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Ancoris Limited

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Prepayment Vouchers

Ancoris have developed an advance payment solution for GCP services that can be used to pay for future GCP consumption. Prepayment vouchers must be used within 36 months of signing the agreement.

Features

  • Prepayment vouchers to be used within 36 months

Benefits

  • Enables public sector customers to carry over unspent budget

Pricing

£100.00 a unit

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

3 4 3 1 8 9 6 0 1 3 2 1 3 2 5

Contact

Ancoris Limited Andre Azevedo | Jen Holroyd | Sean McAndrew
Telephone: +44 (0) 3452626747
Email: gcloud@ancoris.com

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
No
Cloud deployment model
Public cloud
Service constraints
No
System requirements
Existing or planned GCP consumption

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Yes, at extra cost
Support response times
P1: 30 mins, P2: 1 hour, P3-P4 tickets: 4 hours
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
Yes, at extra cost
Support levels
The Ancoris value-added support service ( Ancoris Google Cloud Platform Support service") can be seen in the "support" section.
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
Documentation, training, worked examples, best practices, and a free usage tier are available to assist users with getting started on Google Cloud Platform. Getting Started: https://cloud.google.com/getting-started/ Online Documentation: https://cloud.google.com/docs/ Training Sessions: https://cloud.google.com/training/ Google Developers Codelabs provide a guided, tutorial, hands-on coding experience: https://codelabs.developers.google.com/ Best practices: https://cloud.google.com/docs/enterprise/best-practices-for-enterprise-organizations Free tier available: https://cloud.google.com/free/
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
HTML
End-of-contract data extraction
Google's adoption of open APIs and open source technology allows users to move their data easily between cloud environments and prevent vendor lock-in (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/07/how-to-escape-lock-in-with-a-multi-cloud-stack26.html). We offer third party solutions for offline data import/export (https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/offline-media-import-export), and VM migration through recommended partners (https://cloud.google.com/migrate/). Further to this Articles 7 and 8 of Google Data Processing and Security Terms (https://cloud.google.com/terms/data-processing-terms) states that Google will provide the ability to correct, block, export and delete the Customer Data during the terms of the agreement. To the extent the customer does not have the ability migrate Customer Data to another system, Google will, at Customer’s reasonable expense, comply with any reasonable requests to assist in this.
End-of-contract process
On the expiry or termination of the Agreement, after a recovery period of up to 30 days following such expiry or termination, Google will delete the Customer-Deleted Data within a maximum period of 180 days, unless applicable legislation or legal process prevents it from doing so.

Using the service

Web browser interface
No
Application to install
No
Designed for use on mobile devices
No
Service interface
No
User support accessibility
None or don’t know
API
No
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
Purchase multiple vouchers as required

Scaling

Independence of resources
GCP runs on top of Google's infrastructure which serves billions of users across many products and services, the integrity and scale of those services ensures that user demand is handled appropriately. Customer data is logically segregated by domain to allow data to be produced for a single tenant only. The authorization to provision additional processing capacity is obtained through budget approvals and managed through internal SLAs as part of an effective resource economy. Further details - https://cloud.google.com/files/Google-Cloud-CSA-CAIQ-January2017-CSA-CAIQ-v3.0.1.pdf (Section AAC-03.1 and IVS-04.3).

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
The Account activity report page gives access to all data from the User account status, Admin status, and 2-Step Verification enrollment reports. It also shows details of Google Drive and Gmail usage. Further information can be found here: https://support.google.com/a/answer/4580176?hl=en
Reporting types
API access

Resellers

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

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Other security clearance
Government security clearance
Up to Security Clearance (SC)

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 3.0)
Penetration testing frequency
At least every 6 months
Penetration testing approach
Another external penetration testing organisation
Protecting data at rest
  • Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
  • Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
  • Physical access control, complying with another standard
  • Encryption of all physical media
  • Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
  • Other
Other data at rest protection approach
Google hard drives leverage technologies like FDE (full disk encryption) and drive locking. https://cloud.google.com/security/encryption-at-rest.
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Data sanitisation type
Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
Equipment disposal approach
Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
Most tools include a 'Save as' function that allows the export of data in industry standard formats. In addition, each user can download all the data they need from their Google Workspace account (including emails, calendars, contacts, documents, bookmarks, and more) to one place at the same time. Users can choose which Google products to archive. For example, they can choose to download their emails and documents, but not their bookmarks or photos. Only the user can access their archive and import it into a new service.
Data export formats
  • CSV
  • ODF
Data import formats
  • CSV
  • ODF

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
  • Private network or public sector network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
  • Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
  • Other
Other protection between networks
Securing data in transit is a high priority for Google. Google was the first major cloud provider to enable HTTPS/TLS by default. Google has also upgraded all our RSA certificates to 2048-bit keys, making our encryption in transit for Cloud Platform and all other Google services even stronger. Perfect forward secrecy (PFS) minimizes the impact of a compromised key, or a cryptographic breakthrough. It protects network data by using a short- term key that lasts only a couple of days and is only held in memory, rather than a key that’s used for years and kept on durable storage. https://cloud.google.com/security/
Data protection within supplier network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
  • Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
  • Other
Other protection within supplier network
Google encrypts Cloud Platform data as it moves between our data centres on our private network. Traffic on Google's networks is encrypted. https://cloud.google.com/security/

