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; the Defence INFOSEC Product Co-Operation Group (DIPCOG [External website]); and the Scottish Information Assurance Forum (SIAF)
The membership of GIPSI is reviewed on an annual basis and currently includes the following organisations:
- Central Sponsor for Information Assurance (CSIA)
- CESG
- National Infrastructure Security Coordination Centre (NISCC)
- 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)
- T–Scheme
- 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 membership of GIPSI and the work that it does, please contact gipsi.enquiries@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk
