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Sapphire

Dot™

Dot™ conducts asset discovery and vulnerability management to generate a comprehensive picture of your operational technology networks. Through the use of security-by-design and safety-critical scanning technology, our solution supports both modern and legacy networks, and leverages exclusive active scanning software.

Features

  • Asset discovery including manufacturer, model, serial number, firmware version
  • Passive scanning via SPAN port or PCAP file upload
  • Safety Critical Active Protocol Scanning to increase depth of discovery
  • Import third party data sources for cross-referencing
  • Export asset data as CSV or integrate to CMDB
  • Compatibility with many OT protocols and vendors
  • Vulnerability management for all your OT assets, prioritised by risk
  • Dynamic dashboard for insights into your OT cyber risk
  • PDF and CSV data exports for assets, connectivity and vulnerabilities
  • Integrations to SIEM/SOC, Firewalls and XDR solutions

Benefits

  • The first step in establishing an OT cyber security programme
  • Gather in-depth information about your OT assets
  • Accurate information on vulnerabilities and informed risk scoring
  • Flexible to meet the constraints of your OT environment
  • Easy to deploy, reach 100% visibility of your OT assets
  • Gain a total understanding of your OT architecture

Pricing

£5,495 to £999,999 a licence a year

  • Free trial available

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 katie.smith@sapphire.net. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

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

Contact

Sapphire Katie Smith
Telephone: 0845 58 27001
Email: katie.smith@sapphire.net

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
Dot™ interfaces with Optics™, our automated risk management solution for OT.
Cloud deployment model
  • Public cloud
  • Private cloud
  • Community cloud
  • Hybrid cloud
Service constraints
Please refer to end user license agreement, our terms and conditions, and fair use policy.
System requirements
Access to an up-to-date web browser

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
Response within 4 hours Monday to Friday 9-5
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
Onsite support
Yes, at extra cost
Support levels
This service is supported 9-5 Monday to Friday excluding public holidays.

Our target SLA for 9x5 Business Day. Response Time Severity 1: 30 Minutes, Severity 2,3,4 is 4 Hours or next working day where appropriate

Severity 1 is defined as totally service affecting/service down

Level 1 - Sapphire Helpdesk
The first point of escalation should always be the Sapphire HelpDesk and escalation must be separate from the initial call to log the fault. The customer must obtain a case reference number for the fault.

Level 2 - Sapphire Professional Services Manager
This is the second point of escalation in the event of the HelpDesk being uncontactable or an increase in call priority being required. The Cloud customer should quote the case reference number provided.

Level 3 - Sapphire Business Services Director
This is the third point of escalation in the event of the Manager being uncontactable or a further increase in call priority being required.
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
There is a deployment guide or you can use Professional Services to install and deliver training on advanced configurations
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
PDF
End-of-contract data extraction
Users can export reports before access to the service is ended, as would have taken place during normal operation of the service.
End-of-contract process
When a contract is ended, the entire customers tenancy is deleted on the backend and all customer data is removed from the database systems associated with that tenancy ID.

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Supported browsers
  • Internet Explorer 11
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Opera
Application to install
No
Designed for use on mobile devices
No
Service interface
Yes
User support accessibility
None or don’t know
Description of service interface
Through a management GUI
Accessibility standards
None or don’t know
Description of accessibility
Through a management GUI
Accessibility testing
Unknown
API
Yes
What users can and can't do using the API
Bespoke APIs can be designed and implemented for customers on an individual basis at additional cost.
API documentation
Yes
API documentation formats
PDF
API sandbox or test environment
Yes
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
Bespoke features can be designed and implemented for customers on an individual basis at additional cost.

Scaling

Independence of resources
Each customer is provided with a separate tenancy with its own automatically scalable resources on demand.

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
Fully automated logging giving detailed forensic analysis of Network activity, attacks and compliance of your cloud security infrastructure
Reporting types
Reports on request

Resellers

Supplier type
Not a reseller

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
United Kingdom
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
In-house
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
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
There are export features within the GUI, including PDF reports and CSV exports of connections, assets and vulnerabilities. API connections to SIEM, firewall and XDR solutions.
Data export formats
  • CSV
  • Other
Other data export formats
  • PDF
  • API
Data import formats
  • CSV
  • Other
Other data import formats
  • PCAP
  • Proprietary OT programming software exports

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
We do not offer a target availability
Approach to resilience
Available on request
Outage reporting
Email alerts if requested

