Tenant Engagement Platform
The Tenant Engagement Platform (‘TEP’) empowers local authorities and housing associations to effectively engage with their tenants and residents in a secure online environment. It supports the role of Resident Engagement Officers and Tenant Resident Associations (TRAs) and has engaging presentation inspired by popular social media platforms.
Features
- Collaborative spaces for neighbourhood areas, topics and communities
- Personalised home feed for tenants based on their interests
- Intuitive editor for sharing content, images and documents with tenants
- Threaded commenting for organic discussion and engagement
- Integrated notification management enables tenants to set their preferences
- Approval process for residents to create/join Tenant Resident Associations
- Polls creation and deployment to all tenants or targeted groups
- Create public and/or registered tenant surveys (e.g. a STAR survey)
- Integrated map features enables tenants to pinpoint hotspot areas
- Engagement dashboard for analysis of popular topics with CSV export
Benefits
- A new digital channel for resident involvement and participation
- Increase the sense of approachability for your housing association
- Easily publish and share help and support resources with tenants
- Capture feedback and address tenant concerns before they escalate
- Increase resident satisfaction, trust and sense of empowerment
- Reassure residents and tenants their voice and opinions are valued
- Support community self-management and work of Tenant Resident Associations (TRAs)
- Easily demonstrate ‘you said’ and ‘we did’ to residents
- Readily assess tenant engagement by demographic, community and locality
- Look and feel can be customised to your organisation’s brand
Pricing
£4,950 a licence a year
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 11
Service ID
2 0 0 1 8 3 9 1 0 5 3 3 1 6 1
Contact
Cyber Media Solutions Ltd.
Tony Bonser
Telephone: 01785 222350
Email: enquiries@cyber-media.co.uk
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- No
- Cloud deployment model
- Private cloud
- Service constraints
- No.
- System requirements
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- Web browser
- Internet / data connection
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- Target response times are summarised as follows. Critical Priority Level: 2 hours, High Priority Level: 4 hours, Medium Priority Level: 1 day, Low Priority Level: 2 days. Support is available Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm (excluding Bank Holidays).
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
-
We operate a universal support offer for all clients identified in our SLA:
Critical priority issue (system unavailable): 2 hours
High priority issue (partially unusable, significantly affecting operation): 4 hours
Medium priority issue (aspect causing difficulty): 1 day
Low priority issue (a general question): 2 days
Support is provided at a standard cost as identified in our rates card.
We have a dedicated product support team that provide professional account management and support to clients. - Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
- We provide high quality onsite and online training, accompanied with documentation.
- Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
- End-of-contract data extraction
- Our product features powerful reporting functionality for data extracts. We will also support the user with data migration and extraction at contract end.
- End-of-contract process
- We will provide a complete CSV extract of service data and arrange for secure transfer to the user via an agreed secure method.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
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- Internet Explorer 11
- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari 9+
- Application to install
- No
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- Yes
- Differences between the mobile and desktop service
- The platform is fully responsive and has been designed using 'Mobile-First' methodology to ensure all key functions are available to users of smaller devices.
- Service interface
- No
- API
- No
- Customisation available
- Yes
- Description of customisation
- The platform is tailorable to individual service need in terms of features and user account permissions. The platform can also be 'skinned' with a bespoke design tailored to your organisation's individual brand and presentation requirements.
Scaling
- Independence of resources
- We own and operate our infrastructure in an industry leading UK datacentre. Our infrastructure features robust hardware redundancy provision and an appropriate level of server hardware is provided that exceeds demand requirements and with built in contingency. Compute resources are actively monitored, allocated and controlled to ensure service is maintained.
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
- A comprehensive range of service usage metrics can be provided by the Audience Engagement Platform (AEP). For example, number of interactions, survey responses and metrics on active engagement processes.
- Reporting types
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- Real-time dashboards
- Reports on request
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
- United Kingdom
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- No
- Datacentre security standards
- Supplier-defined controls
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Penetration testing approach
- In-house
- Protecting data at rest
-
- Physical access control, complying with another standard
- Encryption of all physical media
- Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
- Equipment disposal approach
- Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- Data may be extracted from the platform in CSV format.
- Data export formats
- CSV
- Data import formats
- CSV
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Data protection within supplier network
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- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
-
The in service availability of our hosting has been, and is planned to be, better than 99.95%
We operate a transparent SLA. In all cases the times indicated are targets and we will make best endeavours to meet or exceed these targets. - Approach to resilience
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We own and operate our own product infrastructure in an industry leading datacentre with ISO 27001 accreditation. The datacentre is located in a former Bank of England bullion vault in central Manchester with highly resilient architecture to provide exceptional reliability and system uptime.
