BARRIER NETWORKS LIMITED

Barrier Networks Cybersecurity Risk Ratings Platform (SecurityScorecard)

SecurityScorecard is a comprehensive cyber security risk ratings platform that continuously monitors the cyber security health of organisations to inform cyber security risk management. SecurityScorecard identifies public facing vulnerabilities that create a security risk. Use cases include self monitoring, peer bench-marking, third party risk management and cyber insurance.

Features

• Instantly identifies vulnerabilities, active exploits and advanced threats
• rotects your business and strengthens your security posture
• Gives insight into what a hacker sees
• View the security posture of your vendors and partners
• Provides and maintains compliance with regulations and standards
• Insight into Cyberhealth of potential mergers or acquisitions
• Streamline cybersecurity compliance and due diligence using Atlas
• Machine learning enables validation of vendor responses in near real-time
• Peer Benchmarking

Benefits

• Simple and easy to use interface
• Monitor all your partners and/or vendors from a single platform
• Aids collaboration with vendors to improve their security posture
• Streamline and improve your vendor risk management programme
• argest database of scored companies provides detailed risk analytics
• Passive, non intrusive and continuous security assessment
• Reduce cyber insurance premiums

• Education pricing available
• Free trial available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

640315336701168

Contact

Iain Slater
0141 356 0101
sales@barriernetworks.com

About the service

• Service categories:
  • Systems Infrastructure Software
    • Security
      • Security analytics
        • Security analytics
      • Data security
        • Digital trust
      • Governance, risk and compliance
        • Governance, risk and compliance
• Multi cloud support: Yes

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: No
• Cloud deployment model: Public cloud
• Service constraints: None
• System requirements: N/A

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes
• Support response times: Mon-Fri 9am-5:30pm excl bank holidays customers receive an initial response within one business hour
• 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: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: No
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: We provide support from priority 1 to priority 4 cases on any existing configuration or part of the platform that is in total or partial failure as well as not working as expected. We also provide configuration guidance and recommendations for use cases. Each customer receives their own Account Manager who works closely with Support and ensures that cases can be followed up. Barrtier's Support desk is available as a value added service in addition to the maintenance and support purchased alongside the license.
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: You can request a free assessment of your own company. Once you have purchased relevant licences SecurityScorecard can be accessed via the browser by logging on with your personal credentials. Online Training can be provided.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• Documentation accessibility standard: None or don’t know
• How the documentation is accessible: Although our onboarding and offboarding documentation has not been formally assessed against WCAG 2.2 or EN 301 549, we aim to make it accessible in practice. Documentation is provided in digital formats that support assistive technologies (e.g., searchable text rather than scanned images), uses clear headings and consistent structure to support screen readers and navigation, and avoids conveying critical information through colour alone. Links use descriptive text, and we include step-by-step instructions in plain language with defined terms where needed. Where diagrams or screenshots are used, we provide accompanying explanatory text.
• End-of-contract data extraction: No proprietary information is stored. Users can extract Summary, Issues and Detailed reports on the companies they are monitoring
• End-of-contract process: At the end of the contract access to the platform will cease.

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
• Application to install: No
• Designed for use on mobile devices: No
• Service interface: No
• User support accessibility: None or don’t know
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: SecurityScorecard collect terabytes of data on 1m+ of entities worldwide. Their forward-based threat intelligence capabilities are powered by a proprietary sensor network that spans the globe. Their data science and machine learning capabilities transform that telemetry into intelligence that can be used to identify risks and prevent exploits. Through API Connectors, they make this data consumable by technology companies, insurers, rating agencies, security teams, and more.
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats:
  • Open API (also known as Swagger)
  • HTML
• API sandbox or test environment: No
• Customisation available: No

Scaling

• Independence of resources: SecurityScorecard are continually monitoring and enhancing their platform to provide the highest levels of service to their customers

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: No

Supplier type

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

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Developed Vetting (DV)

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 4.0)
• Penetration testing frequency: At least once a year
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v4.0
  • Encryption of all physical media
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Data sanitisation type: Deleted data can’t be directly accessed / Cryptographic Erasure
• Equipment disposal approach: A third-party destruction service

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: Data can be exported as .csv or .pdf
• Data export formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Other data export formats: PDF
• Data import formats: CSV

