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Khipu Networks Limited

Fastvue: Prevent & Safeguarding URL Monitoring and Reporting

Fastvue Reporter ingests firewall logs and analyses them with the primary focus on organisations meeting their Prevent and Safeguarding duties. The reporter creates real-time alerts when it detects potential vulnerable internet activity. Safeguarding officers are empowered to use the simple interface to investigate and create report as needed or scheduled.

Features

  • Supported firewalls: PaloAlto, Sophos, Fortinet, SonicWall, Cisco Firepower, Barracuda, Watchguard
  • Create clear, comprehensive internet usage reports and alerts
  • Identify attempts to access self-harm, extremist, or inappropriate content
  • Schedule automated reports to be emailed to named users
  • Identify bandwidth-hogging users, applications, and sites in real time
  • Receive alerts when security issues occur
  • Identify targeted machines

Benefits

  • Provides the insight needed to safeguard users
  • Creates a safer online environment — for everyone
  • Segment and schedule reports for any user group
  • Keyword matching on YouTube to discover inappropriate videos
  • Create tailored guidelines to assess your users’ browsing
  • Discover risky online behaviour
  • Identify lost productivity
  • Flags suspicious activity related to e.g. suicide and self-harm
  • Spot activity related to extremism, radicalization, racism, drugs, pornography
  • Safeguarding Staff can access without direct access to a Firewall

Pricing

£1,000.00 a licence

  • Education pricing available

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

2 1 1 6 3 6 9 3 3 1 3 8 8 9 5

Contact

Khipu Networks Limited Sales Team
Telephone: 0345 272 0900
Email: Sales-UK@khipu-networks.com

Service scope

Service constraints
Connectivity with and Syslog configured on the supported Firewall Platform
System requirements
  • Below 500 Users 4 CPUs/Cores, 6 GB RAM
  • 500 – 1000 Users 4 CPUs/Cores, 8 GB RAM
  • 1000 – 3000 Users 8 CPUs/Cores, 12 GB RAM
  • 3000 – 5000 Users 8 CPUs/Cores, 16 GB RAM
  • 5000+ Users 16 CPUs/Cores, 24 GB RAM

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
KHIPU delivers support packages with associated SLAs. The response time SLA is linked to the priority of the incident. Response times can vary from 30 minutes (Priority 1) to 4 hours (Priority 4), depending upon the severity of the support call logged. We can also offer bespoke support packages that allow the initial response time to be tailored to the environment if required. The initial response time does not differ based upon the time of day nor day of the week.
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
Yes
Online ticketing support accessibility
WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
24 hours, 7 days a week
Web chat support
No
Onsite support
Yes, at extra cost
Support levels
KHIPU’s ethos is to provide outstanding technical and after sales support, both during and after a project implementation. To evidence this, we have a number of exceptional customer references should customers wish to speak with them. For all supplied solutions we provide maintenance and support services, with all of the proposed equipment being supported and maintained by KHIPU to the required level based upon the customers’ cover. The following is included within our available support/maintenance services:

• Maintain Services is KHIPU's 'break fix' level of support.
• Monitor Services offer “Pro-Active” monitoring and alerting via KHIPU's “KARMA” service.
• Fully Managed Service, KHIPU assumes full responsibility for the running of your devices.
• Co-Managed Service, KHIPU assists with the running of your devices.
• KHIPU SOC Service offers a complete, detection and response service protecting your critical infrastructure from cyber-attacks.

• All services are available 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday, or 24x7x365(366)
• Telephone, Email, Secure Portal and Remote Access Support

KHIPU would also assign a Technical Account Manager to every customer, who would be responsible for ensuring that SLA's are met in the event that customers call upon the agreed support service.
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
For the delivery of the service, KHIPU follows our ‘Project Process’ which has the following primary stages:

• Stage 1 – Service scope
• Stage 2 – Assessment
• Stage 3 – Report correlation.

This process is KHIPU’s way of providing an effective service to implement your solution efficiently and to a high standard, in accordance with our ISO accreditations. Initially, we will set up a call to discuss the implementation of your service, what will take place, and any pre-requisites that need to be met. This will also provide end-users with the opportunity to speak to one of our fully qualified engineers who will discuss all aspects of the of the service and answer any questions that they may have. A set of project and technical documentation is then created, based upon the discussion. It is then circulated with the customer for their feedback and signature. From this point there is an agreed change control process for anything necessary which is under the control of both KHIPU and the customer.
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
  • HTML
  • PDF
End-of-contract data extraction
The customer data is stored on the customer's public cloud instance or on-premise and as such there is no requirement to extract the data at the end of the contract term.
End-of-contract process
A Fastvue subscription includes access to the software during the term of the subscription, access to full support, rights to download all updates and upgrades, and any training that may be required. On expiry, if the customer does not uninstall the software, they will still be able to access it but will not be able to run reports or send alerts.

