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The Department For Culture Media & Sport

Development and Maintenance of the TBEST Scheme To address Technical Security assurance within the Telecommunications Industry

R&DCPV 73000000
Value£96k
Deadline7 Jul 2016
Published26 Jan 2017
RegionLondon
Timeline
Published 26 Jan 2017ClosedCloses 7 Jul 2016
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£96ktotal contract value
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this tender£0£561k

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The brief

The TBEST accreditation scheme supports controlled, bespoke and intelligence-led security testing for and improves resilience against cyber-attacks.

The TBEST test mimics behaviours of threat actors assessed by Government and commercial intelligence providers as posing a threat to Communication Service Providers.

TBEST focuses on sophisticated and persistent attacks on critical systems and essential services, with priority given to the systems identified by DCMS as systematically important.

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