Case Study: UK Department for Health and Social Care secures rapid multi-cloud COVID-19 response with NCC Group

UK Department for Health and Social Care secures 15,000+ users and hundreds of cloud workloads in 12 months with NCC Group

The UK Department for Health and Social Care faced the urgent national-scale challenge of rapidly building and securing its COVID-19 Test & Trace program. The mission was to break the chain of infection, which required protecting highly sensitive public health data on new cloud-based platforms and mega lab facilities from opportunistic and nation-state threat actors. NCC Group was engaged to provide agile cloud cyber security and managed detection and response services to meet this unprecedented threat.

NCC Group delivered a full spectrum of cyber security services, including securing the design and build of the multi-cloud environment with a tailored security control framework and Infrastructure as Code. The vendor provided continuous monitoring and incident response, enabling secure access for over 15,000 users with no significant data leaks. As a result, the Test & Trace cloud environment achieved some of the highest security scores when measured by the AWS Well-Architected Framework and the Microsoft Cloud Assessment Framework, making it a national multi-cloud collaborative achievement.

UK Department for Health and Social Care