Recently acquired Novosco makes six-figure SOC investment

SOC will help facilitate £107m deal won last year

MSP Novosco has invested over half-a-million pounds in a new 24/7 security operations centre (SOC), which will partly be used to facilitate a £107m contract it won with Cambridge University Hospitals Trust last year.

The move will see Novosco create a 12-person team to run the SOC, which is at its Belfast headquarters.

The team, made up of recently graduates from a cybersecurity academy run by Belfast Metropolitan College, will monitor the SOC 24/7.

Novosco managing director John Lennon (pictured, left, with Novosco security architect Peter Moorhead) said: "Cybersecurity is at the forefront of the minds of businesses and organisations across the public, private and voluntary sectors.

"It is business critical that these organisations secure, protect and monitor their IT systems to prevent breaches that could have very significant repercussions.

"We have invested significantly in the capital infrastructure, the technology, and the people to make sure that we have an offering that meets the requirements of organisations with complex and sophisticated cyber security needs."

Novosco was acquired by Cancom last month, following on from the German reseller's acquisition of OCLF last year.

Earlier this year the firm announced it would be expanding its HQ having won the NHS deal last year.