Case Study: Lambeth Council achieves GCSX compliance and unified log management with NetIQ Sentinel Log Manager

Lambeth Beats the Compliance Deadline with Sentinel Log Manager

Lambeth Council, which provides online services to some 275,000 residents in a London borough, faced a tight government deadline to join the Government Connect Secure Extranet (GCSX) and meet a Code of Connection requiring 127 security controls. To avoid disruption to public services, the council needed a flexible, scalable and cost‑effective log‑management solution that could be deployed quickly across a mixed operating‑system server estate.

After a market survey the council selected NetIQ Sentinel Log Manager (with partner Securiam) for its flexibility, vendor support and value. The team designed, installed and rolled out the solution within 30 days, achieving GCSX compliance ahead of the deadline; the platform now provides secure government connectivity, a single point for collecting and analyzing logs, faster incident detection and is being extended across the rest of the infrastructure.

Lambeth Council

Ben Fountain

Information Security Officer