CONTROL PLANE LIMITED
Agile Delivery Services for Cloud Native Security
ControlPlane has a proven history of enabling advanced security solutions through the application of Agile principles. We collaboratively design bespoke ways of working tailored to your organisation, ensuring that teams are fully equipped for business success. As your defence partners, we also rejuvenate a culture of effective delivery.
Features
- Tailored and flexible Agile solutions for your organisational landscape
- Desired outcomes definition, metrics generation, and continuous review
- High-performing team creation with ways of working agreements
- Agile Events facilitation and coaching, e.g. planning, retrospectives, reviews
- Product backlog creation, continuous refinement, and feedback adaption
- Delivery support and impediment unblocking to enable team effectiveness
- Cross-team partnership enablement to maintain collaboration, alignment, and transparency
- Continuous improvement facilitation, data generation, and reporting
- Embedded Scrum Master(s) and/or Product Owner(s), and training for staff
- Ongoing reporting, visibility, and collaboration with required stakeholders
Benefits
- Delivery that reduces risk and aligns with evolving business conditions
- Rapid course correction and adaptation to evolving information
- Shared alignment and focus on high-priority outcomes and goals
- Enhanced ability to innovate as impediments are removed
- Improved team effectiveness, self-management, and workflows
- Greater employee engagement and team morale
- Embedded systems and processes that facilitate efficient ways of working
- High-quality increments that meet the agreed Definition of Done
- Shared understanding between stakeholders and delivery teams
- Creation of a continuous improvement culture for ongoing advancement
Pricing
£750 to £2,700 a unit a day
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
6 8 9 3 6 0 5 4 6 4 5 8 4 5 2
Contact
CONTROL PLANE LIMITED
Technical Solutions
Telephone: 020 3137 9953
Email: solutions@control-plane.io
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
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We will work collaboratively with you to understand your organisational context and objectives, subsequently defining the project's problem statement, desired outcomes, and success criteria. The planning phase will incorporate insights from a diverse group of ControlPlane specialists in security, engineering, and delivery, ensuring you embark on the most optimal path.
Once the vision is established, we will assist you in creating and refining a provisional roadmap and product backlog, with an emphasis on the initial iteration to facilitate the integration of learnings into later development. Learnings and feedback, as they arise, will be clearly communicated and discussed with relevant stakeholders and team members. - Planning service works with specific services
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- Yes
- How the training service works
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We offer ongoing Agile and DevOps bite-size training that can be incorporated into team sessions. Alongside this, we provide tailored one-to-one coaching for internal Product Owners/Managers and Scrum Masters to enhance their capabilities in these roles and ensure the long-term success of the initiative after the engagement concludes.
We also offer stand-alone, deep-dive training sessions on any Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or DevOps topic of your choice.
Furthermore, ControlPlane provides comprehensive cloud native security training. - Training is tied to specific services
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- Yes
- How the setup or migration service works
- ControlPlane boasts extensive experience in cloud migrations within regulated industries, offering advice on operating models, designs, and implementations, as well as providing security assessments related to the migration. Our Agile team can collaborate with either our specialists or your team to conduct a migration, ensuring the achievement of desired outcomes.
- Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services
- No
Quality assurance and performance testing
- Quality assurance and performance testing service
- Yes
- How the quality assurance and performance testing works
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Our Security Architecture and Engineering team delivers automated security solutions and test suites for the correct implementation and configuration of infrastructure, platforms, and applications.
Our Agile delivery team works directly with our specialist teams, or yours, to implement rigorous testing processes tailored to their workflow and your organisational context. We also support teams to ensure that the Definition of Done and project quality gates are well defined and continuously met, and that defects are effectively tracked and responded to.
The test suites feature tests that are derived from requirements within the security architecture documentation, which, when baselined against a suitable standard (e.g., CIS Benchmarks, ISO27001, PCI-DSS), can provide evidence of compliance.
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
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- Security strategy
- Security risk management
- Security design
- Cyber security consultancy
- Security testing
- Security incident management
- Security audit services
- Certified security testers
- Yes
- Security testing certifications
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- Cyber Scheme
- Other
- Other security testing certifications
- Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- Yes
- Types of service supported
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- Buyer hosting or software
- Hosting or software provided by your organisation
- Hosting or software provided by a third-party organisation
- How the support service works
- Our cloud-native experts offer support for cloud hosting and software services. Our Agile team provides complementary delivery expertise, and ensures that support requests are effectively prioritised and addressed.
