Cyber Assessment Framework
Blog|by Leanne Bevan|30 May 2025
What is the Cyber Assessment framework?
The Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF), developed by the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), is a structured approach designed to help you assess and improve your cyber resilience, particularly if you're responsible for critical national infrastructure and essential services. It supports both self-assessment and external evaluation, focusing on the protection of essential functions from cyber threats.
The framework's objectives and principles
CAF is structured around 14 principles grouped under four key objectives.
Managing security risk
- Governance
- Risk management
- Asset management
- Supply chain
Protecting against cyber attacks
- Service protection policies and procedures
- Identity and access control
- Data security
- System security
- Resilient networks and systems
- Staff awareness and training
Detecting cyber security events
- Security monitoring
- Anomaly detection
Minimising the Impact of Cyber Security Incidents
- Response and recovery planning
- Lessons learned
Get secure and comply with the CAF framework
If you don't have all the solutions you need to meet the requirements of the Cyber Assessment Framework, or perhaps want to look at alternative options, we're here to help.
We have solutions that cross the breadth of this framework. From awareness training, monitoring, data and network security, to identity and access control, and anomaly detection. We even offer other services such as pen testing to help you identify the gaps in your security to remediate, and Azure monitoring.
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Leanne Bevan
Vendor Marketing Manager at Grey Matter
Leanne has been part of our team for over a decade, and has worked as a vendor marketing manager for a number of our key vendors. Now with a keen focus on cyber security as well as developer technologies, Leanne continues to manage marketing across several vendors, including Embarcadero, Acronis, ESET, and more.
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