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Next Generation Networks & Services: Secure and Future-Proofed

Trent T Holmes - General Manager

Network Solutions

2 / 2 / How technology from Thales is used in the UK

…Every day, all over the UK, people rely on Thales’s real-time information systems

u  Government u  Defence u  Cyber (Government Advisors) u  Aerospace u  Telecoms u  Banking u  Finance u  Energy u  Rail transport u  Air travel

3 / 3 / Thales UK

Thales has 8,000 people in more than 40 locations in

the UK 2010 Sales: £1.5Bn Group Revenue:

£13.1Bn

Design Innovation

National State of the Art Network Operations

Running Digital Regions Network

Technology Agnostic

Local Tailor Made Services

Built and Operating the Digital Region Network

Total network length 1,200Km

1589 street cabinets. DRL is delivering PSN

Services Today

PSN Leader

4 / 4 / Superfast Broadband – Why are we doing this?

u  The following are extracts from ‘Britain’s Superfast Broadband Future’ (December 2010)

£ Access to broadband can also help encourage greater innovation

£ Superfast broadband can help improve the quality and delivery of public services

£ Superfast broadband can also play an important role in quality and delivery of healthcare services

£ Tele-working can l  Reduce barriers to entering the labour market

l  Potentially contribute to the reduction in traffic congestion and carbon emissions

£ Address the digital divide

u  Government intervention is not just about cables in the ground £ So the challenge is how to deliver these benefits safely

5 / 5 / Thales UK

Total  numbers  of  schools  that  will  connect  to  the  DRL  network:  Barnsley  –  94  schools  Doncaster  –  80  schools  Rotherham  –  77  schools  Sheffield  –  169  schools  

All  4  Local  AuthoriEes  in  South  Yorkshire  already  have  PSN  services  across  the  network    

 

When  completed  it  will  cover  a  populaEon  of  over    1.3million  ciEzens,  546,000  homes  and    40,000  businesses.    

How  Thales  &  Digital  Region  are  transforming  the  South  Yorks  Region  To  establish  South  Yorkshire  as  the  leading  digital  region  in  the  EU    

To  support  Economic  Development,  Social  Inclusion  and  the  efficient  delivery  of  public  sector  services  in  the  region      

Bakersfield  Court,  a  sheltered  housing  accommodaEon  in  Rotherham.  All  people  who  took  part  were  over  the  age  of  65  and  had  between  no  and  very  liYle  experience  of  using  the  Internet  

The  first  phase  of  the  network  build  is  on  track  to  be  completed  in  December  2011.    

This  will  include  545km  of  new  fibre  opEc  duct,  36  exchanges,  and  1,359  street  cabinets.    

6 / 6 / Secure and Future Proofed Networks – Objective

u  As part of the UK Government's “Public Services Network” (PSN), all IT networks operating across the public sector need to comply with a common framework allowing them to share services

u  The Public Services Network will enable collaboration - and substantial cost savings - across 4 million employees from government departments, agencies and local authorities

u  Eg: Yorkshire Accreditation Programme

u  Assured the Cabinet Office of the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the PSN Cyber solution

7 / 7 / What does this mean?

u Schools Online u  125 schools are connected to the Digital

Region network, in total 420 will be. u  Approximately 45,000 school children have

access to superfast broadband

u Improved healthcare services

u Confidential Tax Returns

u Public engage in secure environment

“Every community in the UK will have access to superfast broadband by 2015” Jeremy Hunt - Culture Secretary

8 / 8 / Secure and Future Proofed Networks – Requirements?

u  Fully manned Network Operations

Centre (NOC), operating 24/7, E2E network management/fault restoration

u  Fully managed Incident, Event and Problem management structure and escalation processes

u  Fully manned Security Operations Centre (SOC), offering network protective monitoring capability

9 / 9 / Secure and Future Proofed Networks – Requirements?

u  Tried and tested Security processes

and procedures in place to ensure continuity and maintenance of security implementation

u  Well established Change management process to ensure the necessary due care and diligence is taken with network configuration changes

u  Security and Network availability are at the centre of the Network architecture and technical and non-technical security controls

10 / 10 / Secure and Future Proofed Networks – Requirements?

u  PSN DNSP Service - CESG Pan

Govt Accredited and PSNA compliant

u  PSNSP IL3 IP Service - CESG Pan Govt Accredited and PSNA compliant

u  DNSP Service - 99.98% availability

u  Ensure the Network Security developed and maintained in accordance with CAS(T) certification and PSN compliance requirements

11 / 11 / Secure and Future Proofed Networks – Challenges

u How can we motivate vendors to invest in the development of PSN assured products?

u How do we manage the Cyber aspects of Cloud computing ?

u How do we maintain Cyber security in an instant access environment?

12 / 12 / Secure and Future Proofed Networks – Summary

u  Business understands the level of investment needed to be part of the PSN community and the benefits for doing so.

u  PSN is a positive step towards setting a minimum acceptable level of security for public sector customers.

u  Thales and DRL have already successfully delivered PSN in this challenging and heavily regulated environment.

u  To generate further growth it is essential that the regulation & governance issues are tackled to open up the market at same speed as industry grows.

u  Embed Security into the Public Sector engagement with the public.

Thales with DRL is one of the first telecommunications

providers in the UK to receive CESG Assured Service

(Telecoms) Scheme CAS(T) Certification