GLASGOW, Scotland, June 24, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
CloudSure
Environment Is Approved for Public Sector
Cloud company iomart (AIM: IOM), has announced that it has been
awarded Pan Government Accreditation (PGA) by the Cabinet Office
for its CloudSure environment.
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The PGA certification confirms that iomart can process OFFICIAL
information at the very highest level of security assurance. The
service is available as PSN Private Cloud and a PSN Private
Community Cloud or a public cloud accessed from the internet. PSN
and non-PSN environments can be connected by an assured bridge on a
per-customer base.
Central and local government departments will no longer need to
seek an independent assessment of iomart's CloudSure environment
and associated services. The accreditation scope also covers
infrastructure and storage components and includes iomart's email
service, backup and its supporting control panel.
Neil Johnston, Group Technical
Operations Director for iomart, said: "Achieving Pan Government
Accreditation demonstrates that we can provide complete data
assurance for all government departments. A full assessment has
been made of our data centre infrastructure and our management of
risk and we have been judged to operate to the highest security
requirements and best business practice. Combined with our
substantial investment in gaining a range of UKAS certified
accreditations CloudSure can offer a safe and secure hosting
environment for the whole of the public sector."
CloudSure is iomart's award-winning cloud computing environment
providing elastic, scalable and on-demand cloud services from Tier
1 infrastructure. The CloudSure portfolio includes public, private
and hybrid cloud solutions as well as virtual desktops and bare
metal servers topped with a managed services wrap.
The PGA service is assured by means of ISO 27001 and an IT
Health CHECK. It has also undergone a review by a CESG IA
Architect.
iomart is an accredited supplier to G-Cloud and the Scottish
Government Hosting Services Framework and its ICT defences have
been assessed under the Cyber Essentials scheme as satisfactorily
protecting against commodity cyber threats.
As well as ISO 27001 iomart also carries the further UKAS and
APMG-International certified accreditations ISO 9001; ISO 20000;
ISO 14001; and ISO 22301 and was one of the first cloud companies
to operate to the recently introduced ISO 27018 code of practice to
protect Personally Identifiable Information in the cloud.
iomart's independent public cloud consultancy SystemsUp works
with a number of public sector organisations including HS2 Limited,
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency and the Advisory Conciliation
and Arbitration Service.
About iomart
Award winning cloud company iomart Group PLC (AIM:IOM)
enables businesses and organisations to operate their online data
and IT environments safely and securely. Headquartered in
Glasgow, Scotland, iomart partners
with leading vendors such as VMware, Amazon, EMC, Microsoft,
Asigra, Arbor and Dell to offer customers a centrally managed,
controlled and completely agnostic set of hybrid, private and
public cloud platforms. By owning a global network and datacentre
infrastructure, iomart can support any customer who wishes to move
seamlessly between any and all of these platforms with a
consultative level of knowledge and expertise, delivering cloud
services to meet exact business needs. For more information
visit http://www.iomart.com
Contact:
Jane Robertson
PR Manager
jane.robertson@iomart.com
+44(0)141-931-6400
@iomart
SOURCE iomart Group PLC