Service scope
- Service constraints
- Normal service hours are from 09:00 to 17:00 UK time on weekdays, excluding bank holidays. Work outside these hours requires prior agreement and may incur additional charges according to the SFIA rate card. All travel and subsistence costs to the client site will be chargeable based on the agreed Terms & Conditions.
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- For the duration of the project, ControlPlane staff will be available to answer email queries, usually within one business day.
- 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
- Depending on the required support, we allocate dedicated staff for each engagement, based on a skill-matching process. These professionals are available to offer phone and email support during UK working hours (09:00-17:00). Extended support is available upon agreement and may incur additional costs.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- 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
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
ControlPlane’s remote-first approach minimises wasteful travel to its corporate office. When travel to a client site is required, sustainable transport options are employed. This remote-first strategy enables ControlPlane to lower its carbon footprint by reducing travel and requiring only a small office.
Additionally, in delivering its architecture and engineering services, ControlPlane aims to eradicate wasteful spending on cloud resources. It designs and builds efficient, cost-effective solutions that utilise features such as autoscaling and configuration drift detection to minimise resource usage and expenditure.Covid-19 recovery
As a result of COVID-19, ControlPlane has become a remote-first organisation, offering enhanced flexibility, eradicating commuting, and improving employee work-life balance.
Remote engagements also reduce the burden on healthcare services by minimising virus transmission risks. The introduction of virtual tooling necessary for remote work has expanded accessibility to our services.
As a result of these changes, ControlPlane has been able to maintain a minimal office footprint, establish sustainable travel practices, and foster a remote-first culture.Tackling economic inequality
ControlPlane's commitment to skill enhancement through client and community engagement—ranging from classroom-based training and knowledge sharing on projects to active participation and presentations at free community meetups and conferences—effectively addresses skills shortages by empowering individuals to gain new skills and certifications.
As a vendor-neutral consultancy with a deep commitment to leveraging open source technologies, ControlPlane boasts a rich history of contributing to open-source projects and sponsoring PhD research in technologies it finds beneficial. This strategy not only promotes diversity within the technology supply chain but also ensures the selection of the most fitting technology to meet specific needs, rather than defaulting to a few monolithic suppliers.
Furthermore, with a strong focus on security, ControlPlane demonstrates an in-depth understanding of supply chain risks and management strategies, showcasing a proven record of evaluating supply chain risk and implementing solutions that enable organisations to securely utilize open source and other third-party products.Equal opportunity
ControlPlane is committed to promoting equal opportunity, and our diverse culture empowers and develops individuals with talent and integrity. We ensure that individuals at all levels of the organisation grasp the importance and benefits of diversity in high-performing teams. This empowers them with the motivation and opportunity to express their perspectives and drive change.
Our recruitment practices are designed to be as inclusive as possible, attracting and retaining top talent from a variety of experiences and backgrounds. We also offer existing employees support, professional development training, and other mechanisms to advance their careers.
Furthermore, ControlPlane partners with charities and schools to introduce underrepresented groups to careers in technology and security. These partnerships include hosting and contributing to workshops aimed at secondary school students. Our goal is to educate and inspire young individuals during their crucial academic decision-making phases.
ControlPlane is currently in the process of establishing an outreach programme.Wellbeing
ControlPlane is fully committed to employee wellbeing, offering two fully-paid company-wide mental health days annually. We strongly
encourage employees to take this time to focus on relaxation and wellbeing activities. We make scheduled contributions to an employee rewards and benefits platform, which includes a wellness portal and credits redeemable for various products and services, including those focused on wellness.
ControlPlane champions a community of open-source and security advocates by attending, presenting at, and organizing industry conferences, local meetups, and engaging with specialist interest groups within the Linux Foundation. Our collaborative ethos is evident in how we engage; we prefer to work embedded within client organisations and existing teams, rather than forming separate teams outside of an organisation.
Pricing
- Price
- £750 to £2,700 a unit a day
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
Service documents
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