Cyber Media uses highly resilient Dell hardware for all physical servers connected using Cisco architecture with multiple redundant connections connected to the backbone network. The network is also multi-homed, has no single point of failure and utilises multiple 10Gbps DWDM MPLS ring networks which enter the facility diversely and separately, connecting to two separate POPs in London and Southampton to maximise performance. - Outage reporting
- System maintenance and upgrades are performed outside of business hours. Customers are informed of any planned service outage in advance via email. In the event of unplanned outage, customers will receive a report on the cause of the outage and its remediation.
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
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- 2-factor authentication
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Other
- Other user authentication
- IP restricted and time-sensitive access is also offered to all our clients.
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
-
The product features secure account management features that enables configuration of user permissions throughout the system to restrict access to management interfaces (and data) by role.
In line with our Information Security Management System, all support channel users must be pre-registered by authorised contacts in order to raise support tickets. - Access restriction testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Management access authentication
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- 2-factor authentication
- Username or password
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users contact the support team to get audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users contact the support team to get audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- How long system logs are stored for
- User-defined
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- No
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Other security certifications
- Yes
- Any other security certifications
- Department of Health and Social Care IGSoC supplier reference 8HP72
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- No
- Security governance approach
-
We have a comprehensive approach to security governance which we manage through an Information Security Management System developed in line with ISO 27001 and Government Cyber Essentials best practice.
Our Information Security Management System is annually assessed via the Department of Health and Social Care's Information Governance Toolkit (Supplier reference 8HP72). Our overall score was 95% for 2017-18.
We are actively working towards Government Cyber Essentials Plus and formal ISO 27001 accreditation. - Information security policies and processes
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We operate an Information Security Management System developed in line with ISO 27001 best practice.
Our Information Security Policy (CM 0003 - Information Security Policy) is supplemented with detailed security policies and procedures that all staff receive training on, including:
• 0004 - Policy on Transfer and Receipt of Personal or Sensitive Information
• 0019 - Policy on Visitors to Cyber Media
• 0030 - Policy on the Use and Disclosure of Personal and Sensitive Information
• 0035 - Change Management and Control Policy
• 0038 - Internal ISMS Audit Policy
• 0041 - Access Control Policy
• 0043 - Network Access Policy
• 0044 - Password Policy
• 0045 - Acceptable Use Policy
• 0051 - Network Security Policy
• 0052 - Remote Access Policy
• 0053 - Mobile Computing Security Policy
• 0054 - Remote Working Policy
• 0057 - Policy on Written Contracts and Information Governance Responsibilities
• 0065 - Information Security Incident Management Policy
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Supplier-defined controls
- Configuration and change management approach
-
We maintain detailed change logs for all our components and services.
Significant change must be assessed through compilation of a testing plan with clear acceptance criteria and security impact assessment via a Change Request Form.
The individual responsible for testing must be identified and briefed regarding the testing they will need to undertake.
The asset owner obtains approval for the change, taking into account any technical considerations, the costs of the exercise, the potential benefits and security impact.
Once the change request is approved by the Team Manager, approval is recorded and logged (RECF0101). - Vulnerability management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Vulnerability management approach
- Our infrastructure is scanned once per month using Nessus. All new software is risk assessed in line with our software management policy. Security patches are applied within 14 days of the update being made available by a vendor. To identify potential threats the NVD and CVE databases are regularly reviewed. Public facing applications are subject to third party pen tests. Our Cisco firewalls employ next generation firewall services to mitigate against vulnerabilities.
- Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
- We have a multilayer approach. At the network edge the firewall contains Cisco Next Generation Firewall services (IDS/IPS). This will alert to potential indicators of compromise. We also deploy system end point protection from Symantec offering a second layer of IDS/IPS.
- Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
-
We have an information security incident management policy (0065) that defines our response.
All staff will be made aware through their contract of employment, training and by their team manager of what is considered to be an incident.
Information Security weaknesses, events and incidents will be reported immediately by staff to the ISM as soon they are seen or experienced.
The ISM will also be responsible for closing out the incident. This includes reports to external authorities.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Pricing
- Price
- £4,950 a licence a year
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
- Free trial available
- No