BLOCKPHISH

Guardicore Software Defined Segmentation Managed Service

The Guardicore Centra Security Platform allows you automatically visualise your entire data centre environment, map application dependencies and flows to identify security gaps, and create policies based on asset classification, including AI-powered templates, reducing your attack surface and minimising the risk of Ransomware

Features

  • Provide full network visibility down to the process level
  • Map application process and context level dependencies and flows
  • Consistent network segmentation policy enforcement across cloud and datacenter
  • Simple and Intuitive Micro-Segmentation
  • Granular Visibility and Controls for Hybrid Cloud
  • Application and environment ringfencing
  • Detailed incident and threat reports

Benefits

  • Unrivaled visibility of your network traffic at a process level
  • Reduce risk with granular segmentation policies that prevent lateral movement
  • Reduce network complexity while enhancing security
  • Innovate faster by integrating security into DevOps and automation
  • Built for Cloud
  • Enterprise Scalability and Performance
  • Detect More Threats Faster and Respond with Greater Intelligence

Pricing

£50 to £350 a server a year

  • Education pricing available
  • Free trial available

Service documents

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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 Sam.Jennings@BlockPhish.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

7 0 4 3 4 4 1 2 9 7 1 0 3 7 0

Contact

BLOCKPHISH Samantha Jennings
Telephone: 07714705598
Email: Sam.Jennings@BlockPhish.com

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
No
Cloud deployment model
  • Public cloud
  • Private cloud
  • Hybrid cloud
Service constraints
A list of supported operating systems can be provided on request.
System requirements
  • Aggregator - 4GB RAM min., 4 vCPUs min., 30GB storage
  • Further system reqs provided on contract award

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Yes, at extra cost
Support response times
Critical: 1 Hour. Serious: 4 Hours. Moderate: 1 Business Day; and Minor: 5 Business Days.
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
No
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
24 hours, 7 days a week
Web chat support
No
Onsite support
Onsite support
Support levels
Critical: 1 Hour. Serious: 4 Hours. Moderate: 1 Business Day; and Minor: 5 Business Days. Further detail can be provided on contract award.
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
BLOCKPHISH provide full onboarding including training, demo environments and implementation workshops
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
  • HTML
  • PDF
End-of-contract data extraction
Data is fully deleted and servers sanitised on license termination.
End-of-contract process
License terms are one, two or three years with renewal options available. Managed services can be procured at an additional cost.

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Supported browsers
  • Internet Explorer 11
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Opera
Application to install
Yes
Compatible operating systems
  • Linux or Unix
  • Windows
  • Other
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
Automate configuration
API documentation
Yes
API documentation formats
  • HTML
  • PDF
API sandbox or test environment
Yes
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
Guardicore is highly versatile and can be customised to meet business requirements

Scaling

Independence of resources
Guardicore has been built for cloud and is infinitely scalable to meet customer demand.

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
Guardicore provides unrivaled visibility into your network traffic. Examples, Policy violations, incidents per hour/per day, reputation statistics and more
Reporting types
  • API access
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

Supplier type
Reseller providing extra features and support
Organisation whose services are being resold
Guardicore (Akamai)

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Conforms to BS7858:2019
Government security clearance
Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

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
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
  • Encryption of all physical media
  • Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Data sanitisation type
  • Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
Equipment disposal approach
In-house destruction process

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
Guardicore Centra supports the following Intelligence-Sharing Export Protocols STIX, Syslog, CEF and Open REST API
Data export formats
CSV
Data import formats
CSV

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
Private network or public sector network
Data protection within supplier network
TLS (version 1.2 or above)

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
99.5% Service Credit added to the Customer’s Service Plan at no extra charge to the Customer. If no other contractual definition applies, Service Plan will be considered as 20% of the agreed annual license fee Uptime Percentage (out of the Quarterly Service Plan value) Target Uptime- 99.5% and above Less than 99% but equal to or greater than 97.5% - 2.5% Less than 97.5% but equal to or greater than 96% - 5% Less than 96% but equal to or greater than 94% -10% Less than 94% - 15%
Approach to resilience
Available on request
Outage reporting
Tailorable dependent on customer's requirements

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Username or password
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
Granular policy based access configuration
Access restriction testing frequency
At least every 6 months
Management access authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Dedicated link (for example VPN)
  • Username or password

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
Between 6 months and 12 months
Access to supplier activity audit information
You control when users can access audit information
How long supplier audit data is stored for
Between 6 months and 12 months
How long system logs are stored for
Between 6 months and 12 months

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
Yes
Any other security certifications
  • CISSP
  • CISM
  • CISA

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 Certificate. In addition, all internal policies follow best practices outlined by ISO/IEC 27001.
Information security policies and processes
Independently verified processes for Security. ISO27001 for public hosted cloud service

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach
Available on request
Vulnerability management type
Supplier-defined controls
Vulnerability management approach
Managed end to end threat analysis with machine learning and artificial intelligence applications.
Protective monitoring type
Supplier-defined controls
Protective monitoring approach
Managed end to end service for protective monitoring
Incident management type
Supplier-defined controls
Incident management approach
Managed end to end Incident Management approach

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

Equal opportunity

Equal opportunity

BLOCKPHISH is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Pricing

Price
£50 to £350 a server a year
Discount for educational organisations
Yes
Free trial available
Yes
Description of free trial
Two week proof of concept is possible

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 Sam.Jennings@BlockPhish.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.