QUADRIS LIMITED

Fortinet Fortiweb WAF as a Service

FortiWeb WAFs provide advanced features that defend your web-applications and APIs from known and zero-day threats. Using an advanced multi-layered approach, FortiWeb protects against the OWASP Top 10 and more. FortiWeb customizes the protection of each application, providing robust protection without requiring the time-consuming manual tuning required by other solutions.

Features

• 100% Cloud-based WAF-as-a-Service
• Proven web application and API protection
• Rapid deployment, natively available for AWS, Google Cloud and Azure
• Advanced visual analytics and reporting
• DDoS protection against both volumetric and application DDoS attacks
• ML-based Threat Detection
• Fine tuning for exceptions
• Security Fabric Integration
• Hardware-based Acceleration
• False positive mitigation tools

Benefits

• FortiWeb uses ML to protect against zero-day attacks
• FortiWeb protects against all OWASP Top-10 threats and DDOS attacks
• Full visibility and control of your application traffic
• Advanced tools that minimize the day-to-day management of policies
• FortiWeb delivers industry-leading protected WAF throughputs
• Integration with FortiGate firewalls and FortiSandbox
• Qualified Fortinet engineers and 24 x 7 support on hand

• 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

895303060560300

Contact

Mark Charity
01615374980
tenders@quadris.com

About your service

• Service categories:

  Systems Infrastructure Software

  Physical and virtual computing

  • Virtual client computing
• Multi cloud support: No

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: No
• Cloud deployment model:
  • Public cloud
  • Private cloud
  • Community cloud
  • Hybrid cloud
• Service constraints: None
• System requirements:
  • Internet Connectivity
  • Virtual or Physical Networks
  • Cloud based platform

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support response times: 07:00 - 18:00 Weekdays excluding Bank Holidays and 24x7 cover if the client has the out of hours support add-on. 1 to 4 hour response dependent on priority call, Priority 1 - (30 mins), Priority 2 - (1 hour), Priority 3 - (4 hours).
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: WCAG 2.2 A
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: No
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: We offer implementation support and transition from existing email security solutions to Fortiweb. This service can be scheduled 24 x 7 x 365 to accommodate a full range of customer operating hours.; See our service definition for a support breakdown and RACI matrix, and pricing details for the cost breakdown.; 07:00 - 18:00 Weekdays excluding Bank Holidays is based on our standard daily rate or included in the agreed support contract. Evenings and weekends is chargeable at the higher out of hours rates.
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: Firstly, Quadris would need an initial meeting with the client to determine and capture their requirements, and to complete an onboarding document. Using this information Quadris would help design a bespoke solution using the FortiWeb Cloud to determine the correctly sized virtual appliance and licenses, and the best location for these, we also need to assess the current bandwidth links to make sure they are sufficient for achieving the customers requirements. Once the solution has been signed off by the customer, Quadris will initiate a post sales project implementation process. This would involve all of the relevant stakeholders from both Quadris and the customer. During this project phase, all roles, responsibilities, training requirements, documentation and service transition processes will be actioned. The end users will be given access to the Quadris customer portal for logging service requests and trained in its use before the service goes live.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• End-of-contract data extraction: Once the license on the virtual appliance expires there will be no further updates or support. Logs, configuration data, backups, and documentation can be either be handed over to the customer or destroyed in a secure way.
• End-of-contract process: The customer will own the firewall devices at the end of the contract. Quadris will remove the monitoring, centralised deployment and analysing software as part of the decommissioning process which is free of any charges. As well as transferring over any data or documentation relating to this service stored by Quadris, also without any additional costs. If the customer wishes to purchase extended FortiGate software and hardware maintenance in order to keep the equipment in service then this would be chargeable and costs will vary at the time. Quadris support will also cease at the end of the contract and any additional work not mentioned above after this will be chargeable at the daily rate at that given point in time.
• Documentation accessibility standard: WCAG 2.2 A

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Opera
• Application to install: No
• Designed for use on mobile devices: No
• Service interface: Yes
• User support accessibility: WCAG 2.2 A
• Description of service interface: Web based control panel for deployment management and service configuration. The portal also provides extensive reporting and usage data.
• Accessibility standards: WCAG 2.2 A
• Accessibility testing: This is provided by the third party vendor, FortiNet.
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: The Fortinet Security Fabric APIs enable automated operations through dynamic sharing of local and global threat intelligence across security components, which can use that information to orchestrate a coordinated, rapid threat response to stop cyberthreats anywhere along the attack chain. The Security Fabric enables the development and delivery of comprehensive, end-to-end security solutions that can dynamically adapt to the evolving network architecture as well as the changing threat landscape. API Categories include, management, cloud, SDN orchestration, endpoint and IoT, Virtualisation, SIEM, vulnerability management, network and security operations.
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• API sandbox or test environment: No
• Customisation available: No

Scaling

• Independence of resources: There is an initial scoping exercise to make sure the correct service is provided at the start of the contract, then through ongoing monitoring and regular reviews, the performance is assessed on an ongoing basis, if the customer needs to upgrade because of increased traffic or an increased number of web application servers then we can review this during the contract and adjust accordingly

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: Quadris will monitor the uptime of the appliance and make sure it is online using proprietary monitoring software. The following reports can also be produced from the WAF web interface, User/device tracking, Real-time dashboards, Bot dashboard, OWASP Top 10 attack categorization, Geo IP Analytics SNMP, Syslog and Email Logging/Monitoring.
• Reporting types:
  • API access
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request
• Resource tagging: Yes
• FOCUS resource tagging: Yes

