Information Security MOT

A fixed price consultancy package giving straightforward and concise guidance on what your organisation needs to do to meet its compliance needs, protect its sensitive information and reputation.

The Information Security MOT Is for organisations who recognize they need to do something to protect their reputation, improve data security , meet legal and compliance olibligations (such as the Data Protection Act), but are unsure of what they need to do, what is involved and how much it is going to cost.

Data Eliminate provides tailored and frank advice to senior executives and business leader son their orgnisation's current information security status, and what is required in terms of improvement to get your organisation to where it wants to be. Many customers want to counter specific security weaknesses or achieve a particular status or level of security.

Our experts are business people who have experience in balancing security considerations and practical business needs. They review all relevent aspects of your business inlcuding its staff, human resources, physical assets, contracts and agreements and its IT infrastructure.

We then give a high level assessment of your organisations current information security status and its relative strenghts and weaknesses. We advise you on how to meet your information security objectives and prioritise improvements that can be made. This involves scoping, planning and estimating the costs of the work involved. This report can be delivered verbally with outline notes or more comprehensively in wirting depending on the needs of the customer.

In many cases, we can provide details of accredited suppliers who can implement more detailed legal, IT, construction or other types of work required.

Price Guide

In line with the straighforward nature of our service, we provide these prices as a guide. Please call us to discuss your particular needs.

• Organisation with 25-50 Employees Price from £3,000
• Organisation with 250 employees - Price from £5,000
• Organisation with 1,000 Empoyees on one site £10,000
• Over 1,000 employees - please call 0845-1234-400

The price guide assume all employees are based at the same or neighbouring sites in the UK.

The recognition that people, not computers, present the greatest security risk is central to the approach.

We provide a service - proportionate and appropriate to the particular needs of your organisation which normally comprises the following elements:

• Risk Assessment of the likelihood of a data breach from your organisation and its potential consequences.
  
  
• Guidance on your regulatory compliance responsibilities and duties of care.
  
  
• Analysis of the business processes in your organisation which involve sensitive data.
  
  
• Determination of the practical ways in which a data breach is most likely to occur.
  
  
• Identification of anticipated legal, scientific or other developments which may affect the information security approach of your organisation moving forward.
  
  
• Setting up of an information security policy and practices with in-built checks and balances.
  
  
• Integration of these information security practices into the way your organisation operates on a daily basis in a non-disruptive manner.
  
  
• Advice on data destruction and IT equipment recycling alternatives including the merits and demerits of existing methods and technology.
  
  
• Contingency planning for a potential data breach incorporating an introduction to Public Relations and crisis management techniques.

A Practical Information Security Approach Based on Your Business Needs

Data Eliminate's approach is proportionate and appropriate to your organisation's particular situation.

• The industry and market in which you operate.
  
  
• Your IT infrastructure and assets - software and hardware.
  
  
• Your operating location(s) and the layout of your premises.
  
  
• Your management structure and employee roles.
  
  
• The nature of the data you keep.
  
  
• The type of people who have access to it.
  
  
• Your budget.

Please contact us to arrange an initial consultation.

Ensure the secure disposal of information, all personal information should be securely destroyed: electronic media by degaussing.  Where possible, a CCTM approved service should be used.

SOCTIM, Data Handling Guidelines for Local Authorities, Nov 2008