Government Connect is a pan-government programme providing an accredited and secure network between central government and every local authority in England and Wales.  The network is known as GCSx (Government Connect Secure Extranet).

There are 28 unique areas that need to be addressed in order to become CoCo compliant by the end of March 2009, unless an exemption is submitted.

Dataplex are unique placed to assist LA’s to achieve CoCo compliance and are currently working with a number of LA’s to achieve this.  Our services and product solutions are able to deliver against all the areas considered the CoCo controls through CESG approved software and CLAS consultants.

Based upon our partner and product portfolio, Dataplex are typically being engaged in the folllowing unique areas for assisting our clients achieve CoCo compliance:

Virtualisation

Remote/Mobile Working

Two factor authentication

Disk encryption

Security products

Voice over IP (VoIP)