Resellers

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

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: 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: Supplier-defined controls
• Penetration testing frequency: Less than once a year
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Physical access control, complying with another standard
  • Encryption of all physical media
  • Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Equipment disposal approach: A third-party destruction service
• Data sanitisation type:
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed / Cryptographic Erasure
  • Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation / Secure Erase

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: Quadris will do the export based on the customers request, logs can be exported in either either plain text or CSV format. Reports can be exported to html, CSV or PDF.
• Data export formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Other data export formats:
  • PST
  • Txt
  • HTML
• Data import formats: CSV

Data-in-transit protection

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

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: SLA is subject to customer cloud/network environment.
• Approach to resilience: This information is available on request.; ; 2 appliances can be deployed in a HA cluster to increase resilience.; ; Also the underlying infrastructure of the customers network will impact this.
• Outage reporting: Individual virtual machines can report errors and outages through various means (including, API, Email, Web Interface, SNMP). In the event of an error to fetch an update, the local system will report this failure via the above methods. Service Status of the datacentre is available publicly on Fortiguard.com.

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Role based application security model together with MFA service for each user. System access is controlled by these roles which are in turn applied to groups of users to control what if any management access they have
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Management access authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • 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: Between 1 month and 6 months
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: Between 1 month and 6 months
• How long system logs are stored for: Between 1 month and 6 months

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards: ISO/IEC 27001
• Information security policies and processes: Quadris holds the following certifications that govern our security policies and processes: ISO27001, Cyber Essentials Plus, PCI DSS (self certified) and NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit. Security incidents are monitored and reported in real time. Security is managed via weekly management and monthly board meetings. Policy adherence is audited internally and externally via independent third party security specialists.
• Software Security Code of Practice: Yes

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Supplier-defined controls
• Configuration and change management approach: Our Change Management process is designed around the ITIL standard and supported by our Change Management system. All changes are detailed by our engineers, including the assets affected, the reason for the change, proposed scheduled time, risk and risk mitigation analysis and actions including the impact of change on the backup and security systems. Detailed implementation, testing and backout plans must be defined for each change. All changes must be approved by Quadris and the customer’s CAB team or individual. All configuration changes are tracked through the same system and made available via email and our self-service portal.
• Vulnerability management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Vulnerability management approach: We operate an internal and external vulnerability testing toolset on a weekly basis to identify vulnerabilities so they can be remediated immediately. An independent CREST, CISSP accredited security specialist conducts PEN tests of our network annually. Patch management operates in accordance with our ISO27001 certified Patching Policy to ensure all relevant devices are routinely patched against an effective schedule. We deploy a specialist patching application which automatically updates third party applications, such as Chrome, Adobe Reader etc. Zero day threats are monitored continuously via a specialist security service provider and actioned immediately.
• Protective monitoring type: Supplier-defined controls
• Protective monitoring approach: Quadris' Cloud portal interface is protected by a hosted cloud WAF service from Imperva, proxied access from Imperva is the only access permitted. This system automatically detects attempts to use the system maliciously and blocks and alerts automatically. We also subscribe to RSS security feeds from NVD to alert on relevant software solutions used in our cloud Alerts are sent directly to our SoC with <15m response to take appropriate action.
• Incident management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Incident management approach: Quadris operates an Incident Management (IM) process for failures or degradation to services, aligned to the ITIL standard. Our IM process includes impact analysis to determine the severity of the incident which has SLA backed response times. Where the cause of an incident is not diagnosed within 30 minutes the incident is automatically escalated to our incident escalations team with senior technical expertise in the related technology. Our IM process includes steps for developing workarounds to protect customers mission critical processes, including invocation of disaster recovery services and post incident review.
• Post-quantum cryptography secure: Yes

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: 1 month free trial

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

• Less than £250,000: 0%
• Between £250,000 and £500,000: 0%
• Between £500,001 and £1,000,000: 0%
• Between £1,000,001 and £2,500,000: 0%
• Between £2,500,001 and £5,000,000: 0%
• Over £5,000,001: 0%

Non-mandatory Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: Alcumus ISOQAR
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: Monday 23 December 2024
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: Nothing
• ISO 28000:2022 certification: No
• ISO 9001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO 9001 certification: Alcumus ISOQAR
• ISO 9001 accreditation date: Sunday 1 March 2026
• What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover: Nothing
• Quality management systems (QMS): Yes
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: Yes
• Who accredited the PCI DSS certification: Self Certified
• PCI DSS accreditation date: Thursday 31 July 2025
• What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover: Nothing that is relevant to payment card data
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number: Efd9a36b-8242-4072-80f4-b85478753275
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Please provide your Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number: 489a45a4-c84f-467c-84ec-17823af0d137
• Other security certifications: No

Social value

• Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery:

  • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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

  • 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 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
    • Activities to support relevant sector related skills growth and sustainability in the contract workforce. Illustrative examples: careers talks, curriculum support, literacy support, safety talks and volunteering

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

    • Structuring of the supply chain selection process to ensure fairness (e.g. anti-corruption) and encourages participation by a diverse range of businesses, including with regard to new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutual
    • Plans for positive actions with community groups.
    • Collaborating with anchor institutions and community groups to make facilities available for education, training or community events

  • 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
    • Delivery of additional environmental benefits through 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
    • 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
    • Inclusive and accessible development practices, including guidance for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition

  • 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 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
    • Creation of outreach activities to create a pipeline of employees for the future contract delivery

  • 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
    • 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
    • Actions to invest in the physical and mental health and wellbeing of the contract workforce

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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