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
SLAs are service specific: https://cloud.google.com/terms/sla/
Approach to resilience
Google operates a global network of data centers to reduce risks from geographical disruptions. The link below includes the locations of our data centers: http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/ Google does not depend on failover to other providers and builds redundancy and failover into its own global infrastructure. Google performs annual testing of its business continuity plans to simulate disaster scenarios that simulate catastrophic events that may disrupt Google operations. https://cloud.google.com/files/Google-Cloud-CSA-CAIQ-January2017-CSA-CAIQ-v3.0.1.pdf (section BCR-01)
Outage reporting
Google maintains a dashboard with service availability and service issues here: https://status.cloud.google.com/

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Dedicated link (for example VPN)
  • Username or password
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM) lets administrators authorize who can take action on specific resources, giving you full control and visibility to manage cloud resources centrally. For established enterprises with complex organizational structures, hundreds of workgroups and potentially many more projects, Cloud IAM provides a unified view into security policy across your entire organization, with built-in auditing to ease compliance processes. IAM access policies are defined at the project level using granular controls of users and groups or using ACLs. https://cloud.google.com/iam/ https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/access/ For further information see; https://cloud.google.com/files/Google-Cloud-CSA-CAIQ-January2017-CSA-CAIQ-v3.0.1.pdf Section IAM-12
Access restriction testing frequency
At least once a year
Management access authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • 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
Less than 1 month
Access to supplier activity audit information
Users have access to real-time audit information
How long supplier audit data is stored for
At least 12 months
How long system logs are stored for
User-defined

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
Yes
Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
British Assessment Bureau
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
26/01/2024
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
Any service not listed on the ISO certificate is not covered.
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
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
Google Workspace and Google infrastructure is certified for a growing number of compliance standards and controls, and undergoes several independent third party audits to test for data safety, privacy, and security

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
In Google production environments, software updates are manually vetted to ensure the stability of the system. Changes are then tested and cautiously rolled out to systems. The details vary somewhat depending on the service being considered, but all development work is separated from the operation systems, testing occurs in a multi-staged fashion in both environments and in dedicated test settings. Google can share, under NDA, the SOC2 audit report (based on standards from the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board), which describes the change management process. Additionally, changes to code go through a process of code review involving additional engineer(s).
Vulnerability management type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Vulnerability management approach
Google administrates a vulnerability management process that actively scans for security threats using a combination of commercially available and purpose-built tools, intensive automated/manual penetration efforts, quality assurance processes, software security reviews and external audits. The vulnerability management team is responsible for tracking and following up on vulnerabilities. Once a vulnerability requiring remediation has been identified, it is logged, prioritized according to severity, and assigned an owner. The vulnerability management team tracks such issues and follows up frequently until they can verify that the issues have been remediated. Google also maintains relationships and interfaces with members of the security research community.
Protective monitoring type
Supplier-defined controls
Protective monitoring approach
Focused on information gathered from network traffic, employee actions on systems and outside knowledge of vulnerabilities. Traffic is inspected at many points for suspicious behaviour. Analysis is performed using open-source and commercial tools for traffic capture and parsing, supported by a correlation system built on top of Google technology. Analysis is supplemented by examining system logs for unusual behaviour, such as attempted access of customer data. Security engineers place standing alerts on public data repositories to look for security incidents that might affect company infrastructure. They actively review inbound security reports and monitor public mailing lists, blog posts, and wikis.
Incident management type
Supplier-defined controls
Incident management approach
If an incident occurs, the security team logs and prioritises it according to severity. Events directly impacting customers are assigned the highest priority. This process specifies courses of action, procedures for notification, escalation, mitigation, and documentation. Google’s incident management program is structured around NIST guidance on handling incidents. Key staff are trained in forensics and handling evidence in preparation for an event, including the use of third-party and proprietary tools. Testing of incident response plans is performed for key areas, such as systems that store sensitive customer information. Tests consider a variety of scenarios, including insider threats and software vulnerabilities.

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
  • Equal opportunity

Fighting climate change

We help organisations reduce their carbon footprint by migrating to the cloud. Depending on where you run your systems today, you can reduce up to 80% of your carbon emissions by moving to the Cloud. In fact, we have created a service called GreenLab, which helps organisations discover their current infrastructure, map out their footprint and build a business case which adds sustainability to the migration plan.
This is one of the reasons why we partner with Google Cloud, which is widely recognised as the "cleanest cloud". In 2007, Google was the first major company to commit to and achieve carbon neutrality. Since 2017 Google matched 100% of electricity consumption to neutralize all of their operational emissions since their founding. And are aiming higher - to run on carbon-free energy, 24/7, at all of their data centers by 2030.

Equal opportunity

Ancoris is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, marital status, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.
But we go beyond that. For example, we partner with Generation, a charity which helps candidates from all different backgrounds to get into technology through training and subsequent placement with tech companies. We continuously work on improving our recruitment processes and employer value proposition to ensure we are able to both attract and retain the most diverse pool of talent. We are also committed to promoting talent from within, which enables our diverse employee base to continually develop and rise to the top of the organisation.

Pricing

Price
£100.00 a unit
Discount for educational organisations
No
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 gcloud@ancoris.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.