CNS Group Delivers Aegis Cyber Security Benchmarking Tool Free for All Socitm Members

Public sector organisations are operating in an evolving cyber security threat landscape. CNS Group’s award-winning cyber security benchmarking tool Aegis is now free from Socitm to all UK public sector organisations, enabling them make better decisions regarding the protection of their data.

London, UK, date, 2020 – CNS Group, a Six Degrees company, has today announced that Socitm members will be able to access its Aegis cyber security benchmarking tool free of charge. Aegis is a comprehensive cyber security benchmarking tool that provides organisations with a concise and contextual reporting mechanism for cyber security. Socitm members will be able to leverage Aegis to benchmark their cyber security and develop a roadmap to mitigate risks, enabling them to prioritise spend and enhance their cyber security postures.

CNS Group delivers its Aegis tool as a module of Socitm’s Improve service, which measures members’ ICT performance to identify what is working well and what needs investment and attention. Socitm elected to work with CNS Group due to the company’s demonstrable heritage of delivering holistic cyber security services to prominent organisations throughout the UK public sector, enabling them to maintain financial, operational and reputational resiliency whilst operating in today’s evolving cyber security threat landscape.

Rob Walton, Industry Director – Public Sector, said: “As cyber security breaches rise exponentially and threats become more advanced, organisations are struggling to deal with the sheer complexity and magnitude of attacks. With increased mobility, agility and flexibility in the modern office, attacks will become more frequent and increasingly more disruptive. At CNS Group we are committed to working with public sector organisations to enhance their cyber security postures, enabling them to meet their cyber security needs today whilst preparing for the challenges of the future. Throughout each engagement we elevate established frameworks to make them real to each organisation, aligning them to their unique risk appetites and industry requirements.”

Walton concluded: “We’re excited to work in partnership with Socitm to deliver Aegis to its members for free. We believe Aegis is a unique tool in the market, enabling organisations to continuously evaluate internal security tools and processes as well as behaviours, events and evolving threats. This intelligence allows organisations to transform the quality and value of short, medium and long-term planning and decision making.”

To learn more about Aegis and to register to use the tool for free, visit Socitm’s dedicated Aegis webpage.

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About CNS Group

CNS are an entirely UK based company of Cyber Security Specialists, who have been operating within the Public and Private sectors for nearly 20 years, providing advisory, testing and security solutions, meeting multiple standards of accreditation and providing dedicated government accredited Cyber Security services.