Security & Compliance / NCSC CAF Consultant UK
NCSC CAF & Cyber Resilience Readiness — Gap Assessment, Remediation & Evidence
CAF v4.0 raised the bar on threat-informed risk, secure development, monitoring, and AI risk. GovAssure runs annually, the CAF-aligned DSPT lands each June, and the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill extends obligations to managed service providers and designated critical suppliers. Most organisations fail on evidence of effectiveness, not on absence of controls.
Readiness and remediation, stated plainly.
We prepare organisations for CAF assessment and build the engineering that makes the outcomes true: gap assessment against v4.0, remediation architecture, and the evidence pack that supports the position you claim. To be explicit about scope — from April 2026 the GovAssure Stage 4 Independent Assurance Review may only be delivered by a provider on the NCSC Cyber Resilience Audit scheme. We prepare you for that review; we do not perform it.
CAF gap assessment
Objective-by-objective review against CAF v4.0 with an honest achieved or partially-achieved position for each contributing outcome, and an improvement narrative that stands up to challenge.
Remediation architecture
The engineering behind the outcomes: network segmentation, privileged access, security monitoring and threat hunting, identity, certificate services, and tested backup and recovery.
Assurance evidence
Evidence packs, design decision records, and board-ready risk framing, aligned to Secure by Design for services passing through Cabinet Office spend controls.
Anonymised delivery evidence.
- On an IL3 and OFFICIAL government cloud platform, designed the monitoring and automation toolset including collection hubs, SCOM integration, and a customer self-service patching portal — the security monitoring and operational resilience CAF objectives C and D examine.
- On an OFFICIAL-grade government hosting and reseller platform, delivered privileged access management across a highly segmented network, addressing the identity and access control expectations in CAF objective B.
- On a nationally significant public-sector programme, delivered a global front door with web application firewall, full segmentation across development, staging, and production, disaster recovery and business continuity across production workloads, and ITHC scoping with the customer’s testing supplier.
Who this is for.
Government departments and arm’s-length bodies facing GovAssure; NHS trusts, integrated care boards, and commissioning support units facing the CAF-aligned DSPT; operators of essential services in water, energy, and transport; and managed service providers and designated critical suppliers newly brought into scope. It connects with security and compliance architecture, zero trust perimeter design, privileged access management, and SRE and observability.