CHESS ICT LIMITED

Forescout Cyber Assurance

With Network Security Cyber Assurance organizations can fortify their cyber defense from multiple angles. This offering allows IT and security operations leaders to achieve comprehensive network visibility, enforce robust access controls, swiftly respond to incidents, seamlessly integrate within their IT and cybersecurity ecosystem, effectively manage risk, and ensure compliance.

Features

• IT, IoT, IoMT and OT asset discovery and classification
• Cyber attack surface management with risk scoring and compliance status
• Reporting

Benefits

• attack surface: 100% visibility
• Risk score: Prioritise investigation effort
• 90-day risk timeline: Perform security forensics
• Threat detection: discover high fidelity true threat
• AI assist: Generative AI to increase investigation efficiency

£37,227 a unit

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

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Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

153819879148934

Contact

Joanne Austin - Commercial Bid Lead
0800 688 8858
bids@ChessICT.co.uk

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: Yes, but can also be used as a standalone service
• What software services is the service an extension to: Extension to EyeSight or standalone depending on the feature
• Cloud deployment model: Private cloud
• Service constraints: No
• System requirements: Requires an internet browser to access the service

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: Within 1 hour (severity 1)
• 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: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: No
• Onsite support: Onsite support
• Support levels: Forescout offers two levels of technical support, Basic and Advanced support as described in the Maintenance and Support policy. https://www.forescout.com/resources/support-services-maintenance-and-support-policy/
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: We offer Professional Services, online training, user documentation
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats: HTML
• End-of-contract data extraction: At the end of contract customer export the logs over syslogs
• End-of-contract process: Customer will be asked to renew or will loose access at the end of contract date.

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Internet Explorer 11
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
• Application to install: No
• Designed for use on mobile devices: No
• Service interface: Yes
• User support accessibility: WCAG 2.1 AAA
• Description of service interface: SaaS based solution
• Accessibility standards: WCAG 2.1 AAA
• Accessibility testing: N/A
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: For EyeSight: Control of the service is not possible through the API however data about endpoints can be fed into and retrieved from the platform. Access to the API requires the purchase of the eyeExtend license. ; For EyeInspect: We provide a full REST API to access asset inventory, alerts, vulnerabilities, links, changes, system status and more.; The API is documented here; https://docs.forescout.com/bundle/eyeinspect-5-2-0-api-guide/resource/eyeinspect-5-2-0-api-guide.pdf
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• API sandbox or test environment: No
• Customisation available: No

Scaling

• Independence of resources: Forescout have a dedicated VM for the customer

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: No

Resellers

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

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: Up to Security Clearance (SC)

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations: Other locations
• User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Datacentre security standards: Managed by a third party
• Penetration testing frequency: At least once a year
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest: Encryption of all physical media
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Data sanitisation type: Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
• Equipment disposal approach: A third-party destruction service

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: CSV button in the interface or via syslog or via API
• Data export formats: CSV
• Data import formats: Other
• Other data import formats: N/A

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: 9.99% monthly availability. if not achieve Forescout will provide service credit depending on the monthly availability percentage. Details: https://docs.forescout.com/bundle/forescout-service-level-agreements/page/forescout-cloud-services-service-level-agreement-v1-1.html
• Approach to resilience: Available on request
• Outage reporting: Customers are notified via email

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • Username or password
  • Other
• Other user authentication: Password, certificate, or certificate on smartcard.
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Role based access control
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Management access authentication: 2-factor authentication

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: User-defined
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: User-defined
• How long system logs are stored for: User-defined

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: BSI
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 16/05/2023
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: N/A
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: Yes
• Who accredited the PCI DSS certification: Barclays
• PCI DSS accreditation date: 25/05/2023
• What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover: N/A
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Other security certifications: No

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards: ISO/IEC 27001
• Information security policies and processes: CIP-004, NIST SP 800-53 AT-3

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Configuration and change management approach: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Vulnerability management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Vulnerability management approach: We use Threat Modelling, Software Code review, vulnerability scanning, Third Party PenTests and HackerOne bug bounty to validate our Software. ; Vulnerabilities are ranked by severity (CVSS 3.1) and tracked through remediation.; We investigate our security tickets to identify the types of issues (CWEs) to inform our Development Security Training practice, Threat Modeling and Program Increment planning.
• Protective monitoring type: Undisclosed
• Protective monitoring approach: Forescout has a Business Continuity Plan, Incident Response Plan, Disaster Recovery plans, policies, and procedures which are tested annually and attested for within our SOC2 Type 2.
• Incident management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Incident management approach: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v3.0)

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Covid-19 recovery
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Fighting climate change

