NOC365 LTD

CheckPoint Harmony Email & Collaboration (Avanan)

Provides organisations with complete full-suite protection providing security admins with an easy-to-deploy and manage platform, block sophisticated social engineering attacks such as impersonation, zero-day phishing and Business Email Compromise. Using AI-trained engines. Securing inbound, outbound, and internal emails from phishing attacks inspects the communication’s metadata, attachments, links and language.

Features

• Detects malware, ransomware, east west attacks preventing malicious data loss
• Threat emulation evasion resistant CPU level sandbox
• Proactive Threat Extraction, cleans files and eliminates potential threats
• Threat Extraction eliminates unacceptable delays created by traditional threat emulation
• The industry’s only fully integrated document and image sanitization solution
• Protect sensitive data and maintain regulatory compliance with advanced DLP
• Prevent advanced account takeover attacks by augmenting authentication processes
• Uses patent-pending technology to prevent unauthorized users and compromised devices
• Harmony Email & Collaboration intercepts attackers using machine learning algorithms
• Inline API-based protection for inbound, outbound and internal email communication

Benefits

• Recognized by NSS Labs as ‘most effective in breach prevention'
• Complete Protection: Secure all lines of communication, email to collaboration
• Delivers safe file version to users in under two seconds
• Installs within minutes, starts catching malicious activity immediately
• Enables to enforce a data leakage policy based on requirements
• Detects sensitive data sharing via email and collaboration apps
• Proven to have Malware catch rate (99.91%) by NSS labs
• A single license for both email and productivity apps
• Secures major file-sharing services, Google Drive, OneDrive, Sharepoint, Dropbox
• Adds security layers to collaboration apps like Slack and Teams

• Education pricing available
• Free trial available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

656188782303361

Contact

Zeshan Tahir
0345 862 5586
sales@noc365.com

About your service

• Service categories:

  Systems Infrastructure Software

  Security

  • Endpoint security

  Network security

  • Active application security

  Data security

  • Information protection
• Multi cloud support: Yes

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: No
• Cloud deployment model: Public cloud
• Service constraints: None
• System requirements:
  • Supports Office 365, email, Sharepoint and OneDrive
  • Supports Google Workspace, Drive and Gmail
  • Supports Microsoft Teams
  • Supports Slack
  • Supports Box
  • Supports Dropbox
  • Supports Citrix Sharefile
  • Internet Connection to receive update definitions
  • Modern Web Browsers for management portal

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes
• Support response times: NOC365 UK Business Hours (9am - 5pm): Business Impact & Target Response Times: High - 1 Hour Medium - 2 Hours Low - 4 Hours None - 8 Hours NOC365 UK Non Business Hours (24/7): Business Impact & Target Response Times: High - 2 Hour Medium - 4 Hours Low - 8 Hours None - Next Business Day; ; 24/7 Support Available; ; Please note any Escalations to Cisco Support will fall under their SLA's
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: No
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: We provide support via email, telephone, on site and through our client portal. Where extra assistance is required that is not covered by the standard service, customers may purchase this at the rates shown in the SFIA rate card.
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: A simple and documented onboarding process is available. Individual Admin guides are available for each service giving details on getting started and configuration. In addition, Check Point offers a variety of other resources to educate users on their solutions such as online knowledge base, on-demand webinars, product videos and online training.; ; At additional cost, Professional Services experts can help with the planning, design, implementation, optimisation and service handover.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• End-of-contract data extraction: The service does not hold customer data only security configuration and log data to generate reports on the service functionality. Report information can be exported from the service web interface in order to archive the information.
• End-of-contract process: Unless the contract is renewed, functionality of the service (as described in the service features section) will cease on the day of expiration. The service will remain accessible. If the service is not renewed after 90 days of expiry the service will be terminated and all configuration deleted.
• Documentation accessibility standard: None or don’t know
• How the documentation is accessible: Our documentation is created using standard business tools (Microsoft Word/Office 365) which provide built-in accessibility features including: Structured headings and navigation, Alt text capability for images, Screen reader compatibility &Adjustable text size and contrast. ; ; While we have not formally assessed our documentation against specific accessibility standards such as WCAG 2.1, we are committed to meeting Level AA standards and will work with customers to provide documentation in accessible formats upon request. We will conduct an accessibility audit of our documentation within 3 months of contract award and implement necessary improvements.