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Using the web interface
Fastvue customers create an account on www.fastvue.co.uk. This gives them access to the software, any updates / new versions, and install instructions. Once the software has been downloaded, it can be installed in the customer's public cloud instance or in customer's data centre.
Web interface accessibility standard
None or don’t know
How the web interface is accessible
N/A
Web interface accessibility testing
N/A
API
No
Command line interface
No

Scaling

Scaling available
Yes
Scaling type
Manual
Independence of resources
Each user manages their Fastvue instance separately.
Usage notifications
Yes
Usage reporting
Email

Analytics

Infrastructure or application metrics
Yes
Metrics types
Other
Other metrics
  • Bandwidth Usage
  • User Detailed Internet Activity
  • Security Issues
  • Prevent URL Categeories
Reporting types
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports

Resellers

Supplier type
Reseller providing extra support
Organisation whose services are being resold
Fastvue

Staff security

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

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
Yes
Data storage and processing locations
United Kingdom
User control over data storage and processing locations
Yes
Datacentre security standards
Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
Penetration testing frequency
Never
Protecting data at rest
Other
Other data at rest protection approach
Fastvue does not hold any customer data
Data sanitisation process
No
Equipment disposal approach
Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Backup and recovery

Backup and recovery
No

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
Other
Other protection between networks
There is no link between the customer's network and our network; the software is deployed in the customer's instance of the public cloud or in customer's data centre.
Data protection within supplier network
Other
Other protection within supplier network
Fastvue does not hold any customer data.

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
N/A - Fastvue is hosted in customer's instance of a public cloud or on-premise. It is managed via a web interface by each customer for their own individual install.
Approach to resilience
N/A - Fastvue is hosted in customer's instance of a public cloud or on-premise. It is managed via a web interface by each customer for their own individual install.
Outage reporting
N/A - Fastvue is hosted in customer's instance of a public cloud or on-premise. It is managed via a web interface by each customer for their own individual install.

Identity and authentication

User authentication
  • Username or password
  • Other
Other user authentication
Access to the service can further be restricted by restricting access via SSL VPN.
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
Different levels of access are achieved with RBAC.
Access restriction testing frequency
Never
Management access authentication
Username or password
Devices users manage the service through
Dedicated device on a segregated network (providers own provision)

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information
No audit information available
Access to supplier activity audit information
No audit information available
How long system logs are stored for
User-defined

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
Yes
Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
Original Approval: 6th May 2010, Current Expiry: 5th May 2025
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
All areas of KHIPU's business is covered under ISO27001 certification.
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
Yes
Cyber essentials plus
No
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
KHIPU adhere to ISO policies and procedures. We are certified to ISO9001 (Quality Management), ISO27001 (Information Security Management), ISO14001 (Environmental Management) and ISO45001 (Occupational health and safety). Any potential breach or risk of security or process is highlighted to senior management including the board of directors immediately.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach
All changes to the configuration of the service are managed through an ITIL based Change Control Process. This looks at technical suitability, security risks and impact to service; the output from which is clearly communicated to the customer where the ultimate decision will be made to proceed or not. This takes into account any commercial considerations necessary and provides an audit trail, ensuring that all aspects of the change are considered.
Vulnerability management type
Supplier-defined controls
Vulnerability management approach
We work closely with the manufacturers of the deployed services to ensure that any reported/disclosed vulnerabilities are patched during the next maintenance window. Should a major flaw occur, an emergency change process would be invoked to patch the service within 48 hours. In the event that multiple vulnerabilities become apparent, they will be addressed in severity order (highest first), until all are mitigated.
Protective monitoring type
Supplier-defined controls
Protective monitoring approach
Potential compromises are detected via various means including monitoring tools, manual check, service degradation, reported issues and regular vulnerability assessments. In the event of a suspected compromise, they are acted upon with high priority until they are proven to be benign or corrective action is needed to be taken to mitigate the problem. Immediate responses are provided if an issue appears to be critical within the end users’ environment. These procedures are in line with our ISO27001 processes.
Incident management type
Supplier-defined controls
Incident management approach
As part of our support/managed service procedure, the customer is provided with full details of how to log a support call, including all logging methods and the required information for the servicedesk. Once the call has been logged, it is then managed by the team under the servicedesk based on severity (major issue = service affecting, minor issue = query). All service affecting calls are escalated accordingly to the 2nd/3rd line teams including the assigned account and technical manager. Escalations procedures are provided as part of the onboarding process.

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Supplier-defined process

Separation between users

Virtualisation technology used to keep applications and users sharing the same infrastructure apart
No

Energy efficiency

Energy-efficient datacentres
Yes
Description of energy efficient datacentres
KHIPU utilises the ARK Cody Park Data Centre.

ARK is part of the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact (CNDCP) Refer: https://arkdatacentres.co.uk/sustainability/

Power: All Ark facilities are powered by 100% renewable energy. Renewable energy has been purchased for up to 3 years ahead for their facilities.

