Data Vault

Service scope

Software add-on or extension: No
Cloud deployment model: Public cloud

Private cloud

Community cloud

Hybrid cloud
Service constraints: Must use Postgres or MySQL for current service but additional SQL variants can be added at the clients request for extra cost (TBD)
System requirements: Linux

MySQL

Postgres

User support

Email or online ticketing support: No
Phone support: Yes
Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support: Yes, at an extra cost
Web chat support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support accessibility standard: None or don’t know
How the web chat support is accessible: X
Web chat accessibility testing: X
Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
Support levels: L1: Tier/Level 1(T1/L1)
Initial support level responsible for basic customer issues. Gathering formation to
determine the issue by analysing the symptoms and figuring out the underlying problem.
L2: Tier/Level 2(T2/L2)
This is a more in-depth technical support level than Tier I containing experienced and more
knowledgeable personnel on a particular product or service.
L3 Tier/Level 3(T3/L3)
Individuals are experts in their fields and are responsible for not only assisting both Tier I and
Tier II personnel, but with the research and development of solutions to new or unknown
issues.
Severity Definitions
1- Critical: Proven Error of the Product in a production environment. The Product Software
is unusable, resulting in a critical impact on the operation. No workaround is available.
2- Serious: The Product will operate but due to an Error, its operation is severely restricted.
No workaround is available.
3- Moderate: The Product will operate with limitations due to an Error that is not critical to
the overall operation. For example, a workaround forces a user and/or a systems
operator to use a time consuming procedure to operate the system; or removes a nonessential
feature.
4- Due to an Error, the Product can be used with only slight inconvenience.
Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started: Introduction to Data Vaults
https://www.data-vault.co.uk/what-is-data-vault/

Included; Core Data Vault consultancy Data Vault installation and configuration Data Vault tuning Data Vault testing Security installation and configuration
Service documentation: Yes
Documentation formats: HTML

PDF
End-of-contract data extraction: All data resides inside the customers cloud/onprem account.
End-of-contract process: Support and maintenance of the service will cease.

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: We supply Data Vault set up and configuration with Postgres and MySQL but other variants of SQL can be implemented at additional cost to the client.
The service can be deployed on premise or on the cloud.

Scaling

Independence of resources: Setting up infrastructure based on the volume of data from source systems.

Analytics

Service usage metrics: No

Resellers

Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
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

European Economic Area (EEA)
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: Never
Protecting data at rest: Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0

Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402

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: Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach: Various export utils through in use SQL variant. i.e Postgres Exporter - pgdump
Data export formats: CSV

Other
Other data export formats: SQL

TEXT
Data import formats: CSV

Other
Other data import formats: JSON

YAML

TEXT

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks: Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)

Other
Other protection between networks: Can also encrypt prior to transfer
Data protection within supplier network: TLS (version 1.2 or above)

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability: Customer dependent.
Approach to resilience: AWS services are delivered from multiple datacentres worldwide. When deploying customer services to AWS, Data Vaults can be configured such that services span multiple availability zones (data centres) to ensure service resilience. Alternatively, our Disaster Recovery as a Service offer can be used to provide DR.
Outage reporting: AWS Cloudwatch alerts can be created

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed: Yes
User authentication: Username or password
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Access to management interfaces and support channels is restricted through a combination of username and passwords, multifactor authentication, firewalling, IP restrictions, the use of bastion hosts as appropriate.
Access restriction testing frequency: At least once a year
Management access authentication: 2-factor authentication

Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)

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: User-defined
Access to supplier activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
How long supplier audit data is stored for: User-defined
How long system logs are stored for: User-defined

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

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
Security governance certified: Yes
Security governance standards: Other
Other security governance standards: Cyber Essentials
Information security policies and processes: Millersoft Data Vault service follows AWS best practice on security https://aws.amazon.com/security/. We have a range of technical and organisational measures to ensure data security and protection. These cover Access, Roles and Responsibilities, Resource/asset management, Access Control & Authentication, Workstation & Device Security, Network/Communications Security, Back-up, mobile/portable device security, and physical security of our premises. Staff training and awareness is ongoing, staff / contractors must sign confidentiality and privacy statements and read and sign company security policy. Sanctions are applicable for non-compliance. Our reporting structure if a security breach happens or is suspected: staff are trained to and required to immediately flag to DPO and CEO and lock down or isolate the breach where feasible; DPO/CEO will take immediate action including isolation or lock down of affected systems, notification to affected parties, implementation of business continuity and disaster recovery. Risk impact reviews are conducted when a new data category is processed, or system implemented, and security measures adapted as necessary. Category logs, training logs, access logs, and breach logs are maintained, reviewed and signed off periodically by the assigned DPO and CEO.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard: Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach: All code is under version control using git.
Jenkins is used to build releases.
An automated test framework is used for integration testing.
Changes are tracked via jira.
Cloudformation is used to deploy via AWS Marketplace.
Vulnerability management type: Undisclosed
Vulnerability management approach: Solution is deployed into customer's AWS VPC via AWS Cloudformation.
External access is configured via customer and GUI is locked down via AWS security groups.
SSH access is also locked down via security group and PEM file.
The access is as secure as the customers network.
Patches are in the form of new AWS AMIs.
Protective monitoring type: Supplier-defined controls
Protective monitoring approach: All logs go to AWS Cloudwatch for auditing, monitoring and alerting
Incident management type: Supplier-defined controls
Incident management approach: Each instance runs within a VPC within the customers AWS Account. There is no external access or monitoring. Issues need to be reported to the supplier and logs supplied for external analysis.

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice: Supplier-defined process

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks: No

Social Value

Tackling economic inequality

We believe that our social mission to assist young people into employment is compatible with the guidelines laid out in the Governments Social Value theme of tacking economic inequality (MAC 2.2). Wherever it has the opportunity to do so, Millersoft has and continues to offer placements, internships and employment to technology students from the deprived local area studying in local colleges and universities with whom we hold relations. Our method is to provide initial training and inductions to suitable internees before assigning them to live projects, where they are monitored, supported, challenged, and encouraged by experienced senior consultants and developers. As an organisation that values fresh and radical ideas to find new products and solutions to solve existing problems, internees are also encouraged to share their thoughts and ideas in a stimulating and collaborative environment, and often asked to implement, test and deploy them into real world projects. Regular development reviews are held with internees and progress objectives adapted accordingly. Internees, as is the case with all staff, receive regular training in the latest technologies which may cover Cloud Technologies (staff are trained to be Amazon Web Service Engineers and Architects), data processing tools, database management, project management, security. In most cases internees become full time employees at Millersoft once they graduate and are already well equipped to take on more responsibility and autonomy within the company.

Pricing

Price: £700 a unit a day
Discount for educational organisations: No
Free trial available: No

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User support

Onboarding and offboarding

Using the service

Scaling

Analytics

Resellers

Staff security

Asset protection

Data importing and exporting

Data-in-transit protection

Availability and resilience

Identity and authentication

Audit information for users

Standards and certifications

Security governance

Operational security

Secure development

Public sector networks

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Service documents

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Data Vault

Features

Benefits

Pricing

Service documents

Framework

Service ID

Contact

Service scope

User support

Onboarding and offboarding

Using the service

Scaling

Analytics

Resellers

Staff security

Asset protection

Data importing and exporting

Data-in-transit protection

Availability and resilience

Identity and authentication

Audit information for users

Standards and certifications

Security governance

Operational security

Secure development

Public sector networks

Social Value

Pricing

Service documents