General Information Assurance Products and Services Initiative (GIPSI)
What is GIPSI?
The General Information Assurance Products and Services Initiative (GIPSI) is chaired by CSIA and brings together representatives from central and local Government, NHS, Criminal Justice Network, Industry, Commerce and Academia.
The responsibilities of GIPSI include:
- Facilitating the implementation of the UK Government strategy for IA (low assurance levels)
- Defining, capturing and promoting the public sector requirements for information assurance schemes and establishing the means to ensure that those requirements are met
- Monitoring (and where relevant seeking to influence) international IA schemes and standards
- Overseeing the work of CIPCOG; overview of the low assurance areas of the Defence INFOSEC Product Co–Operation Group (DIPCOG); and the Scottish Information Assurance Forum (SIAF)
The GIPSI requirements capture exercise is part of a wider programme of work being undertaken by the Cabinet Office, which will continue for the next few months, to capture information assurance requirements for products and services from the wider public sector and central Government.
As part of this exercise, CSIA has commissioned Software Box Ltd and CISCO to undertake a survey of public sector organisations. It is important that as many organisations as possible complete this survey to ensure that this is representative of the whole of the public sector.
The membership of GIPSI is reviewed on an annual basis and currently includes the following organisations:
- Central Sponsor for Information Assurance (CSIA)
- CESG
- Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI)
- Ministry of Defence (MoD)
- Department of Health (DH)
- Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
- Home Office
- Criminal Justice IT (CJIT)
- Office of Government Commerce Buying Solutions (OGCbs)
- tScheme
- Society of Information Technology (SOCITM)
- London Connects
- Strathclyde Police (representing SIAF)
- Eversheds
- HSBC
- University of Glamorgan
- Sapphire Technologies
- CISCO
- Software Box Ltd (SBL)
For further information about the work of GIPSI, please contact gipsi.enquiries@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk