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Opera
• Application to install: Yes
• Compatible operating systems:
  • MacOS
  • Windows
• Designed for use on mobile devices: Yes
• Differences between the mobile and desktop service: Same level of of service/ protection delivered for both mobile and desktop service.
• Service interface: Yes
• User support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Description of service interface: A web based service management portal for configuration of policies, day to day management, reporting and service usage.
• Accessibility standards: None or don’t know
• Description of accessibility: Our service is B2B and currently is not tested according to EN 301 549 accessibility standards.
• Accessibility testing: Our service is B2B and currently is not tested according to EN 301 549 accessibility standards.
• API: No
• Customisation available: Yes
• Description of customisation: Custom branding for digest emails and web banner.

Scaling

• Independence of resources: The service is built on public cloud infrastructure and scales automatically to accommodate new users. Each service account is provisioned as a separate tenancy with no interaction between tenancies.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: A range of flexible service metrics reports and dashboards are available from the management portal. These include Usage, User Activity, Allowed/ Blocked Emails, Policy Violations and DLP Violations.
• Reporting types:
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request
• Resource tagging: No
• FOCUS resource tagging: No

Resellers

• Supplier type: Reseller providing extra support
• Organisation whose services are being resold: Checkpoint

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations:
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • Other locations
• User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Datacentre security standards: Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 4.0)
• Penetration testing frequency: At least once a year
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Physical access control, complying with another standard
  • Encryption of all physical media
  • Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Equipment disposal approach: A third-party destruction service
• Data sanitisation type:
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed / Cryptographic Erasure
  • Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation / Secure Erase

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: Data export is performed by the customer via the Checkpoint web interface and options available within the management portal. Exporting of data is provided to the customer on a self service and as required basis. Data is not hidden, restricted or locked from end users that hold the correct service access privileges. Data, reports and logs will be available for export from the service in the formats and options supported by Checkpoint.
• Data export formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Other data export formats: PDF
• Data import formats: CSV

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks: TLS (version 1.2 or above)
• Data protection within supplier network: TLS (version 1.2 or above)

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: Availability and how it is calculated can be found in the Terms of Service – Cloud Services; End-user License Agreement. If the Monthly Service Availability or the Monthly Service Latency of the applicable Service during a calendar month is below the thresholds specified, You may request Check Point to extend Your current Service Term by additional days (“Service Credits”) at no extra charge according to the thresholds outlined in the agreement, subject to a maximum of 1 month of Service Credits per year of Service.
• Approach to resilience: Service Availability Controls; - Redundant systems and networks are deployed across servicing components.; - Load balancing ensures service availability in case of component failure.; - DRP: In case of data center failure, automatic failover is deployed to an alternate data center. (Note: Selecting a specific data center (for example, in EU) will cause the loss of data center failover functionality.); - The customer account: policy, users, logs and configurations are stored in redundant locations.; - CheckPoint enforces internal policies to control the retention of backup data. All data is backed up at each data center, on a rotating schedule of incremental and full backups.
• Outage reporting: The current and historical status of all Check Point services is available at https://status.checkpoint.com/. This page can be accessed directly and also from within the service portal. The page shows status, uptime, historical data, incidents and any relevant post-incident reports. From this page users can also subscribe to receive updates via any of the following methods: email, SMS text message, Slack message, RSS feed.

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: The service uses role-based administration to restrict access for authorised administrators. There are two types of admin roles, Global roles (which apply to the platform and to all the services in the Portal.) and Specific Service roles (which apply only to a specific service. The specific service roles are in addition to the global roles and do not override them.)
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least once a year
• Management access authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: Between 1 month and 6 months
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: Between 1 month and 6 months
• How long system logs are stored for: Between 1 month and 6 months

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: No
• Security governance approach: NOC365 Internal policies. All staff are security checked and security briefed. We are also certified for the Government Cyber Essentials PLUS accreditation.
• Information security policies and processes: Several internal security policies exist and are owned to protect customer data. These are tested regularly both formally and ad hoc. The policies are referenced and included in all employment contracts.
• Software Security Code of Practice: Yes

