenses, safeguarding IT, cloud, OT, and AI systems against evolving threats.

Enhance Stakeholder Confidence

Achieving certification demonstrates your dedication to cybersecurity, reassuring customers and partners that your organization is committed to protecting critical data and digital infrastructure.

Stand Out in the Market

In an era where cyber resilience sets businesses apart, Cyber Essentials and Cyber Trust certification distinguishes your organization as a secure and reliable partner, opening doors to new opportunities. In the nonprofit space, this might mean a donor viewing a campaign online, receiving follow-up impact updates via SMS, and responding to a personalized email appeal.

Meet Compliance with Ease

The updated certifications align with global cybersecurity standards, helping organizations efficiently fulfill regulatory requirements and industry best practices.

Stay Ahead of Emerging Threats

As cyber risks grow more sophisticated, these certifications provide forward-looking guidance, ensuring your business stays protected and adaptable in a fast-changing digital landscape.

Auditing Process

Understand your operational landscape and assess potential cybersecurity risks.

Apply strategies involving personnel, procedures, and technological solutions to protect your organization’s critical resources.

Strengthen cyber resilience.

Includes personnel, data, and IT infrastructure.

Establish network segmentation and security measures between IT and OT systems while planning for integrated IT/OT infrastructure.

Deploy alternative security solutions for older OT devices lacking built-in cybersecurity capabilities.

1. Access & Identity Management

Implement strong controls for cloud access and credential protection.

2. Workload Protection

Ensure security measures for all cloud-hosted applications and data.

3. Configuration Management

Regularly audit and harden cloud infrastructure settings.

Secure input data – Audit and safeguard all information fed into AI.

System protection – Implement security controls for AI infrastructure and applications.

Output validation – Monitor and evaluate all results generated by AI.

Which certification is right for your organization?

Advance your security strategy today. Explore certification details and embark on your path to robust cyber protection.

Cyber Essentials

Small organizations seeking to implement essential cybersecurity measures

Cyber Trust

As an enterprise-level organization, you're adopting a strategic, risk-focused methodology to strengthen your cybersecurity framework

How ACSEMS supports your certification journey

1) Baseline assessment

We map current posture to certification domains, catalogue assets, and interview key staff. You receive a concise risk picture and a prioritised backlog tied to concrete controls.

2) Remediation plan

We start with fast wins—MFA everywhere, backup hardening, admin cleanup, phishing filters—then schedule medium‑term improvements to sustain momentum.

3) Secure‑by‑default setup

We standardise secure cloud configurations, automate patching, enforce least privilege, and rationalise tooling so security becomes the easy default, not a stressful afterthought.

4) Evidence & documentation

We prepare policies, asset inventories, playbooks, risk registers, and vendor reviews. Each control is mapped to the relevant requirement so audits become predictable.

5) Training & drills

Role‑based sessions build the right habits for staff and volunteers. Tabletop exercises rehearse incident roles, keeping the organisation calm and coordinated when seconds matter.

6) Certification handoff

We coordinate with certification bodies, assemble the evidence pack, and guide submissions. Your team learns the process so renewals are faster and smoother.

What We Deliver

Policies

Acceptable Use, Access Control, Incident Response, Backup, Third‑Party, and AI Use.

Records

Onboarding/offboarding, change logs, risk assessments, and incident reports.

Technical guardrails

MFA, EDR, identity hygiene, encrypted backups, secure cloud baselines, and OT safeguards.

People measures

Phishing awareness, reporting lines, and vendor questionnaires.

Audit proof

Evidence neatly mapped to each certification domain.