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: Service Provider’s goal is to achieve 99.9% Availability of the Services for its customers. If uptime for the Services is less than 98.0% for a given month of the Term, then Service Provider shall issue Customer a service credit (“Service Credit”) in accordance with the schedule below, with the credit being calculated based on the fees for month of the affected Services. “Availability” is defined as the 24/7 access to the web interface to the SecurityScorecard SaaS platform being accessible and users can log-in to the system. Availability excludes issues due to internet and/or connectivity.
• Approach to resilience: Resilience has been built into the design of SecurityScorecard's cloud based offering with failover and dynamic resource allocation available and utilised
• Outage reporting: SecurityScorecard may perform any standard maintenance, upgrades, replacement of hardware or software or any other like activity that may result in unavailability (collectively, “Scheduled Maintenance”). SecurityScorecard shall notify Customer in advance of any anticipated Scheduled Maintenance, and provide the date, time and expected duration. Such notice will be provided by email or web notification. Scheduled Maintenance shall not be included in the Uptime Commitment calculation. SecurityScorecard may also perform any maintenance reasonably necessary to fix critical Service functionality, security or other vulnerabilities or material defects that may substantially impair the usability or performance of the Services, to the extent such maintenance cannot reasonable be performed during the Scheduled Maintenance window (“Emergency Maintenance”). SecurityScorecard shall notify Customer at least 24 hours’ notice (or at least as much notice as is reasonably possible, where 24 hours is not commercially reasonable) of any Emergency Maintenance, including its date, time and expected duration. Such notice will be provided by email or web notification.

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password
  • Other
• Other user authentication: SAML
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Users are assigned access levels within SecurityScorecard. A user can either be Read Only, User or Admin
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least once a year
• Management access authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Username or password

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users contact the support team to get audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: At least 12 months
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users contact the support team to get 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

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Software Security Code of Practice: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards: ISO/IEC 27001
• Information security policies and processes: ISO27001

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Configuration and change management approach: SecurityScorecard adhere to industry good practise in terms of configuration and change management processes.
• Vulnerability management type: Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Vulnerability management approach: SecurityScorecard not only provide security posture monitoring of thousands of companies worldwide but also use their own technology to monitor their own security posture. Regular internal vulnerability scanning is run and endpoint protection deployed
• Protective monitoring type: Undisclosed
• Protective monitoring approach: An automated or manually reported alert is sent. Once the incident has been acknowledged the first responder is responsible to triage the issue. For product related issues, there is a reference chart of team owners. For infrastructure related issues the incident will be escalated to either Infrastructure Services Team or the Site Reliability Engineering Team For security related incidents a conference bridge is opened and all members of the SecOps team attend. The IRT engineer continues to provide the high level updates to stakeholders. Once the incident is closed, the various parties work together to author the post mortem document
• Incident management type: Undisclosed
• Post-quantum cryptography secure: No
• Incident management approach: Industry standard incident management processes are in place

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 v4.0)

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: No

Pricing

• Discount for educational organisations: Yes
• Free trial available: Yes
• Description of free trial: Instant SecurityScorecard provides a free limited summary view into the security posture of your organisation that can be accessed every 30 days.

Discount percentage by annual call-off contract value (excluding VAT)

• Less than £250,000: 5%
• Between £250,000 and £500,000: 5%
• Between £500,001 and £1,000,000: 10%
• Between £1,000,001 and £2,500,000: 10%
• Between £2,500,001 and £5,000,000: 10%
• Over £5,000,001: 10%

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• ISO/IEC 27001 accredited by: British Assessment Bureau
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: Wednesday 7 June 2023
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: Our certificate uses Statement of Applicability Version 1.3 (29 April 2025) but does not include exclusions or controls not covered.
• ISO 28000:2022 certification: No
• ISO 9001 certification: Yes
• ISO 9001 certification accredited by: British Assessment Bureau
• ISO 9001 accreditation date: Sunday 2 June 2024
• What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover: N/A
• Quality management systems (QMS): Yes
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber Essentials Certificate Number: Cbaed41f-aa61-4059-8968-3775daaa83a4
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number: Ff1c64fb-7750-4095-8fbb-45aadf87260c
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications:
  • CREST – SOC (Security Operations Centre)
  • CREST – Penetration Testing
  • NCSC - Assured provider of Cyber Incident Exercising
  • NCSC - Assured Cyber Incident Response (CIR) Standard Level

Social value

• Mission: Kick start economic growth:

  To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

  Policy Outcome 1: Fair work: That offers fair wages and good working conditions. Help people get a job, stay in work, and progress in their careers, with good employment opportunities across the country. Notes: Where there is a large proportion of labour costs in the contract, commercial teams should consider MAC in Outcome 1 as a priority

