01732 759725 18 NEWS : RESELLERS Home Office contract win for CGI CGI, the IT and business consulting company, has won a five-year, £95 million contract to help deliver user-centric technology solutions in support of the Home Office’s digital transformation agenda. As the Strategic Delivery Partner for the Home Office’s Police & Public Protection Technology (PPPT) portfolio, CGI will create an open and evolving ecosystem of partners featuring NTT DATA, Principle One, Infoshare, law enforcement specialists and SMEs. In line with Government ambitions, CGI expects SMEs to be awarded 30% of expenditure over the lifetime of the contract. cgi.com n The Service Desk Institute (SDI) has presented CGI with a 10-year 5* service desk award in recognition of the high levels of service and customer satisfaction achieved by its Bridgend service desk over the last 10 years. Digital risk protection service launched by Integrity360 Integrity360, the UK and Ireland’s largest independent cyber security services specialist, is targeting significant business growth with the launch of a 24/7 managed Digital Risk Protection Service. Powered by the SearchLight platform from threat intelligence provider Digital Shadows, the service proactively scans the open, deep and dark web for threats to a company’s data and reputation. Brian Martin, Head of Product, Strategy and Innovation for Integrity360, said: “Most security services focus on threats to organisations once they are on the doorstep or have already infiltrated the environment. However, there is a world of external digital risks and threats to organisations that can be extremely hard to monitor – and that’s the critical blind spot we aim to address with this service. “The new service provides constant vigilance in external risk visibility, but also reduces the noise from this high level of monitoring, ensuring real risks are dealt with rapidly, efficiently and effectively. This proposition, combining a leading managed service provider with a leading Digital Risk Monitoring platform, is quite unique within the Irish and UK markets.” Integrity360’s Digital Risk Protection Service can limit damage from data leakage with early detection of credentials or documents in online data stores, paste sites and criminal forums on the Dark Web. Offered as a standalone offering or integrated with Integrity360’s Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service, it also offers online brand protection by alerting an organisation if its identity is being used or impersonated maliciously and reduces the potential attack surface by identifying system vulnerabilities and misconfigurations within a company’s infrastructure and by providing tailored threat intelligence reports. www.integrity360.com Core to Cloud puts its trust in iboss Cyber security specialist Core to Cloud is bringing a Zero Trust Edge to its 100+ public and private sector customers in the UK through a new partnership with iboss. Patented and purpose built to protect organisations from breaches and data loss, iboss Zero Trust Edge prevents attacks by making applications, data and services inaccessible to cyber criminals while granting approved users secure access to protected resources from wherever they work. James Cunningham, CEO of Core to Cloud, said: “Most applications, data and services used by organisations today reside in the cloud, making them more accessible to cyber threat actors, while the shift to remote and hybrid working means legacy security and visibility are inadequate as they rely on the users being in the office to provide protection. We’re excited to be working with iboss supporting our customers’ ability to securely work from anywhere. Its industry leading, scalable cloud network security solution will help our customers address the security challenges of the modern workplace and benefit from a safe, secure and flexible IT infrastructure.” Paul Martini, CEO and Co-founder of iboss, said: “iboss reduces cyber risk while increasing user productivity by isolating sensitive applications and data and providing employees with direct connections to the resources they need to do their job. The granular design of our cloud network security platform gives trusted users the highest level of security from anywhere while its scalability can adapt to meet the needs of any public or private sector organisation.” www.coretocloud.co.uk www.iboss.com/ COBA named Sharp Connect Partner of the Year Sharp has named the Warrington-based specialist IT consultancy COBA Business Solutions as its Connect Partner of the Year for 2022/23. The Connect Partner Programme was set up by Sharp in 2018 to reach organisations that provide services complementary to its portfolio of technology products and services. COBA, which helps businesses with digital transformation, IT strategy, project management and analysis, has worked with Sharp as part of the Connect Partner programme for more than two years. Colin Bagley of COBA Business Solutions said: “We are delighted to be named Sharp’s Connect Partner of the Year for 2022/23. It has been a pleasure to work with Sharp through the Connect Partner programme and we look forward to developing our partnership across both the IT and construction sectors.” www.sharp.co.uk Top Poly partners Computacenter, CDW, SCC, proAV, Insight and Gamma were among the winners at Poly’s 2022 UK Channel Partner of the Year Awards. Insight was named overall Partner of the Year, following a 46% rise in sales of Poly products including big increases in video (403%), voice (126%), headsets (27%) and services (56%). Gamma and Computacenter won Partner of the Year Awards in the Voice and Video categories, respectively; CDW was named Enterprise Partner of the Year for strong headset sales across both corporate and public sectors; SCC picked up the Specialisation Partner of the Year Award across all three categories (voice, video and headsets); and proAV won the award for Growth Partner of the Year on the strength of year-on-year sales growth of 303% across the entire Poly product portfolio. www.Poly.com Colin Bagley Brian Martin James Cunningham, Core to Cloud Paul Martini, iboss
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