EADS Wales WARP

The EADS Wales WARP is a Warning, Advice and Reporting Point aiming to serve the local government, local authority and strategic partners in Wales. The EADS Wales WARP is a not for profit service.

A WARP is a community based service where members can receive and share the latest advice on information security threats, incidents and solutions. WARPs are part of the Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure’s (CPNI) information sharing strategy, with the aim of reducing the risk of malicious attacks on Information Systems. WARPs have shown to be effective in increasing information security through greater communication of alerts and warnings, incident reporting, and improving awareness.

EADS Defence & Security Systems Ltd (EADS DS) is the UK “Systems House”, offering Integrated Systems, Solutions and Services. Our experts work in the areas of information systems and networks, integrated intelligence solutions, critical infrastructure protection, battlespace management systems, border control and surveillance, large event security, and global security.

With a strategy of designing Information Assurance and Security into our solutions from day one, and our innovative approach to delivering tailored Lead Systems Integration solutions, we are partner of choice to organisations requiring secure solutions. This is proven by our key roles in strategically important initiatives such as the MoD Defence Information Infrastructure (Future), and Communities and Local Government’s FiReControl projects.

Our recognition as experts in Information Security means that members of the EADS Wales WARP community can be confident that their ICT systems are highly secured.

Filtered Warnings Service

The aim of this service is to provide the EADS Wales WARP community with filtered e-mail alerts. Members will complete an online ‘secure’ profile of their information needs that will be broadly based on their hardware and software configuration, which will identify their areas of interest. Alerts and advisories from a number of trusted sources, including EADS itself, will be filtered based on the applicability to individual member profiles, and then disseminated to members via e-mail in a timely manner.

Advice Brokering Service

The Advice Brokering Service provides the EADS Wales WARP members with the ability to set up a discussion amongst the community in a secure environment. Members are able to ask other community members for advice on security issues or offer good practice guidelines based on their own experiences.

This discussion would be monitored by the EADS Wales WARP operator, who would encourage discussions, draw in members with relevant expertise, and summarise any areas of interest. Summaries would then be issued as News through the Filtered Warning Service. This discussion can also trigger the EADS Wales Warp operator to identify and research topics of familiar concern, and locate sources of solutions.

Trusted Sharing Service

The success and the effectiveness of the EADS Wales WARP service is based upon the community and the relationships between its members. The Trusted Sharing Service creates a trusted environment that encourages the sharing of sensitive information, such as incidents or problems experienced. EADS Wales WARP members must trust that the information that they share with the community will not cause them harm. The EADS Wales WARP operator will anonymise any compromising elements of a report before sharing it with the rest of the community. Sharing information can help members to take timely preventative action, benefiting from the experience of other members.