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How Cytix Helps You Align with the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF)

The NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) provides a structured approach for assessing and improving cyber resilience across essential services and critical systems. It helps organisations demonstrate effective governance, risk management, and operational security practices, but translating CAF principles into day-to-day software development can be challenging.

8 min

Thomas Ballin

Playbook

How Cytix Helps You Align with the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF)

The NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) provides a structured approach for assessing and improving cyber resilience across essential services and critical systems. It helps organisations demonstrate effective governance, risk management, and operational security practices, but translating CAF principles into day-to-day software development can be challenging.

8 min

Thomas Ballin

Playbook

How Cytix Helps You Align with the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF)

The NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) provides a structured approach for assessing and improving cyber resilience across essential services and critical systems. It helps organisations demonstrate effective governance, risk management, and operational security practices, but translating CAF principles into day-to-day software development can be challenging.

8 min

Thomas Ballin

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Embedding CAF Principles Into Your Development Lifecycle

Cytix bridges that gap by embedding continuous security assurance directly into your software delivery lifecycle. By automatically identifying risky changes within development workflows, generating threat models, and maintaining a full audit trail of risk decisions, Cytix helps organisations evidence CAF compliance at a granular level, all while keeping development teams focused on delivery.

Cyber Assessment Framework Coverage & Cytix Capabilities

Below, you can see how Cytix maps to the key clauses of the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF), helping you operationalize and demonstrate compliance for critical cyber resilience requirements.

Cyber Assessment Framework Coverage Matrix: How Cytix Maps to Critical CAF Clauses and Requirements

Clause

Requirement

Coverage

How Cytix Maps

A2

The organisation takes appropriate steps to identify, assess and understand security risks to network and information systems supporting the operation of essential functions. This includes an overall organisational approach to risk management.

Partial

We generate threat models to help identify and document risk for every software change.

B1

The organisation defines, implements, communicates and enforces appropriate policies, processes and procedures that direct its overall approach to securing systems and data that support operation of essential functions.

Partial

We create a fully auditable trail of security requirements, risks, and decisions.

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Eagle House, 64 Cross Street, Manchester, M2 4JQ, United Kingdom

© 2026 Cytix Ltd. All rights reserved.

Eagle House, 64 Cross Street, Manchester, M2 4JQ, United Kingdom

© 2026 Cytix Ltd. All rights reserved.