Cyber Assessment Framework - Objectives, outcomes and achievements

As an organisation that lives and breathes policies, processes, procedures, frameworks, standards etc, Protocol Policy Systems (PPS) has recently conducted a project to align the best practice policy content of Policy Management as a Service with the CAF requirements.

This means our UK customers, when conducting a framework assessment exercise, will be able to quickly and easily demonstrate that they have evidence in the form of tailored IT policies and indicators of good practice (IGP’s) in place across the 4 objectives documented in the framework –

1. Managing security risk
2. Protecting against cyber-attacks
3. Detecting cyber security events
4. Minimising the impact of cyber security incidents.

This addition to our offering means that any council organisations who subscribe to Policy Management as a Service can very quickly develop, deliver and maintain comprehensive tailored policy content that is suited to their business requirements whilst supporting their efforts to achieve the outcomes stated within the 4 objectives of the framework (CAF).

Click below to view our video on PMaaS support for the CAF profile for UK Local Government.

New version release - PMaaS

With the pending release of our first enhancement upgrade Policy Management as a Service here’s a quick overview of some of the new and updated functions being introduced.

Support for additional policy content

PDF documents supplied by the client to Protocol Policy Systems can be uploaded to their unique instance of Policy Management as a Service (PMaaS). New menu headings and sub-items can be added to PMaaS’ left-hand menu to categorise the additional policy content. If a customer requires a user to review and accept any of the additional policy content documents on-screen, then the display can include an acknowledgement block at the bottom of the PDF document.

A selection of functions are to manage the ownership of the additional policy content are available, such as assigning a policy owner, review date and review cycle, which will automate the release of policy review reminders. Click below to watch a short introduction video on this new feature.

Add a brand new statement to an existing policy

Primary Users will be able to request a new statement to be added to a policy.

Export All Combined Word Documents

All the policy documents collated by topic and persona (user/manager/technical) will be output in Word format using a zip file.

We have also recently updated our content to reflect the release of the following:

• PCI-DSS content to reflect the release of the 4.0.1 guidance
• Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) for Local Government

View the full enhancement release details here.
   
Contact us today to discuss how Policy Management as a Service can assist your organisation get the foundations in place for a secure computing environment.