ConsortiQ, a drone provider, is accredited with the Cyber Essentials security standard. This follows assessment by IASME (Information Assurance for Small to Medium Enterprises), for protection of data during use of UAV based services.
IASME are among accreditation bodies appointed by the UK Government to deliver the Cyber Essentials scheme, which is created to help organisations protect themselves against common cyber-attacks. ConsortiQ adds that it will be audited periodically to ensure compliance with the standard.
John Gore, Project Manager and Platform Specialist at ConsortiQ said: “At ConsortiQ, much of the work we do for our clients involves utilising the use of a drone to collect large amounts of data, which we then process and analyse to deliver information for making critical business decisions. In our growing internet age, ensuring security and protection of this virtual data is of vital importance to us and our clients.
“We work hard to implement thorough policies and working practices that keep our business at the top of its game when it comes to ensuring all the data we collect is handled and stored in the safest possible way. Myself, and everyone at ConsortiQ is proud to have achieved the Government set Cyber Essentials Security accreditation as it reflects the level of importance that we place on keeping our customers data safe and secure.”
ConsortiQ adds that it regularly provides public sector bodies with training and consultancy for the industrial use of UAVs, as well as delivering drones as a service to solve business problems. ConsortiQ have proprietary software and hardware for flight planning, and logging and asset management to help their clients decipher key findings from data that is captured with a drone. Following the Cyber Essentials security guidelines ensures that the integrated drones solution provider can continue to develop this software in-house without worry of security breaches, the firm adds. Visit http://consortiq.com/.
About ConsortiQ Ltd
Incorporated in March 2015, it’s bringing together three drone companies and six individuals. With a history of safety cases for multi-million dollar US movie productions, and filming music videos; ConsortiQ lwas a merger of UAViate Ltd, Cloud12 Ltd and UAV Airways Ltd. ConsortiQ still retain the original brands as ‘shop fronts’ and trading names although they have been wholly subsumed into ConsortiQ.
