IT Security Success for VEGA
24 May 2006 – Independent programme and system assurance
company, VEGA Group PLC, has won two separate framework contracts
to provide IT security services to the UK's Identity and Passport
Service (IaPS) and Police Information Technology Organisation
(PITO).
VEGA won a place on the IaPS framework agreement in a
competitive tender against a number of IT security services
organisations listed within the Communications Electronics Security
Group. The contract covers a three-year period and focuses on the
following three specific work areas:
- CRAMM – Risk Analysis and Management
- Accreditation Document Sets
- IT Health Checks – including Technical Assurance and
Penetration Testing
The security framework covers the security requirements across
all nine of the Service's major sites.
The IT security framework with PITO also runs for three years
and involves VEGA providing security health check services for
police forces and other crime-related organisations.
The integrity of the information held by the police force is of
paramount importance. Each one in England and Wales is required to
have at least one annual health check of its IT and other related
security support services.
Each company on the framework qualified against the same price
and quality assurances, so the framework operates a rota system
which allows for each supplier to have an equal share of the
required IT security tasks.
VEGA's Chief Operating Officer, Alan Gaby, commented: "I am very
happy to have won these framework contracts. The assurance of
personal, organisational and national information is a key issue
for modern society. I am therefore delighted that these two
important government organisations have chosen VEGA's experienced
security practice to help support their IT security needs."