Value we bring to Governments and Regulators
CREST is actively engaged by governments and regulators across the world to help drive capability, capacity and consistency in their technical cyber security markets. Our goals include:
- Raising the level of capability of companies delivering services in the country
- Building and developing local talent pools
- Providing both import and export opportunities
- Providing a framework for buyers to make informed buying decisions against
- Defining supplier pools for government and regulators to engage with and develop public/private partnerships
- Delivering greater consistency for cross border services
- Providing a conduit to deliver local initiatives across the technical cyber security market
- Building a framework for organizations to differentiate their specific areas of specialty
- Benchmarking against industry recognized international technical assurance capabilities
- Providing supply chain assurance
- Helping to protect the Critical National Infrastructure
CREST has worked with regulators to deliver sector aligned frameworks targeting Financial Services, Telecommunications and Critical National Infrastructure sectors. In addition, CREST has worked with governments to implement cross-sector initiatives focused on developing standards across a whole country or region.
The Schemes
CESG (Certified Professional Scheme (CCP))