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Company ProfileMay 2009
Brief History
• GSS merged with Peapod (UK) in Sep ’07• GSS started infosecurity business in 1997• Peapod started infosecurity business in 1995• Both businesses of similar size: turnover and people• Very similar technology profiles• Peapod had a separate consulting division• Both businesses:
- strong in public sector - strong in SME space
- had significant number of enterprise clients
Company Fact-file
• £11.5M turnover in 2008• £9.5M technology-based: £2M consulting-based• 55 staff• Offices in Bracknell and Worthing• Over 1,000 current buying clients• 500+ public sector organisations
- central government, education, LA’s, NHS, police
• 200+ consulting-only clients (no product)• In top 10 information security specialists in UK
GSS Company Structure
• Two operating divisions - Technology - Information Risk Management (IRM)
• 55 staff - 4 directors - 13 product-based engineers - 11 consultants/testers - 20 sales & marketing - 7 administration
IRM Division
• Gap analysis & risk assessments• Security architecture reviews• ISO-27001 lead auditors• DPA-DSS & PCI-DSS specialists• Policy reviews and production• Code of Connection specialists – GCSx (CoCo) & N3• Microsoft Infrastructure & security services
- Certified Gold Partner• Certified penetration and application testers
- CESG CHECK Green Accredited & CREST member
Technology Division
• Portfolio covers the majority of infosecurity requirements
• Partner a number leading brand vendors• Introduce innovative technologies to the market• Fully accredited with key vendors• Maintain accreditations via on-going training
programs• Provide help desk service for key products• Building range of managed services in partnership
with QinetiQ (information available on request)
Key Vendor Partnerships
• Firewalls - Juniper, Check Point, Secure Computing, GTA
• Secure Remote Access (SSL/SSH VPN’s) - Juniper SA, appGATE, Microsoft IAG
• Strong Authentication - RSA, Swivel, Signify
• Encryption, Device & Application control- Lumension, Utimaco
Key Vendor Partnerships
• Email, Web, IM Security/Management & DLP- Websense, Trend, Finjan, BorderWare, Facetime
• Intrusion detection & prevention (IDP) - Juniper, Radware
• Application delivery - Blue Coat, Radware, Juniper
• Policy deployment & management - NETconsent
Other Vendor Partnerships
• Cyber-Ark: digital vaults & identity access management, password and intra/inter-business security
• Imprivata: single sign-on/strong authentication
• Palo Alto: application layer/aware UTM firewall
• Breach: web application firewall
• Mimecast: ‘in the cloud’ email security and archiving
Other Vendor Partnerships
• Voltage: email & file encryption
• Tier 3: application layer behavioural intelligence
• Lancope: network behavioural analysis & intrusion prevention, and NetFlow analysis
• exaprotect: network threat detection, remediation and log management
• Protegrity: database & file encryption
Today’s Key Issues
• Business & regulatory compliance• Protection of share value & key business assets • Standards: ISO 9001/27001, SOX, PCI-DSS • Protection of personally identifiable
data: DPA-DSS• Policy management• Network connectivity: GCSx, N3• Data loss prevention• Improving return on investment• Reducing cost of ownership
Information Security
information assurance. delivered
Secure Infrastructure
Secure Infrastructure
Firewalls
Patch Management
VPN
IDS
Content
Active Directory
High Availability
Secure Data
Secure Data
Encryption
Email Archiving
Penetration Testing
Application Testing
Data Leakage Email
Secure People
Secure People
ISO 27001 NETconsent
Policy
Data Protection Act
Security Training
Information assurance. delivered
GSS solves today’s problems with:
• Solutions that meet the need within budget
• Leading brand & innovative technologies
• Full range of value-added technical services
• Unique managed services partnership with QinetiQ
• Portfolio of accredited security & compliance consulting services