Agile Security Testing
Department for Work and PensionsEstimated Value
Up to £600,000
Deadline
12 September 2019
Published
24 October 2019
Type
services
Overview
Universal Credit is a flagship service for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), and given its accessibility on the Internet, the service is subject to a range of evolving threats. With agile methodologies, and the use of commodity cloud services, the need to rapidly iterate deployed applications and infrastructures is paramount in order to meet the needs of users.
In such a fast-paced environment, it is therefore increasingly crucial that there is a comprehensive application testing regime in place, aligned with the development lifecycle, to ensure that vulnerabilities are identified and prioritised accordingly for remediation. The Universal Credit Programme requires a culture of continuous vulnerability assessment to align with the existing continuous integration (CI) pipeline.
The DWP therefore require an Agile Security Testing service to complement our developers, DevOps and the Secure Design team to continuously test existing and new features as they iterate to feed into the Development lifecycle. In addition, the supplier is also required to utilise and optimise existing toolsets used for the identification of application vulnerabilities and suggest areas for improvement.
Eligibility & compliance
The supplier will be required to undertake a combination of automated and manual testing to identify vulnerabilities within the application.
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IBM UK Ltd
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Department For Work and PensionsKey Dates
Published
24 October 2019
Submission deadline
12 September 2019
Notice type
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