Disclosure Log

Cyber security solutions (FOI/6946)

Message from Nottinghamshire County Council - 30 December 2025

Dear *********                                                                  

Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI/00006946

Thank you for your email of 15th December 2025 where you requested information about Cyber security solutions. The response to your request is provided below.

In your request you asked:
 
  • Who does the authority partner with to purchase their cyber security solutions*
  • Which supplier provides the authority"s endpoint solution software*
  • When is the current renewal date for the authority"s endpoint solution software Dec 2028
  • Does the authority carry out penetration tests and if so, when was the last test carried out Annually – Spring 2025
 
*For this FOI, we are not supplying any specific information on cyber security solutions or vendors/suppliers.
This is exemption information under section 31 of Freedom of Information Act. The public interest in disclosure for transparency, scrutiny and accountability of public bodies is outweighed by the public interest in ensuring the risks to operations and assets of public authorities are not exposed to malicious actors. 
 
This is due to the following: 
 
  1. Any information that could be used by hackers, scammers, and other malicious actors to compromise the Council’s ICT systems and cyber security should not bedisclosedto external organisations,partnersor members of the public. 
 
  1. Examples of information which could be used by malicious actors, particularly ifcomprisedof details relating toshort timeperiods of less than a year, include: 
 
  • Use of external cyber/online security contractors, firms; and 
  • Details of ICT and cyber security systems, procedures,policiesand contracts particular to the Council 

Your privacy: we use your personal information such as name and address so that we can comply with our legal obligations to respond to FOI requests.  For further details about the use of information about you, please see the information handling privacy notice on our website at https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/media/4323566/informationgovernanceandinformationrightsprivacynotice.pdf.

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal review.  Internal review requests should be submitted within 40 working days of the date of receipt of the response to your original request and should be addressed to: Complaints and Information – Team Manager, Nottinghamshire County Council, County Hall, Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 7QP or [email protected].

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications. 

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision.  The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, WILMSLOW, SK9 5AF or https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/foi-and-eir-complaints/.

Yours sincerely

The Complaints and Information Team
Nottinghamshire County Council