  • New or retained jobs on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b, 1c and 1d
  • Providing opportunities for, and measuring and monitoring of, staff workforce conditions over time, including employee engagement, involvement in decision-making and satisfaction and adapting to any changes in the results, with clear processes for acting on issues identified
  • Plans to engage the contract workforce in deciding the most important workplace issues to address
  • Monitoring of employee engagement rates (by protected characteristic) and, where necessary, the development of actions to ensure all voices are heard across the diversity of the workforce
  • Employment contracts that reflect actual hours worked; steps taken to ensure employees understand their contracts and have the ability to review and adjust them if actual hours regularly exceed contracted hours
  • Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about and feel empowered to report and address bullying and harassment
  • Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
  • Entitlement to sick pay for the contract workforce, with provision in place for any staff who do not meet the earnings threshold for statutory sick pay, payment of sick pay from day one of absence and payment of staff on the contract workforce who are off sick a replacement income of 100% of their usual earnings for as long as possible
  • Understanding of in-work progression issues affecting the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
  • Measures to support in-work progression to help people in the contract workforce, to move into higher paid work by developing new skills relevant to the contract
  • Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
  • Volunteering opportunities for staff
  • Understanding of the modern slavery risks and issues affecting the market, industry, sector or country (of origin or of source) relevant to the contract, and the workforce in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key subcontractors
  • Measures to identify, mitigate and manage modern slavery risks relating to the contract and how these will be implemented
  • Outline policies and practices to be applied to or put in place for the contract to mitigate and manage modern slavery risks, including: Pre-employment checks, recruitment practices. Workplace conditions, safeguarding plans and processes in place and regular monitoring with relevant groups considered, which may include sampling
  • How these flow down the supply chain and are monitored Illustrative examples include reporting, site visits, audits, etc.

  Policy Outcome 2: Skills for growth: Supporting growth sectors and addressing skills gaps.

  • Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications

  Policy Outcome 3: Resilient, innovative and flexible supply chains: Support economic growth through enabling resilient businesses, opportunities for small businesses and voluntary, community and social enterprises

  • Understanding of the types of businesses in the market and the level of participation by new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals
  • Understanding of local demographics, needs and opportunities for the co-design of the goods, services and works to be delivered under the contract
  • Methods for engaging with different parts of the community (including the education system and charities representing the community) and how communities come together to inform decisions, strategy and projects to leave a positive legacy for future generations
• Mission: Make Britain a clean energy superpower:

  To cut bills, create jobs and deliver security with cheaper, zero-carbon electricity by 2030, accelerating to net zero

  Policy Outcome 4: Sustainable procurement practices: Reducing carbon footprints, minimising waste, and promoting the use of clean energy and green technologies.

  • Understanding of opportunities for additional environmental benefits delivery in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
• Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity:

  By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain

  Policy Outcome 6: Employment and training: For those who face barriers to employment

  • Understanding of employment and skills issues, and of the skills and employment shortages of high growth sectors relating to the contract
  • Understanding of the issues affecting the representation of disabled people in the workforce in the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
  • Collection of the views and expertise of disabled people and their representative organisations on successfully supporting disabled employees or applicants
  • Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices, and retention-focused activities, including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition
  • Understanding of the issues affecting inequality in employment, skills and pay in the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors. Measures to tackle inequality in employment, skills and pay in the contract workforce
  • Inclusive and accessible development practices, including guidance for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition

  Policy Outcome 7: Creating a pipeline of opportunities: For the contract workforce, reducing barriers to entry for under-represented groups.

  • Understanding of the issues affecting the development of new skills by target cohort
  • Understanding of the underlying factors affecting improvements to reduce barriers to entry and training schemes for the target cohort(s) related to the contract workforce
• Mission: Build an NHS fit for the future:

  That is there when people need it; with fewer lives lost to the biggest killers; in a fairer Britain, where everyone lives well for longer.

  Policy Outcome 8: Increasing productivity through physical and mental wellbeing: In the supply chain and communities in the relevant area.

  • Understanding of issues relating to health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health, in the contract workforce
  • Understanding barriers to access to health and social care services or employment opportunities e.g. digital inclusion
  • Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices, development practices and retention policies that support-focused activities including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing which support people with a disability or health condition

Service documents

• Pricing document

  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 sales@barriernetworks.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.