  We have an environmental statement and are working to improve our ESG governance generally. We formulated a plan to become net zero by 2030 which is available on our website.; What we are doing to reduce our emissions ; -Our People – we launched a WIKI within Teams containing advice on how to minimise your environmental impact. ; -Our Suppliers – 95% of our environmental impact comes from suppliers. We have reviewed our supplier onboarding process to score their environmental impact and are in discussion with Key suppliers so we understand what they are doing to limit Carbon emissions and how we can work with them to make this happen.; -Our Customers – our sales efforts focus on transitioning customers to cloud services and low energy products such as FTTP. These are more efficient and will reduce emissions over time.; 95% of our emissions are from our supply chain/customer usage of our products and we are working on our supplier strategy to fully understand their plans and as well as proactively transitioning our customers onto more environmentally responsible products and services (e.g. Broadband -> FTTP) to help them hit their targets. ; 5%- us We have moved to 96% home working, reduced our office footprint from 6 to 1 and have seen a substantial reduction in our emissions and utilities usage (reported annually). This equates to over 350 people no longer commuting. ; Our People come together if they need to at head office or in a network of small hubs, for example all teams meet at least once per quarter and some choose to more frequently. ; This cuts carbon emissions significantly as ; -over 350 people no longer need to commute every day, ; -over 90% of internal, supplier and customer meetings take place over Teams ; -We reduced our office footprint from 6 to 1

  Covid-19 recovery

  Chess have in place a robust and tested Business Continuity Plan, recovery for pandemics would be included within this BCP.

  Tackling economic inequality

  Our UK sites sponsor twelve charities a year. One of the main philanthropic successes we have seen at Chess in recent years is the launch of our Engage platform. Successfully linking Culture and Charity by introducing a fun and quick way to provide companywide recognition and praise for all to see. All our people are encouraged to recognise when their colleagues have performed well by giving them ‘Praise’, The best thing about this – every time someone is praised, they get to donate £1 to one of the 12 Chess Charities. In 2023, we raised £9,000 through Praise recognition, which was part of the £45,000 total we donated.; When things happen in the world that we've not planned for, people will turn to their leaders to see how we will support them, recently, we sent medical and food supplies to the Romania – Ukraine border and donated to the Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal.; Recent Regional and National Charity initiatives ; Bare Necessities; Bare Necessities is a toiletry bank based in South Manchester, founded by two friends, determined to do something to help local people have equal access to personal hygiene products. We have set up toiletry drop off points at each of the Chess hubs and will regularly be delivering these to be put into hygiene kits.; ; Mission Christmas Toys for Kids Appeal; Our people can gift £5 per month to go towards the Mission Christmas Toy Appeal that runs across the UK. ; ; Wrap Up Campaign; Wrap Up is a project run by various Rotary Clubs working in partnership across the UK to provide coats directly to people across the UK. Each Chess hub became a drop off point and our people donated over 50 of their old coats which were then circulated to the collection points across the UK.

  Equal opportunity

  Our People have told us that they want to work flexibly and so the ability to work from different locations utilising all of the new technology we have embraced during the pandemic has become our new normal in terms of our working practices. This opens up an exciting opportunity to widen our recruitment activities to include groups of people who previously were not open to us because of the geographic and physical barriers that working in a fixed location bring. Removing these barriers and proactively searching out new ways to attract and recruit people from all areas of society will enable us to grow a much more diverse workforce with all of the cultural, social and financial benefits that this brings.; In Chess, we have always considered that we drive a culture that promotes inclusion and diversity. We have always celebrated all our people's successes, but complacency is dangerous and there is always more we can do. We pay close attention to what other organisations are doing, we listen to our people, and our goal is to drive hard in this area, providing the opportunity for all who wish to take it.; ; Economic – employment, training and work-experience opportunities; We support localisation in the delivery of services through:; ; a)Local employment; Chess can proactively look at ‘local’ employment, training and work-experience opportunities for individual where this is appropriate and deliverable. ; ; b) Apprenticeships; Graduate and Apprentice Schemes - We employ 5no apprentices across the business including IT and people support. ; ; c) Employability Training ; We offer young people employability training via interview practice, CV assistance and familiarisation with an office environment. We have previously offered work experience and apprenticeships to young people we have been introduced to via this scheme.

  Wellbeing

  Communication and collaboration are vital to maintaining energy and focus at Chess, especially with most employees choosing to work from home.; ; Staff are encouraged to meet with their teams at one of the local hubs in a network spread across the UK. And there are two annual conferences to celebrate success and bring people together.; ; All teams have daily Teams 'huddles' to set the focus for the day and share any issues, as well as monthly 121s. Employees get monthly updates from the Chairman and Board of Directors to keep them up to speed on business performance, with daily 'need to knows' posted on internal channels. Additionally, the chairman hosts monthly lunches, allowing employees to express any concerns directly.; Working together in a positive environment; Every day, we encourage, motivate, and support each other to maintain a friendly positive atmosphere where everyone feels valued and cared for. Chess have created a culture that is inclusive and diverse where everyone is encouraged to bring innovative new ideas to the table and work together to achieve our organisational goals. It’s a place where hard work and success is rewarded. All our people set Goals and Responsibilities tied to our Blueprint which are reviewed regularly throughout the year, as well as a Personal Development Plan outlining their short and long term career objectives – both within and outside of Chess.; ; • We are advocates of diversity and inclusion, and our culture is open to everyone.; • Looking after our employees - Future Fit wellbeing - Chess ; • Early career apprenticeship and graduate programmes - national-apprenticeship-week-at-chess; • Passionate about encouraging and supporting women in tech, with above average industry standards for women in tech and females in leadership roles - International Women’s Day - Chess; Flexible working options for every employee where possible

Pricing

• Price: £37,227 a unit
• Discount for educational organisations: No
• Free trial available: No

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  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 bids@ChessICT.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.