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Configuration and change management approach: SOC 2 Compliance.; ; Change requests are documented within the Change Management tool. The request is reviewed and approved by the Director of Operations. Emergency changes are performed and updated as part of hot fixes, which follow the same process as described above though the time frame may be shortened, and approvals may be provided after the change was already performed. Key Check Point personnel are notified of cases of test failures. Every test failure is documented in the change management tool and sent to the relevant personal in the Project manager.
• Vulnerability management type: Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Vulnerability management approach: Check Point performs monthly vulnerability scans and employs a centrally managed configuration management system, including infrastructure-as-code systems through which predefined configurations are enforced on its servers, as well as the desired patch levels of the various software components.; There is an internal procedure that defines the Patch management process and employees are trained in the corporate security policy.; In addition to the ongoing patch management processes, Check Point performs security monitoring from three main channels:; 1. Internal Security Research (vulnerability scanners, penetration test, company’s Incident response team and researchers, etc.); 2. External sources (threat intelligence, US-CERT, publications, vendors updates, etc.)
• Protective monitoring type: Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Protective monitoring approach: Check Point monitors the production environment with several tool such as grafana ,sumologic and implements a continuous monitoring strategy.; Check Point plans to mandate ongoing security control assessments to be completed in accordance with the FedRAMP continuous monitoring strategy and respond to security related vulnerabilities and issues generated by security assessment and monitoring activities by either fixing, remediating or implementing mitigating controls to reduce the overall risk.; The Check Point CISO team plans to use information obtained from continuous monitoring and ongoing assessments of Check Point for FedRAMP reports the security state of the system via vulnerability scan results
• Incident management type: Complies with a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v4.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Incident management approach: In the event of a security incident, Check Point’s security team is responsible for investigating and responding. Check Point has clear risk and damage assessment procedures to define the SLA required to solve any security incident. Check Point’s Information Security Manager, and other managers, will coordinate security response including containment, investigation, infrastructure securing, reporting, closure and follow up. Check Point will respond using the appropriate management and technical resources in order to promptly restore operations impacted by any incident. Check Point will adhere to applicable laws and industry standards in this process, including following any required notifications.
• Post-quantum cryptography secure: No

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Supplier-defined process

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: No

Pricing

• Discount for educational organisations: Yes
• Free trial available: Yes
• Description of free trial: A 14 day full feature trial is available. Further details available on request

Discount percentage by annual call-off contract value (excluding VAT)

• Less than £250,000: 5%
• Between £250,000 and £500,000: 10%
• Between £500,001 and £1,000,000: 12%
• Between £1,000,001 and £2,500,000: 15%
• Between £2,500,001 and £5,000,000: 18%
• Over £5,000,001: 20%

Non-mandatory Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: No
• ISO 28000:2022 certification: No
• ISO 9001 certification: No
• Quality management systems (QMS): Yes
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number: 65c0e184-d7d4-4e08-b249-9f0cd13bd72f
• Cyber essentials plus: No
• Cyber Essentials Alternative: In relation to the services you do not have a current and valid Cyber Essentials Plus certificate which has been awarded by one of the government approved Cyber Essentials accreditation bodies but you are working towards gaining it, and will be in a position to confirm that you have been awarded a current and valid Cyber Essentials Plus certificate by one of the government approved accreditation bodies within 12 months of the date of award.
• Other security certifications: No

Social value

• Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery:

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 1: Fair work: That offers fair wages and good working conditions. Help people get a job, stay in work, and progress in their careers, with good employment opportunities across the country. Notes: Where there is a large proportion of labour costs in the contract, commercial teams should consider MAC in Outcome 1 as a priority

    • New apprenticeships on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b
    • Providing opportunities for, and measuring and monitoring of, staff workforce conditions over time, including employee engagement, involvement in decision-making and satisfaction and adapting to any changes in the results, with clear processes for acting on issues identified
    • Plans to engage the contract workforce in deciding the most important workplace issues to address
    • Measures to support in-work progression to help people in the contract workforce, to move into higher paid work by developing new skills relevant to the contract
    • Support for the contract workforce by providing career advice, and providing opportunities for staff working on the contract with in-work progression career development into known skills shortages or high growth areas

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 2: Skills for growth: Supporting growth sectors and addressing skills gaps.

    • Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
    • Activities to support relevant sector related skills growth and sustainability in the contract workforce. Illustrative examples: careers talks, curriculum support, literacy support, safety talks and volunteering

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 3: Resilient, innovative and flexible supply chains: Support economic growth through enabling resilient businesses, opportunities for small businesses and voluntary, community and social enterprises

    • Understanding of the types of businesses in the market and the level of participation by new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals

  • Mission: Build an NHS fit for the future: That is there when people need it; with fewer lives lost to the biggest killers; in a fairer Britain, where everyone lives well for longer.

    Policy Outcome 8: Increasing productivity through physical and mental wellbeing: In the supply chain and communities in the relevant area.

    • Understanding of issues relating to health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health, in the contract workforce
    • Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices, development practices and retention policies that support-focused activities including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing which support people with a disability or health condition

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at sales@noc365.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.