The accreditation means the company’s unified gateway facility is certified to secure information classified to the federal government's In confidence, Protected, and Highly Protected levels. It follows multi-million investments by Cybertrust in people and infrastructure in Canberra and follows a lengthy evaluation process.
The company provides information security services to more than 50 Federal Government departments and agencies with more than 80,000 end-users. The Unified Gateway actively manages more than 200 firewalls and processes an average of two million emails everyday.
As part of the certification process, DSD three key areas – people, technology and processes – at the unified gateway. The DSD provides information security services to the government and defence forces to standards set out in the Australian Government Information and Communications Technology Security Manual - known as ACSI 33.
Cybertrust has focused heavily on the Australian market and has invested heavily in both in the unified gateway and in upgrading its Bruce Data Centre in Canberra to become a fully functional Security Operations Centre – the third in the company’s global follow-the-sun infrastructure.
Opening the SOC a month ago, the company said it was seeking to fill 15 new positions across the Asia Pacific as part of an expansion program in the region, including 10 new high-level security staff in Canberra.
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