Dave Schneider / Contact: / Mrs. Williams
Direct Line: / 01594 812511
Direct Fax: / 01594 812470
Email: /
Our Ref: / LW/FOIR/0000031
Your Ref:
Date / 25 August 2010

Dear Mr. Schneider

Freedom of Information Request – FOIR/0000031

Further to your request dated 18 August 2010 for the following information:

I wish to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act. The
following questions and information I wish to have sent to me are
as follows:
Provide, name, address and telephone number for the following
people:
Senior Information Risk Owner – Mr. M. Thomas - Forest of Dean District Council – 01594 810000
Governance Manager – Ms. Marie Rosenthal – Forest of Dean District Council – 01594 812510
Information Security Officer/Manager – Mr. M. Thomas. Forest of Dean District Council – 01594 810000
Information Technology Security Officer/Manager – Mr. M. Thomas – Forest of Dean District Council – 01594 810000
Caldecott Guardian – N/A
PCI-DSS
Does your organisation process electronic payment cards? – Yes from 1 April 2009
How much money is processed from electronic payment cards per
annum?. - £1,933,171.29.
How many electronic payment card transactions are processed per
annum? - For the year to 31 March 2010 we had 15,179 transactions
Are you PCI-DSS compliant? - Yes
ISO 27001
Are you or have you considered becoming ISO 27001 compliant or
certified? - No we haven’t considered or have any plans for the moment to comply or be certified to the ISO 27001 as parts of it are covered by the Gov Connect standards.
Government Connect
Are you connected and operationally utilising the Government
Connect network? - Yes, we are.
If not have you considered connecting to
Government Connect and why was the decision made not to connect? – N/A
Do you meet the Government Connect version three requirements? - Yes, we do meet with Gov. Connect v3 requirements. However, we cannot provide you with the report as it is a Protected document. We would be in breach of Gov Connect standards if we were to supply you with the report.
Please supply your latest CLAS consultant annual Government Connect
assessment/audit report, blanking out any statements which could
contravene a security concern from a third party reading it.
Do you meet the Government Connect version four requirements?
Please supply the latest internal report for the Government Connect
version four Audit/Assessment, blanking out any statements which
could contravene a security concern from a third party reading it. - No, we do not meet with Gov. Connect v4.1 requirements yet. We are in the process of completing and submitting the assessment.
Criminal Justice Network
Are you connected to and operationally utilising the Criminal
Justice Network? If not have you considered connecting to the
Criminal Justice Network and why was the decision made not to
connect? – NO – never considered
Please supply your latest annual assessment/audit report, blanking
out any statements which could contravene a security concern from a
third party reading it. – N/A
NHS N3 Network
Are you connected to and operationally utilising the NHS N3
Network? - NO
If not have you considered connecting to the NHS N3
network and why was the decision made not to connect? – never considered
Please supply your latest N3 Connection assessment/audit report,
blanking out any statements which could contravene a security
concern from a third party reading it.
Do both schools and the Council share the same physical network
responsible for voice and data communications? – N/A

Yours sincerely

Mrs. L Williams

Legal Office Manager