For cleaning businesses
Your clients trust you with their keys. Protect their codes too.
Cleaning businesses hold door codes, alarm codes and client addresses, and win work through commercial contracts that increasingly ask for Cyber Essentials. Brightlock Cyber gets you ready in plain English.
The risks we see most in cleaning businesses
Client codes in the wrong hands
Door, alarm and key-safe codes kept in texts, notes or shared spreadsheets are an easy target if a phone is lost or an account is hacked.
Contracts that ask for Cyber Essentials
Facilities managers, offices and public sector buyers often ask cleaning contractors to show basic cyber security before they sign.
Fake invoices and bank changes
Criminals pose as suppliers or clients to redirect payments. Small teams without a checking routine are hit hardest.
Checks written for cleaning businesses
Every readiness report covers the five Cyber Essentials controls and UK GDPR. Choose "Cleaning" and we add these extra checks for your industry:
- 1Are client door codes, alarm codes and key-safe codes kept in a secure app, not in texts or shared notes?
- 2Do cleaners only see the client addresses and codes for jobs they're booked on?
- 3Do you check by phone before changing a client's or supplier's bank details?
Who's asking for Cyber Essentials?
- Commercial cleaning contracts and facilities management tenders
- Public sector and NHS supplier forms
- Insurers asking about how you protect client data
What you get from Brightlock Cyber
- A free 2-minute health check
- A Brightlock Cyber Score out of 1,000, like a credit score for your cyber security
- Step-by-step fixes for the devices and apps you use
- Policies and tender answers written for your business
- Help from us or a partner if you'd rather not do it alone
Read the guide: Why cleaning contracts ask for Cyber Essentials
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