Government cybersecurity assurance
Robustness and oversight of cyber security assurance programs within government departments for critical systems.
3 items
1 source
3 inquiries
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Government cybersecurity assurance has been flagged across 1 independent accountability source:
3 inquiry recs
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Inquiry Recommendations (3)
27 — NOMIS alert for sensitive security information
Recommendation: NOMIS should include a facility for an alert to appear if information is held by the Security Department on prisoners which could affect their management but which is too sensitive for wider dissemination. An officer at the grade of senior …
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P1-45 — NPAS helicopter datalink encryption standards
Recommendation: Steps be taken to ensure that the airborne datalink system on every NPAS helicopter observing an incident which involves one of the other emergency services defaults to the National Emergency Service user encryption.
Words of: HM Government (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 Report: Government Response, January 2020 (published on GOV.UK 21 January 2020)
Gov response: The Chair recommended steps be taken to ensure airborne data systems on every National Police Air Service (NPAS) aircraft observing an incident which involves one of the other emergency services defaults to the National Emergency …
Noted
P1-8 — Security as corporate responsibility
Recommendation: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust should treat security as a corporate not a local departmental responsibility.
Words of: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, Assurance statement on the implementation of the Phase 1 Fuller Inquiry recommendations, dated 23 February 2024, Trust Board paper presented by Miles Scott, Chief Executive, to the meeting of 29 February 2024
Gov response: The Trust now complies with this recommendation in full on the following basis: • The Trust has strengthened its security responsibility arrangements significantly since the Police informed the Trust of Fuller’s mortuary-related crimes in December …
Accepted