The Refugee Council is the leading non-governmental organisation in the UK working with asylum seekers and refugees since 1951. The Refugee Council not only gives direct help and support, but also work with asylum seekers and refugees to ensure their needs and concerns are addressed.
Services include:
- Providing crisis advice, mental health counselling and practical support
- Working with refugee children who arrive in the UK alone
- Working with refugees and partners to improve the asylum protection system and look to inspire change in attitude towards refugees, asylum seekers and people.
Project Goal(s)
- Helped The Refugee Council become compliant with the following security frameworks/standards:
- ISO 27001
- NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre)
- CPNI Framework
- ISO/IEC27002
- ISMS framework
Contributions
- Successfully helped The Refugee Council become compliant with the above standards/frameworks via completing infosec policies and procedures, formulating risk management and risk treatment plans, third party supplier due diligence, providing guidance on the CPNI framework, incident management, business continuity plans and data retention schedules all of which adhere to the UK GDPR regulation.
Technologies/Framework/Platform for data/management/delivery
- N/A
Outcomes
The Contributions above were all successfully implemented and hence the business objectives of The Refugee Council were successfully met and fulfilled in regards their information security and privacy needs.