Assess and manage your council's cyber resilience alpha assessment report

Assess and manage your council’s cyber resilience

This service aims to solve the problem of councils and MHCLG lacking a reliable, scalable way to build an accurate and comprehensive picture of cyber resilience from repeated CAF for Local Government assessments, due to limitations in usability, coordination and data quality. It provides a single, secure and intuitive digital platform for councils and independent assurers to manage, complete, submit and update multiple assessments—improving continuity, reducing burden, and enabling better assurance and insight over time.

This service is for local authority staff, independent cyber security professionals, and MHCLG colleagues who need a simple, secure and reliable way to assess, manage and use data on cyber resilience. From a user’s perspective, it provides a single place to complete, review and update multiple Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) assessments, while enabling MHCLG to collect consistent, high-quality data and generate meaningful insights at scale. It is designed to reduce the burden of managing assessments, improve co-ordination between contributors, and support better decision-making, assurance and oversight of cyber resilience across the sector.

| Things the service team has done well: ● Lead Assessor - The team demonstrated a sustainable approach to delivery, with an actively engaged service owner and established roles, including embedded engagement functions, reducing reliance on external dependencies and supporting long-term service ownership

● Design assessor - The team have made a good start to tackling a complex service problem, with a broad set of users and a large timescale. They have clearly demonstrated a lot of work and have made good progress in using user-friendly language in the service.