Service Resilience - Capability Assessment Tool

Service Resilience -Capability Assessment Tool

SR-CAT is our solution to the lack of consistent methodology to assure cyber-resilience of smart services.


An assurance framework for resilient smart services

Provides a methodology to assure optimisation of the operational risks by assessing cyber-resilience capabilities of smart services right from procurement stage


A benchmark to assess smart service resilience

Risk based assessment benchmark that can be consistently applied across smart services for identifying and recommending appropriate and proportionate resilience measures


10 steps to cyber resilience for business continuity

Defines 10 simple, easy to implement and achievable cyber-resilience compliance requirements for the supply-chain while procuring smart services


Automated self-assessment for third party and service providers

Provides an easy to use adoptable tool for supply-chain to self-assess their compliance to 10 steps to cyber resilience of their smart services within the procurement framework

What problems does SR-CAT solve in the smart service ecosystem of a digitally enabled city?


City
Authority

Manages the accountability of risks and liabilities of connected services throughout supply-chain

Enables translation of complex and changing guidelines into simple risk-based actions

Empowers procurement officers to purchase assured cyber-resilient and secure services by design

Improves business continuity planning across supply-chain that aligns towards citywide resilience goals


Service
Operators

Verifies and ensures that the services are at an acceptable level of cyber-resilience

Provides an easy and consistent method to assess security and resilience across services

Allows them to keep up with changing requirements and standards

Offers decision support to balance cyber capability with operational risks


Governing Organizations

Offers consistent benchmark for connected service resilience across organizations

Enables credible assurance for procurement of connected services.

Provides easy method of operationalising and improving guidelines

Offers a roadmap for awareness and education of personnel

SR-CAT encapsulates a market need in the IoT smart street space nicely and adds much-needed clarity in this space. SR-CAT's vision of creating amendments to procurement guides for IoT infrastructure, to increase cyber resilience, will add a lot of value to smart city services
Ian Smith
Crowthrone Technologies Ltd.

SR-CAT meets a crucial need of the market that of increasing the cyber resilience capabilities of IoT services of the smart cities. By ensuring that IoT services procured comply to the NCSC guidelines, end users such as local boroughs, can recap the benefits of smart services whilst having the confidence that cyber resilience of the city has been assured
Dr Richard Smith
Cyber Security School Associate Head
De Montfort University Leicester