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Please see below the answer to your request.
Questions and final response:
1. Cyber Security
· Budget: What is the allocated spend/budget relating to Cyber Security for 2021? N/A
· Security Breach: When was the last reported Security Breach detected? We have not had one
· Current supplier: Please provide the current Cyber Security Supplier. N/A
· Contract Description: Please provide me with a brief description of the overall contract. N/A
· Contract Duration: What is the duration of the contract and can you please also include any extensions this may include. N/A
· Contract Expiry Date: When does the contract expire? N/A
· Contract Review Date: When will the organisation be planning to review the contract? N/A
· Responsible Officer: Who within the organisation is responsible for the Cyber Security budget, please provide me with contact details including name, job title, contact number and email address? N/A
2. LAN/WAN
· Budget: What is the allocated spend/budget allocated for a network refresh across the LAN estate for 2021. Refresh in 2021 is not taking place
· Cisco End Of Life Support (Cisco 6500/4500): Do you have any Cisco switches reaching EOL support and when? N/A
· Current Manufacturers/Hardware brand: Please provide the current Network LAN Suppliers. Ducle
· Contract Description: Please provide me with a brief description of the overall contract. EOLP NGN Contract
· Contract Duration: What is the duration of the contract and can you please also include any extensions this may include. Expires Dec 2022
· Contract Expiry Date: When does the contract expire? Expires Dec 2022
· Contract Review Date: When will the organisation be planning to review the contract? In line with EOLP NGN Agreement
· Responsible Officer: Who within the organisation is responsible for the Network Infrastructure budget, please provide me with contact details including name, job title, contact number and email address? Sarah Taylor, Head of IT.
3. Cloud Infrastructure
· Budget: What is the allocated spend/budget relating to Cloud Infrastructure Initiatives across the estate for 20201. No budget yet set
· Current Cloud Service Provider: Please provide the current Cloud Service Provider Suppliers. N/A
· Contract Description: Please provide me with a brief description of the overall contract. N/A
· Contract Duration: What is the duration of the contract and can you please also include any extensions this may include. N/A
· Contract Expiry Date: When does the contract expire? N/A
· Contract Review Date: When will the organisation be planning to review the contract? N/A
· Responsible Officer: Who within the organisation is responsible for the Cloud Infrastructure Transformation budget, please provide me with contact details including name, job title, contact number and email address?
Sarah Taylor, Head of IT
4. Secure Remote Digital Working
· Budget: What is the allocated spend/budget relating to remote digital working for 2021. Not yet set
· Current Manufacturer/Hardware brand: Please provide the current Supplier. Various. Lenovo and Microsoft
· Contract Description: Please provide me with a brief description of the overall contract. N/A
· Contract Duration: What is the duration of the contract and can you please also include any extensions this may include. N/A
· Contract Expiry Date: When does the contract expire? N/A
· Contract Review Date: When will the organisation be planning to review the contract? N/A
· Responsible Officer: Who within the organisation is responsible for remote digital working budget, please provide me with contact details including name, job title, contact number and email address? Sarah Taylor, Head of IT
5 Tech Innovation/Analytics/Cost Monitoring Programme
· Do you outsource your Data Centres? No
· Responsible Officer: If yes who is responsible for managing existing Service Providers Outsourced Data Centre consumption charges. please provide me with contact details including name, job title, contact number and email address?
· What Data Analytics tool do you deploy to validate these charges against actual usage? No
· Responsible Officer: If NO who is responsible for managing existing Data Centres. please provide me with contact details including name, job title, contact number and email address? Property Services.
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