| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Chief information security officer | £1,000.00 | £1,100.00 |
PROTOS NETWORKS LIMITED
IASME Defence Cyber Certification (DCC)
The IASME Defence Cyber Certification (DCC) is a comprehensive, organisation-wide cyber security standard for suppliers to the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD). The standard is a risk-based certification that ensures suppliers meet Defence Standard (DEF STAN) 05-138 requirements.
Protos Networks offer implementation and audit services as an IASME certification body.
Features
- Various certification levels available from Level 0- Level 3
- Controls required vary from 3 controls to 144 controls
- Services can be provided as an implementation partner or auditor
- Service includes consultancy, preassessment audit or official audit services
- Service includes scope definition and scope attestation support
- Cyber Essentials prerequisite certification services can also be included
- Certification includes certification, audit and consultancy costings
- All assessments are independently verified
Benefits
- Offers greater market access and credibility compared to uncertified competitors
- An essential prerequisite for winning certain MOD contracts
- Replaces multiple questionnaires and is valid for 3 Years
- Comprehensive security standard focusing on evidence based controls
- Aligns with DEFSTAN 05-138 Legislation requirements
- Builds on security benefits of Cyber Essentials certifications
Pricing
- Education pricing available
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 15
Service ID
8 4 2 1 3 1 5 5 2 4 8 5 3 7 9
Contact
PROTOS NETWORKS LIMITED
Damien Sansom
Telephone: 0333 370 1353
Email: damien.sansom@protosnetworks.com
About the service
- Service categories
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- Cloud Support Services
- Security Services
- Security strategy
- Security strategy
- Security risk management
- Security risk management
- Security incident management
- Security incident management
- Security audit services
- Security audit services
- Other
- Other
- Security strategy
- Security Services
- Cloud Support Services
Service scope
- Service constraints
- Where consultancy or audit services are required to be performed on-site or out of hours. Expenses costs or out of hours service charges may need to be incurred.
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
- No
- Support levels
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All DCC certification customers will be provided with a designated technical account manager and dedicated technical assessor primary contact.
Applicants can choose to procure implementation support and consultancy services or just essential required audit services.
Costings for required consultancy and audit services will be dependent on the size of the organisation which requires assessment and complexity of their in-scope infrastructure and scope attestation which requires assessment.
Supplier type
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2019
- Government security clearance
- Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)
Pricing
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Lead cyber security audit and assurance | £900.00 | £1,000.00 |
| Principal cyber security audit and assurance | £1,000.00 | £1,100.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate cyber security governance and risk manager | £800.00 | £900.00 |
| Lead cyber security governance and risk manager | £900.00 | £1,000.00 |
| Principal cyber security governance and risk manager | £1,000.00 | £1,100.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate cyber security monitoring | £800.00 | £900.00 |
| Lead cyber security monitoring | £900.00 | £1,000.00 |
| Principal cyber security monitoring | £1,000.00 | £1,100.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate cyber incident response | £900.00 | £1,000.00 |
| Lead cyber security incident response | £1,000.00 | £1,100.00 |
| Principal cyber security incident response | £1,200.00 | £1,300.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate cyber security digital forensics | £900.00 | £1,000.00 |
| Lead cyber security digital forensics | £1,000.00 | £1,100.00 |
| Principal cyber security digital forensics | £1,100.00 | £1,200.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate cyber security testing | £800.00 | £900.00 |
| Lead cyber security penetration testing | £900.00 | £1,000.00 |
| Principal cyber security testing | £1,000.00 | £1,100.00 |
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- ISO/IEC 27001 accredited by
- United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS)
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- Tuesday 10 October 2023
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- N/A- All services in scope and SOA for certification
- ISO 28000:2022 certification
- No
- ISO 9001 certification
- No
- Quality management systems (QMS)
- Yes
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber Essentials Certificate Number
- C4b650b1-7b88-4948-adb7-a0572841106f
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number
- 8cb6a081-44c7-4036-9b79-11503a7da8b8
- Other security certifications
- Yes
- Any other security certifications
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- CREST Accreditation for Penetration Testing Services
- IASME Cyber Assurance Level 1 & Level 2 Certification
- IASME Quality Principles Certification
Social value
- Mission: Kick start economic growth
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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, address their physical wellbeing
- Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about and feel empowered to report and address bullying and harassment
- Activities to cascade good practice on fair working conditions throughout the supply chain
- Offer a pay and leave entitlement to all eligible staff who become kinship carers, ideally equivalent to statutory adoption pay and leave
- Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
- Monitoring and reporting of gender and ethnicity pay gaps and plans to address them where necessary
- 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
- Plans for an appropriate income replacement policy for staff who are required to spend time away from work to care for a sick dependent or close relative
- 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 the contract workforce by providing career advice, and providing opportunities for staff working on the contract with in-work progression career development into known skills shortages or high growth areas
- Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
- 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
Policy Outcome 2: Skills for growth: Supporting growth sectors and addressing skills gaps.
- Understanding of employment and relevant skills issues, and of the education and training issues relating to the contract. Illustrative examples: demographics, skills shortages, new opportunities in high growth sectors, geographic/local community and skills/employment challenges
- 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
- Ensuring accessibility to contracting and subcontracting opportunities for disabled business owners and employees
- Understanding of local demographics, needs and opportunities for the co-design of the goods, services and works to be delivered under the contract
- Measures to involve local stakeholders and/or users in design (e.g. in the design of services, systems, products or buildings)
- Measures for making facilities used in the delivery of the contract available for community groups, education or training
- Collaborating with anchor institutions and community groups to make facilities available for education, training or community events
- Mission: Make Britain a clean energy superpower
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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
- Collaborative ways of working with the supply chain to deliver additional environmental benefits in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
- Understanding of how to influence staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders through the delivery of the contract to support climate and nature protection and improvement
- Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity
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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
- Creation of employment opportunities particularly for those who face barriers to employment, such as prison leavers, care leavers and/or who are located in deprived areas, and for people in industries with known skills shortages or in high growth sectors
- 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
- Working conditions which promote an inclusive working environment and promote retention and progression
- 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
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
- Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort
- Understanding of issues relating to entering the contract workforce
- Creation of outreach activities to create a pipeline of employees for the future contract delivery
- Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort
- Mission: Build an NHS fit for the future
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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
Request an accessible format
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