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GDAK CYBER SOLUTION LTD

Bespoke Cyber and Crisis Exercise

Practice response actions and upskill your people in a risk-free situation, building confidence, proficiency, and collaboration across your organisation to enable you to respond to crisis situations. Our bespoke cyber exercising service offers a highly versatile platform which allows us to customise an entire exercise to suit your unique needs.

Features

  • Created and delivered by exercising and cyber operational experts
  • Identify gaps in skills, processes and technological controls
  • Discovery workshop through to large scale live rehearsal exercises
  • Iterative scoping process to ensure that requirements are relevant
  • Unique and exacting scenario to meet exercising requirements and objectives
  • Virtual, on premise or multi geographical delivery options
  • Incorporate client organisational structures, policies and procedures within the exercise
  • Exercise delivery mechanisms to suit organisational requirements
  • Bespoke exercise report detailing observations and recommendations
  • Bespoke after action review session with our exercising experts

Benefits

  • Expert experience aligned to support and benefit organisational objectives
  • Thoroughly validate plans unique to the client
  • Holistic approach to increasing and improving cyber resilience
  • Consolidates organisational knowledge and skill
  • Develops confidence and educate workforce to prevent and respond
  • Increases awareness of cyber security and educate on organisational processes
  • Rehearse in a safe and immersive environment
  • Realistic scenarios aligned to NIS directive
  • Assurances across people, processes and technologies against bespoke problem sets
  • Creates team building opportunity

Pricing

£790 to £1,650 a unit a day

  • Education pricing available

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

2 0 8 3 6 7 4 3 4 1 4 6 5 7 1

Contact

GDAK CYBER SOLUTION LTD Kirsty Lee
Telephone: 01452929272
Email: admin@gdak.co.uk

Planning

Planning service
Yes
How the planning service works
GDAK assist in the planning and creation for a whole-organisation approach to increasing its cyber maturity. GDAK do this by:
Conducting an understand phase to baseline the organisation's current maturity and effectiveness for preventing and responding to incidents and crisis.
Identify skills, process and technology areas for improvement.
Schedule a campaign plan for improvement for the organisation to follow and budget against.
Utilise specialist consultancy, training and exercising to identify, educate, test and validate throughout the schedule.
Review effectiveness and advise on continual improvement strategies and schedules.
Planning service works with specific services
No

Training

Training service provided
Yes
How the training service works
GDAK provide tailored and bespoke training services to its clients, supporting education and awareness improvement across cyber security, information security and crisis management that is relevant to the client’s organisation. Integrating our skills, experience and delivery methods in our educational services, we focus on an intelligence led holistic approach to cyber security that supports embedding good practise within the workplace across people, process and technology. This training can support whole workforce cyber awareness guidance, resilience and effective response planning against adversarial actions. Training and awareness is most effective when ran continually within a campaign or programme. GDAK can put in place and execute education and awareness campaigns using a multitude of different delivery methods and internal marketing strategies.
Training is tied to specific services
No

Setup and migration

Setup or migration service available
No

Quality assurance and performance testing

Quality assurance and performance testing service
Yes
How the quality assurance and performance testing works
By setting defined requirements and objectives for an exercise, GDAK can identify and validate the performance and effectiveness of an organisation’s ability to utilise its people, processes, and technology collaboratively within a specified situation. Within the scoping sessions of exercise definition, these objectives can be set and measured against throughout the exercise and qualifying conditions. Unlike auditing, exercising allows organisations to evaluate their approach in
a safe and risk free environment against realistic and impactful situations.

Security testing

Security services
Yes
Security services type
  • Security strategy
  • Security risk management
  • Cyber security consultancy
  • Security incident management
  • Other
Other security services
  • Cyber & Crisis Exercise Creation
  • Cyber & Crisis Exercise Facilitation
  • Incident Response Planning

Ongoing support

Ongoing support service
No

Service scope

Service constraints
N/A

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
GDAK will aim to answer email queries within 24 hours between 0900 - 1700 Monday - Friday.

GDAK will endeavour to meet any reasonable requests from its buyers. If a differing support model is required by the buyer this can be agreed and set at the initial scoping session.
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
No
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support
No
Support levels
The support provided for this service is tailored around the buyer and will be set at the initial scoping session. This support will be included within the quoted price provided for the service.
A technical account manager can be provided if required.

Resellers

Supplier type
Not a reseller

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Conforms to BS7858:2019
Government security clearance
Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
No
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
Yes
Cyber essentials plus
No
Other security certifications
Yes
Any other security certifications
  • CISSP - Certified Information Systems Security Professional
  • CISM - Certified Information Security Manager
  • ISO27001 Lead Auditor
  • ISO27001 Lead Implementer
  • MoR - Management of Risk Practitioner
  • CISMP - Certificate in Information Security Management Principles

Social Value

Covid-19 recovery

Covid-19 recovery

As part of the recovery from COVID-19, GDAK have increased the flexibility and adapted ways of working for the delivery of this service. This service can be delivered remotely with the use of collaborative tools and processes to ensure full value and benefit to the buyer is still realised. GDAK can also deliver this service utilising a hybrid of physical and remote working.

To enable GDAK to support its workforce to deliver hybrid working, the workplace conditions within GDAK have also been improved to support social distancing if physical attendance at our sites is required by our staff or clients. The workforce have tools, equipment and process to support effective remote working to deliver on this service.

In line with GDAK's travel policy, where travel for this service is required sustainable travel solutions will be selected, always maintaining care of its workforce within COVID-19. As part of the workforce that will deliver on this service, GDAK has incentives to make more sustainable travel decisions for commuting such as cycle to work and electric car schemes.
Tackling economic inequality

Tackling economic inequality

GDAK support and promote in-work progression of all staff members. GDAK fund and encourage attaining certifications and qualifications relevant to the delivery of this service, this training is open to all of GDAK's workforce to develop new skills that attract higher pay and promotion within the company.

GDAK are also working towards introducing work experience and apprenticeship opportunities and to support grassroots growth of skills where appropriate.

GDAK have signed up to the Armed Force Covenant and are looking advertise future recruitment opportunities through this portal in addition to existing recruitment platforms. GDAK will continue to look towards ways to support and open up recruitment opportunities where applicable.
Equal opportunity

Equal opportunity

Where existing and additional recruitment is required to deliver on this service, GDAK are committed to supporting and increasing representation of a diverse workforce. As part of GDAK’s EDI strategy for the next 5 years, this includes making the working environment as accessible as possible to attract and retain staff. For our existing staff and recruiting new people into our organisation, making job opportunities inclusive, providing flexible working options, including hours, location and equipment where applicable. GDAK are committed to maintaining a comfortable workplace for all its workforce and addressing individuals needs to support them in the work place.
Wellbeing

Wellbeing

GDAK value the wellbeing of its staff and will continue to increase measures to support its workforce that are involved in delivering this service. This has included health insurance which provides benefits and incentives to promote physical wellbeing. In addition to this GDAK has invested in an employee assistance programme, a commitment to mental health at work to support mental health wellbeing of all its employees. GDAK continue to improve and look towards other initiatives to look after the wellbeing of its staff and the community, this year introducing and encouraging volunteer days for its staff to support local communities and initiatives.

Pricing

Price
£790 to £1,650 a unit a day
Discount for educational organisations
Yes

Service documents

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