CAST Application Intelligence Platform Security
CAST helps identify and eliminate software related issues that disrupt their business. To do this, we employ system-level analysis that finds the critical issues undetected by traditional QA methods. At CAST, we operate on the foundation that fact-based analysis introduces and maintains managerial visibility, safety, predictability and higher productivity.
Features
- Supports over 30 programming languages including mainframe and databases
- Scaleable to enterprise level
- Complete managed service available
- Browser based reporting and analytics
- Full automation of application analysis process
- Compliant with Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) standards
- Full historical detail and trending of all analytics
- Assessment against OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities
- Assessment against CWE Top 25 Vulnerabilities
Benefits
- Measure security using CISQ quality standards
- Benchmark security across multiple user defined criteria
- Catch security defects early in the development lifecycle
- Increase re-use of safe components by monitoring architectural compliance
Pricing
£20,000 to £500,000 an instance a year
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 11
Service ID
4 9 4 3 1 3 4 7 0 6 4 4 3 8 1
Contact
CAST Software LTD
Mark James
Telephone: +44 7973943107
Email: m.james@castsoftware.com
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- No
- Cloud deployment model
- Public cloud
- Service constraints
- Support limited to certain programming languages and technologies. Latest list available on request.
- System requirements
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- VM configuration based on scope of engagement
- Installed OS on VM must be Windows
- Windows 7, 8, 10 or Server 2008, 2012
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- Mon-Fri only
- 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
- Bespoke to customer needs using the rate card
- Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
- User documentation is provided. Onsite and remote consultancy can be provided as per the rate card. Online training is also available.
- Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
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- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
- Data extraction is undertaken by CAST on request.
- End-of-contract process
- Contract end process is defined at the outset dependant on the customer use case.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- No
- Application to install
- Yes
- Compatible operating systems
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- Linux or Unix
- Windows
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- No
- Service interface
- No
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
- Reporting only
- API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
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- HTML
- API sandbox or test environment
- No
- Customisation available
- No
Scaling
- Independence of resources
- When required services can be supplied from dedicated servers and access restricted to IP addresses provided by the client
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- No
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- 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
- Another external penetration testing organisation
- Protecting data at rest
- Physical access control, complying with another standard
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
- Equipment disposal approach
- In-house destruction process
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- Data can be exported using the RestAPI.
- Data export formats
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- CSV
- Other
- Other data export formats
- XML
- Data import formats
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- CSV
- Other
- Other data import formats
- XML
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
- Data protection within supplier network
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- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
- Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- No guaranteed availability
- Approach to resilience
- Available on request
- Outage reporting
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- Controlled by Username and Password.
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
- Username or password
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time 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
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- Bureau Veritas
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 01/01/2015
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- Non cloud based services
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Other security certifications
- Yes
- Any other security certifications
- Pre-certified against security specifications from OMG/CISQ .
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
- ISO/IEC 27001
- Information security policies and processes
- Accredited to ISO27001. Managed by the Technical Director who reports directly to the CFO. Internally audited yearly.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Supplier-defined controls
- Configuration and change management approach
- Any modifications required (addition, modification, removal of components and/or services access), and which will have an impact on the operations, on the business, on the security or on the procedures is considered as a change and must follow procedures detailed in CAST Change Management policy.
- Vulnerability management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Vulnerability management approach
- Vulnerabilities are tracked and dealt with under several IT-ISMS procedures and policies - Incident and Non-Conformity Management Policy, Information Security Policy, Software Development Life cycle Policy. These are available on request.
- Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
- Hardware and software systems log security events: Connections, Failed connections, attempts to access unauthorised data. These events are monitored by the IT team. Admin access to the systems is limited to identified members of the IT team through using non generic admin accounts. All access is logged and reviewed.
- Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
- Incidents are tracked and dealt with under the IT-ISMS policies - Incident and Non-Conformity Management Policy and Information Security Policy. These are available on request.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v3.0)
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Pricing
- Price
- £20,000 to £500,000 an instance a year
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
- Free trial available
- No