"Policing led - Business focused"
Police CyberAlarm Security Services
Helping your business monitor and report the malicious activity you face from the Internet.
As a business in the Eastern Region, you are eligible to sign up for Police CyberAlarm for free.
What are the benefits to my business?
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​What is Police CyberAlarm?
Police CyberAlarm is a free tool to help your business understand and monitor malicious cyber activity.
Police CyberAlarm acts like a "CCTV camera" monitoring the traffic seen by a member's connection to the internet. It will detect and provide regular reports of suspected malicious activity, enabling organisations to minimise their vulnerabilities.
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PCA is designed to protect personal data, trade secrets and intellectual property, and helps to build a national picture of new and emerging cyber threats. PCA acts as a monitoring system, and does not interfere with normal network operations.
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Vulnerability Scanning can be added and used to scan an organisations website and external IP addresses.
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As a business in the Eastern Region, provided that you meet the following criteria, you are eligible to sign up for Police CyberAlarm for free:
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A standalone firewall
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An Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) number
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Be responsible for the data which you are sharing
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Have a virtual or physical machine with 2GB RAM 2CPU Cores and 25GB HDD
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​** Police CyberAlarm is a police system and all data collected is collected by the police and not the Cyber Resilience Centre.**
How does Police CyberAlarm work?
​Once you become a Police CyberAlarm member you install a ‘CyberAlarm Virtual Server’ on your system which will be used to collect and process traffic logs identifying suspicious activity from your firewall/internet gateway.
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Police CyberAlarm is a monitoring system and does not interfere with normal network operations. It is a small virtual appliance outside the network and does not delay the traffic through the gateway and is installed with just one-click.
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Data collected is used to create regular reports on suspicious and potentially malicious activity seen by your business, as well as reports identifying threat trends seen across the network of Police CyberAlarm members. Your business can use this reported intelligence to update your defences to better protect your business from cyber threats.
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This data is also used by the Police to evaluate and track trends in cybercrime, and take enforcement action where appropriate.
Does it collect any personal data?
​No, the data collected by the system does not contain any content of the traffic. The system is designed to protect personal data, trade secrets and intellectual property.