Standby Power: By the end of 2023 Ark had replaced the diesel in their standby generators with Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO).

Cooling: The facility utilises innovative direct air evaporative cooling capability that dramatically lowers energy consumption and can provide compressor free cooling for 99% of the year. This ensures that data centre cooling adapts to IT load in real time to reduce wasted energy and deliver the appropriate amount of cooling to each rack.

Reduced Water Consumption: Ark has developed a ‘water buffering and saving mode’ for the cooling equipment which has reduced original peak water usage by 85%. Employing this approach with established rainwater harvesting designs it is possible for the Ark data centre evaporative cooling systems to operate solely on harvested rainwater.

IT Infrastructure: Servers are virtualised wherever possible to reduce the amount of hardware required. End-of-life equipment is decommissioned, removed, and recycled.

Social Value

Social Value

Social Value

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

Fighting climate change

KHIPU is committed to monitoring and reducing our environmental footprint. We are an ISO14001 Environmental Management certified company and complete an internal audit annually which provide updated targets for our company and supply chain to aim for.

We update our initiatives on our website: https://www.khipu-networks.com/khipu-is-green/.

• Employees and our supply chain are made aware / reminded of their environmental impact.
• We regularly review our products, services, and suppliers to ensure we are using the most suitable environmentally friendly options.

KHIPU and our supply chains are committed to minimising impact to the environment from our solutions by reusing, recycling, and adopting processes that conserve raw material, energy, and water.

The company is part of a movement called “techies go green” (https://www.techiesgogreen.com), aimed at increasing awareness and we are committed to decarbonising our businesses and making them green and verifiably sustainable.

Where possible, we work with customers remotely to reduce travel costs and for each day an engineer installs / supports a customer remotely we plant 10 trees. Tracking of our progress is available here: (https://moretrees.eco/forest/khipu/).

Covid-19 recovery

Our plans and processes provide mitigation against a wide range of potential incidents including the unforeseen events mentioned.

The procedures have been regularly tested both theoretically and in real events. In 2017 we activated the plans as part of an office relocation, we had no loss of services or unexpected downtime.

On the 9th March 2020, we activated our Pandemic Policy which was created during the original SARS threat. This was activated across our UK and South Africa offices in advance of the UK and SA Government lockdown. We successfully had 98% of staff working from home, 2% of staff worked in our UK office.

The business managed to offer and operate the majority of our services remotely. We continued to provide on-site resources to customers running critical life supporting systems (i.e. Healthcare / Social Services).

Since the removal of lockdown restrictions, we have moved to a hybrid operation where staff aim for a minimum of 3 days in the office, 2 working remotely. KHIPU invested in a new HQ building during 2021-2022 and modelled our offices to support the most flexible ways of working.

Tackling economic inequality

As a business we understand that we can make a difference in tackling economic inequality, with KHIPU being fortunate to operate in the Technical Business Sector which is a robust market. This allows the company to invest into our workforce, both in terms of relatively high salaries and also support services (pension contributions, healthcare, dental care, welfare support, regular health checks, training, team building, career options).

We offer flexitime to the workforce, offer hybrid working, provide a very good maternity / paternity scheme, invest in apprentices, and also graduates and have workforce age from ~19 – 70 years of age. Over 40% of our senior staff identify as female and we support all of our staff in any way we can.

Outside of our business, KHIPU invests into charitable causes, we have invested in building a computer laboratory in a township school in South Africa. We invest in youth sports and various health related charities.

Equal opportunity

KHIPU has a strong ethos on diversity and inclusion with our main objective being that our company and staff understands and promotes equality, diversity, and inclusivity internally and externally with suppliers and customers.

We have not set any specific target; however, we have found that our organisation has organically grown in a manner fully supportive of our main objective for equality, diversity, and inclusivity.

This organically grown culture exists across our UK and South Africa based offices, we also ask our supply chain to confirm their commitment to supporting our own objective in this manner.

Wellbeing

KHIPU has a very active “People Operations” department with representatives across our main offices in the UK and South Africa. They provide a wide range of help and support to all staff, including their families as appropriate. Our team have trained first aiders and also have received mental health awareness training. All staff have access to our internal support team and can also be referred to 3rd party experts (via our company-wide healthcare scheme). The company invests in an annual health check (optional but recommended for all staff) by a 3rd party company, this also offers advice on mental health, fitness, diet etc.

The company has invested in excellent office facilities, both in terms of general office location and facilities within our offices. This allows staff multiple options for stress reduction, teamwork or relaxation as required. We suggest that all staff walk around and do not sit too long at their desks, offer stand-up desk workstations and we try to cater for any staff members working preferences.

Pricing

Price
£1,000.00 a licence
Discount for educational organisations
Yes
Free trial available
No

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 Sales-UK@khipu-networks.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.