Guide

How to share Cyber Essentials evidence with an assessor

Share Cyber Essentials evidence cleanly with your assessor — without losing version control or exposing drafts.

4 min readLast updated 5 June 2026

Sharing evidence cleanly saves you and your assessor time. A scoped, read-only view is the easiest route — far better than emailed zips.

Approve evidence in your workspace

Only approved items should reach the assessor. Drafts stay private.

Invite the assessor as read-only

Send a scoped invite, not a full collaborator account.

Let the assessor review in place

No downloads-by-email cycle. The assessor reads approved items in the portal.

Use threaded comments per item

Questions and answers live on the evidence they reference, not in scattered emails.

Revoke access at the end

Once assessment is complete, revoke the assessor's access. Keep the audit trail.

Practical examples

Approve and tag

Mark an MFA export as approved and tag it to ‘User access control’.

Assessor invite

Email invite that grants read-only access to approved evidence only.

Comment thread

Assessor asks a clarifying question on the patch report; you reply on the item.

Common mistakes

  • Sharing a whole cloud drive

    Broad share links expose drafts and unrelated material.

  • Emailing zip files

    Zips are stale the moment they're sent and break version control.

  • Forgetting to revoke

    Leave access in place and you lose visibility of who saw what.

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