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
2-factor authentication
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
"2-factor authentication
Limited access network (for example PSN)
Username or password
Other"
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)

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information
You control when users can access audit information
How long user audit data is stored for
At least 12 months
Access to supplier activity audit information
You control when users can access audit information
How long supplier audit data is stored for
At least 12 months
How long system logs are stored for
At least 12 months

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
Yes
Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
SGS United Kingdom Ltd
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
12/09/2023
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
None, the whole organisation is within scope.
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
  • Other
Other security governance standards
Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus
Information security policies and processes
We are ISO 27001 compliant.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach
We align to ITIL standards and deploy changes within a change board process. We ensure regression steps are in place before configuring a change. Where relevant and appropriate we will consult with customers before making the change.
Vulnerability management type
Supplier-defined controls
Vulnerability management approach
Microsoft performs all vulnerability management of the azure and service components. Sapphire owned and operated systems follow our ISO accredited vulnerability management process and comply with Cyber essentials plus. Our process includes (1) update by default (2) full asset register and identification (3) triage, prioritise, identify workarounds for unavailable fixes) (4) all don't update decisions are recorded, reviewed and actioned when appropriate (5) the process is regularly review and all exceptions or mitigations are verified and validated. We utilise a combination of our VM vendor, threat intelligence and monitoring to assign prioritisations and typically remediate within 5 days
Protective monitoring type
Supplier-defined controls
Protective monitoring approach
Sapphire utilises our MXDR service to monitor and defend Sapphire, this includes threat modelling to identify log prioritisation and requirements 24x7, full analysis and investigation of all events (both alerted and identified through threat hunting), the integration of threat intelligence for further context and enrichment, and the SLA driven responses of both active (contain, isolate remediate) and passive guided (for business critical assets) all responses include both immediate containment, and more strategic recommendations to prevent recurrence. We triage all alerts within 15 minutes, and respond in a prioritised manner with the highest priority responses within 30 minutes.
Incident management type
Supplier-defined controls
Incident management approach
Sapphire maintains an incident response process that is accredited under ISO 27001, and covers predefined playbooks for all incident types, we actively encourage user reporting through our help desk and security culture, reinforcing and evangelising this through regular user awareness and testing. All incidents are reported and follow a process of notification to any impacted clients. This is augmented by independent partner incident response capability and assisted by live feedback from our incident response team and partners relating to client incidents allowing us to iterate and improve this process.

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
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

Fighting climate change

We make sure that we recycle where we can and take appropriate modes of transport to get to clients. Our offices in Darlington and Glasgow are easily accessible by public transport meaning that many of our colleagues go to an office by these means. For other colleagues, we offer remote working, and colleagues are able to attend an office when they need We are pricing our services to encourage customers to prefer remote access and remote working where possible. One of Sapphire staff is undertaking a part time PHD studying the carbon consequences of cyber crime and it’s mitigation which is inclusive of Sapphire customers and partners.

Covid-19 recovery

We have encouraged our staff back to office working especially in the SOC which runs 24*7 shift patterns. We have recently engaged in local communities by hiring space in local charity buildings for company meetings as in house face to face meetings. We have performed pro-bono work with charities to check their security status and help them move onwards from Covid in the face of increased cyber attacks on charities.

Equal opportunity

We have an Equal Opportunities policy which everyone in Sapphire adheres to. We are currently at 29% of females in our organisation, a number that has grown over the last few months. Our recruitment processes allow us to interview the best people for the roles we have available, and we insist on 50:50 short-lists for all roles. We value the views of others and see as a strength our openness to challenge. We employ military reservists, and are supportive of their overseas deployment commitments on behalf of HM Government. Recently we have signed documentation to join the NCSC Cyber First scheme to help young people especially women and girls to join the ranks of cyber professionals. We also mentor young people who are keen to move into cyber at some stage in their career.

Wellbeing

We take the wellbeing of our colleagues seriously; we offer an Employee Assistance Programme, have health cover, a pension scheme and Life Cover. We also provide opportunities for colleagues to Give Back to local projects/schemes and they can use a day a year to do this.

Pricing

Price
£5,495 to £999,999 a licence a year
Discount for educational organisations
No
Free trial available
Yes
Description of free trial
A free trial of Dot™ can be requested from Sapphire which will provide the user with a cloud-hosted instance which they can upload a PCAP file for analysis, limited to 7 days and up to 25 assets, once every 12 months.

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 katie.smith@sapphire.net. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.