Ministry of Data

How the Ministry worksThe people at the MinistryInside the MinistryBenefits to your businessInvestor and partner relationsMedia and pressContact us
The people at the Ministry
Department of Planning & ImplementationDepartment of Support & MaintenanceDepartment of Managed ServicesDepartment of Defence

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE

360º IT security consultancy
Our experienced security consultants with real-world knowledge of IT security asses your existing security systems and methods. They then make pragmatic recommendations on the best solutions to enhance your defensive arsenal, as well as proactive measures to meet increasingly sophisticated threats.

Perimeter defence
We provide advanced firewall solutions that provide maximum protection against internal and external security threats. Boundary encryption offers you the ability to set up securely-encrypted virtual private networks and private encrypted email networks between your networks and your partners. This can ensure the end-to-end delivery of encrypted communications without the need for complicated hardware or software to set up, configure or maintain.

Security incident ER
You can have confidence in the Ministry of Data in any crisis. In the event of a security incident, our specialist emergency response squad will either immediately access your systems remotely or, if this is not possible, attend your site within minutes of notification. The squad can implement specialist security and recovery services to counter any attack in progress, sanitise and repair business systems and restore the services to full operation in the quickest possible time.

Penetration testing
We conduct comprehensive security audits and penetration tests to ensure that all your business systems are protected from the latest vulnerabilities and exploits. The tests also ensure security systems and procedures are performing to their desired levels.

Application security testing
Application testing and code review is the process of actively evaluating software to ensure that it has been developed within the guidelines of security best practice. This ensures that your developers have followed the best security practice at every stage of project implementation. The applications are analysed for design weaknesses and technical flaws at the interface, database and in the code itself, thereby covering any potential security vulnerabilities in design or development of the application.

Intrusion detection
We utilise an armoury of industry-standard and proprietary developed tools to detect and secure any unwanted intrusion. The tools can be incorporated in a fully-integrated system.

Encryption
We are able to offer a battery of Industry and proprietary encryption and obfuscation solutions to protect sensitive data, information, emails and telephony.

Decryption
Ever forgot an admin password or the password to an encrypted file, database or archive? Perhaps a member of staff has left without disclosing passwords for encrypted company data. We offer a full money-back guarantee if we are unable to decrypt any data or break any password.

NB: We ONLY offer this service to clients who are the legal owners of the encrypted/protected resource or have a legal right to access the decrypted information. DO NOT contact us with encrypted information improperly or illegally obtained and ask us to crack it - we are simply not interested and will not respond to your request.

Counter surveillance
We have developed a number of solutions designed to "sweep" buildings, people and systems for any hidden recording, bugging, eavesdropping, surveillance, or keyboard logging devices as well as deploying measures to actively thwart future attempts to spy on or embed such devices and applications.

VPNs
We can provide fully-managed ultra secure Virtual Private Networks that give you cost-effective connectivity to remote sites at the very highest commercial security levels.

Due diligence
We can audit your security systems and provide documentation that demonstrates the right level of compliance as well as highlight potential risks. We regularly provide services that assess IT systems, capability, software even IT employees themselves for companies,  shareholders and potential investors.

Secure "Data shredding"
We can carry out complete data destruction or surgical data removal across any storage media or platforms at levels exceeding Department of Defence standards rendering the data completely unrecoverable.

Environmental security assessments
One of the areas most commonly overlooked by IT professionals is the physical security and access control measures in place to protect key equipment and sensitive information. We have the skills to carry out comprehensive assessments.

Custom security services
We perform a number of challenging security engagements that do not fit any of the usual categories. Our diverse background, unique approach, skill set, and problem-solving methodology have proven to be effective on any security problem. Give us a call and we will put together a bespoke solution for your security needs.

Disaster recovery
Coming soon.

Disaster recovery ER
You can have confidence in the Ministry of Data in any crisis. In the event of a disaster, our specialist emergency response squad will either immediately access your systems remotely or, if this is not possible, attend your site within minutes of notification. The squad will implement specialist recovery services to restore the company data and services to full operation in the quickest possible time.

Disaster recovery consultancy
It's vital to be prepared for a disaster. We review your existing arrangements and help you prepare contingency plans and systems that will ensure a rapid recovery in the event of any disaster. We are firm believers that prevention is far better than cure. So, on all our consultancy assignments, we aim to leave our clients with a number of solutions and options that will completely negate the need for any disaster recovery support in the future.

Planning and documentation
Our comprehensive 360º approach to recovery plans are fully-documented and incorporate processes for people, as well as equipment and services. We help you establish:

  • Risk assessments
  • Business continuity plans
  • Disaster recovery plans
  • Information security policies
  • Acceptable usage policies
  • Processes for reviewing operational documentation for compliance (PCI DSS, BS7799, DPA, ISO 2001 HIPAA, FSA, SOX, COBIT )

Immediate IT assistance 24/7
In the event of a disaster, we can provide immediate support for your IT systems, helping you to return to normal operation as quickly as possible.

IT forensics and evidence recovery services
We provide forensic recovery services of data from wiped, formatted or sabotaged media through to fire, water or shock damage. Common scenarios include engagements where company staff have wiped out information, or passed on confidential information to competitors.

Recovery suites
If necessary, we can provide fully-managed recovery suites with IT and communications facilities so that your staff can resume operations while other recovery operations proceed.

360º Business continuity

High availability solutions
Our business continuity solutions complement our disaster recovery services and are designed to ensure the highest levels of service availability under all conditions.

Onsite data protection
We can provide secure online facilities that protect your data by backing it up to our state-of-the-art data centres.

Offsite date protection
Our flexible networked storage solutions enable you to cope with increasing volumes of data by storing it on our fully-managed, highly-secure servers.

Business continuity insurance
Most business already have some form of business interruption insurance in place for events such as fire or flooding. However, although very few companies attempt to cover their critical business systems in the same way, serious downtime on critical systems can have an equally detrimental cost to the business. It is therefore vital to protect the business from these risks with the same diligence. Our range of business continuity solutions have been assessed by a number of major UK insurers and, in conjunction with our partners, we are able to provide companies with total business interruption cover.

Content filtering
Clik here for sign up form

Email filtering
We can install software on your email gateway to filter the content of all incoming and outgoing email. This protects against the risk of phishing, directory harvesting attacks and fraud and helps to control SPAM and enforcement of acceptable usage policies (AUP).

Web filtering
Our web filtering solutions can be integrated with your own Internet acceptable use policy to improve employee productivity and prevent Internet abuse.

Anti-virus protection
Computer viruses are responsible for more and more incidents of data loss and system downtime. We can provide sophisticated solutions to detect incoming viruses and protect your systems.

Spyware protection
Spyware can be downloaded without your users' knowledge. It then gathers information on Internet usage, posing a potential threat to your data and your business. We can scan your systems to detect spyware and eliminate the problem.

Trojan software protection
Back-door software can cause serious security concerns with its ability to capture passwords, data or even allow remote access to your desktop or server for unauthorised personnel.

Ultra-secure online data storage
The Ministry of Data is taking data security to new levels. We have acquired a number of cold war nuclear bunkers that now provide the ultimate protection for your critical data.
Click here for sign up form

Secondary data centre
To provide a high level of protection, we can store your data in tandem locations, each with fully-managed, highly-secure facilities for back-up and email.

Co-location
We provide a secure environment for the location and management of your data in co-location facilities outside the M25 in either purpose-built cold war nuclear bunkers or data centres in the UK, or through our matrix of data centres across Europe and Asia.

Coming Soon.....