Decision Maker: Strategic Director (People and Transformation)
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Dacorum operates and supports its own Data
Centre infrastructure located at Council owned sites within the
borough. Dacorum operates a design made of physical firewall
devices protecting the Councils infrastructure. Existing firewalls
are becoming unsupported and failing to replace them places DBC at
unacceptable risk of cyber attack.
To award contract for the supply, installation
and support of
Enterprise Firewall Devices for a 5 year period to Charterhouse
Voice
The existing devices are due to be replaced as
part of the ICT 5 year hardware refresh cycle. We considered
options to remain with the existing devices but this is not viable
as they are due to be end of life very soon, the other option
considered was to replace them with supported devices.
Publication date: 12/09/2022
Date of decision: 12/09/2022
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