Capita Security Advisory and Testing Services

Many organisations may be at risk of attack – perhaps unwittingly - because they simply do not know the strength and maturity of their cyber security estate and have no certain way of ascertaining it.Regular security tests can help reduce such threats from both external hackers and saboteurs within the organisation itself, but they do not supply a full or detailed picture of potential vulnerabilities.

Organisations are not able to assess the risk they are currently exposed to, nor even identify the level they consider acceptable to their business.

Capita’s aligned Security Testing and Consultancy practice delivers the total picture of cyber security status that organisations need.

We can design a bespoke approach to identifying security needs that fit your business, budgets and levels of security awareness.

We use advanced scanning techniques that combine process assessment and vulnerability identification to give a complete end-to-end view.

We can alternatively apply these techniques independently for the fastest result.

Our capabilities can be split into three main areas a) implementation, support and audit using industry best practice standards, b) security testing and technical assessment, and c) threat prevention.

Three steps to the clearest view of your security level

Assessing your needs. We offer our capabilities as discrete, stand-alone services, such as Internal Audits and Web Application Penetration Testing, or we can combine them as a powerful integrated solution.

Determining your security maturity. Using the industry-recognised Axelos Resilia tool enables us to map security maturity directly to your organisation’s IT delivery lifecycle. This means that areas of process vulnerability can be rapidly identified and remediated.

Finding your weak spots. We can assess the vulnerability of your external network remotely and within hours. By conducting non-intrusive scans of your organisation’s externally facing network, we can identify the gaps and areas of weakness that could leave you open to a hostile attack. Our team of accredited pen testers can then carry out a thorough and precisely targeted penetration test.

Why Capita for security testing?

We support our cyber security portfolio with a wide range of in-depth professional services.Our penetration testing, software testing, compliance, governance and threat analysis help you identify and understand the risks to your business and address them rapidly.We partner with Qualys and other market leading organisations in the cyber security field, enabling us to offer the appropriate technology on an individual basis and embed our solutions in ways that deliver the best results for customers.We offer fast, quality assessment, enabling our customers to rapidly identify risks and therefore remediate faster and more effectively.We provide aligned consultancy and security testing. The broad experience we’ve acquired means our customers benefit from the perspective and context that we bring to their cyber security issues, delivering a higher quality end product.

Network security
User education and awareness
Malware prevention
Controls on removable media
Secure configuration
The management of user privileges
Incident management
Monitoring
Home and mobile working

Capita Security Technology Management

Capita has the skills and expertise to help ensure you get the most out of your investments in technology in a number of areas. We can assist with licence management issues, help to install and configure, or even manage the entire lifecycle of the solution, in a broad range of security technology areas.

Capita cloud
security services

Wherever your staff are working, Capita’s cloud security services can protect them. These include email and web filtering, firewalls, and anti-virus protection. It’s a comprehensive and highly recommended solution for organisations reliant on mobile workers and flexible working practices.

Cloud & Hybrid Hosting SecurityCapita can deploy managed security technology in the cloud, on the customer premises or in our private cloud environment and manage everything centrally with the same robust management tools and processes.Whatever kind of environment you run, whether cloud-native, hybrid or legacy on-prem we can provide a flexible, comprehensive solution to encompass your requirements.Web and email filteringMalware attached to emails or embedded in websites is still a major threat, and cloud-based proxies have become the de facto standard for addressing these issues.But moving these services to the cloud does not remove the need for technical management: onboarding, troubleshooting and policy management are all challenges that stay with you when services move to the cloud.Our experienced technical staff can help manage these issues for you and ensure you get the best use and maximum return from these services.Boundary protection and firewallsThe capabilities of the modern firewall have evolved from simple network/traffic segmentation to the full unified threat management (UTM) stack, with a number of features that used to be the domain of separate systems like Intrusion Detection/Prevention, Anti-Malware, Web filtering and Sanboxing, now all being delivered from a single device.It is also possible to run these multi-faceted devices in a range of different environments: as a physical appliance, or as a virtual machine in either a public or private cloud environment.Capita has the skills and capability to manage the full stack of functionality across all the leading firewall vendors: Checkpoint, Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet and others.End point protectionAs businesses adapt to more flexible working practices securing the endpoint is taking on an ever-greater importance. Capita can support solutions from leading vendors such as McAfee, Symantec, Sophos, Ivanti and Microsoft to provide a wide range of endpoint management and endpoint protection functionality such as Anti-malware, policy enforcement, patch management encryption and more.e-safety for EducationSchools face the unique challenge of managing safeguarding requirements in the context of budget challenges, so need cost-effective solutions for managing risk in their IT environments. Capita has worked with education partners like C2k to develop specific solutions for the education sector that help solve many of these challenges.