Neighbouring firms help to make county a centre of cyber excellence
A NEW range of services have recently been launched bringing together the IT expertise of two of Gloucestershire’s emerging tech firms to help businesses arm themselves against cyber-crime.
The Cyber Security Associates’ (CSA) Security and Intelligence Operations Centre (SIOC) has many tools at its disposal, but in a simulated test to guests at its official launch it showed just how it could deliver simple effective lessons for any size business. A test email revealed just how easy it can be to expose potential weaknesses.
Richard Graham, MP for Gloucester and one of the Government’s trade envoys, said: “Cyber-crime is a real and growing threat to business in Gloucestershire and the UK economy.
“What you are doing here at the CSA SIOC will help companies right across the county and beyond with their security and what you are doing will make a significant contribution to Gloucestershire as a centre of cyber excellence.”
CSA is the company running the SIOC and is working with its with key partner and near neighbour Severnside Software Ltd, also known as SSL, the business IT support specialists.
Its Quedgeley nerve centre at Waterwells Business Park is manned by “young and talented analysts who have a passion for cyber security, who are trained to spot unusual behaviour and stop the cyber threat”.