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“After recent incidents and the ever-increasing availability of government services as electronic transactions, UK public sector organisations are coming under far greater pressure to review and improve information security. This applies as much to security procedures and staff privacy assessments as it does to selecting the right tools for managing complex IT infrastructures and software applications.

“Civica provides a pragmatic model for organisations’ information security needs. This is built on strong relationships with leading manufacturers and our track record of engagements with enterprises and across the public sector. Because information security is an organisation-wide issue, our model supports and brings together people, processes and infrastructure. It can also be easily integrated with wider data storage, infrastructure and software licensing needs for operational and cost benefits.”
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Civica launches integrated information security services for public sector and enterprise needs

Civica launches integrated information security services for public sector and enterprise needs
Comprehensive risk management and security solutions portfolio
combines e-security and market sector expertise

Following recent information security issues and concerns, Civica has launched an information security service for public sector organisations and enterprises.

21 January 2008, London … Following recent information security issues and concerns, Civica - one of the UK’s leading providers of consulting, software and services for the public sector – has launched an information security service for public sector organisations and enterprises.

Civica’s new service portfolio, which encompasses BS7799 risk management, security auditing and process consulting, and end-to-end information security software, will help organisations to build and operate more effective information security policies. It will also assist government offices in planning for new requirements, such as ‘spot checks’ by the Information Commissioner’s Office, which were authorised recently by the Prime Minister.¹

Delivered through Civica Services, the Civica group’s infrastructure services division, the portfolio comprises solutions for e-security profiling, remote access management, endpoint protection, perimeter protection and business continuity, together with consultancy and training.

The new service is provided either as a ‘stand alone’ service or integrated with the company’s wider storage, infrastructure and software asset management capabilities. This flexibility can help organisations examine how to operate more streamlined and less expensive data management and security infrastructures. This in turn will contribute to improving public bodies’ data centre management, cost of ownership and ‘carbon footprint’ management challenges.

At departmental level, the new security portfolio will enable public sector organisations to secure information – including increasing levels of transactional data, personal details and images (estimated to be growing at 40 per cent or more each year) - as public services continue to be opened up to citizens through integrated contact channels such as internet and email.

To build a complete data security delivery model, with consultants providing project consultancy, proof of concept, systems integration and programme evaluation, Civica brings to bear its long standing vendor partnerships and its unique 20-year track record in public and private sector work on software licensing – the Civica group already supplies 90 per cent of UK local authorities and police forces.

Notes to Editors
1. Gordon Brown announced inspection powers for Information Commissioner’s Office on November 22, 2007. www.itweek.co.uk/articles/print/2204211

About Civica plc
Civica plc (www.civica.co.uk) is a market leader in software-based solutions that help public sector organisations to improve service delivery to their communities, with particular expertise in local government, housing, law enforcement, education and healthcare. Blending consulting, software and managed services, the group supplies more than 1,500 customers in the UK, Australia, Singapore and the USA, including approximately 89 per cent of the UK’s local authorities.

 

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