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Prism Infosec Statement on NPCC Police CyberAlarm

Operated by the National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC) and Pervade Software, the Police CyberAlarm service is a free tool to assist organisations with monitoring malicious cyber activity.  The service helps to detect and provide regular reports of suspected malicious activity, enabling organisations to respond to potential cyber attacks. 

The NPCC and Pervade Software engaged Prism Infosec as an independent cyber security partner to review the security of the Police CyberAlarm solution in late 2020 and again in 2021 as part of an ongoing programme of information assurance.

Prism Infosec’s testing to date has identified that the Police CyberAlarm service demonstrates resilience to common and more sophisticated attacks. Given the approach taken and the responsiveness to any findings presented by Prism Infosec, it is clear the Police and Pervade Software are taking the cyber security of this service seriously and working hard to provide a strong service offering, whilst minimising the attack surface of the tool itself.

Prism Infosec would encourage organisations who currently do not use any security monitoring or alerting services to consider Police CyberAlarm to help protect your environment from the threat of ongoing cyber-attacks. 

For further information on Police CyberAlarm, visit the website.