East Midlands Government WARP (EMGWARP)

Local Government East Midlands is providing this service for 46 local authorities in the East Midlands. There are five Counties in the East Midlands and four Unitary authorities, with 36 Shire Districts and one National Park Authority. The EMGWARP will provide services to all these authorities, and should be a particular benefit to the Shire Districts, many of which are small and have limited capacity to pursue computer security issues.

The WARP will enable the exchange of best practice from national and regional levels and encourage networking and mutual learning. LGEM has a strong relationship with all the local authorities in the East Midlands and already runs a number of officer networks on a wide range of topics. As such it has developed a level of trust with the local authority community which should benefit it in establishing the WARP service. The service has been developed by a Working Group comprising representatives from County and District authorities in the Region. This Working Group will in due course become the WARP Steering Group.

The WARP Network will be run by a dedicated team in the Improvement and Representation Section of LGEM. The filtered warning service will be bought from an existing WARP, the Mid Yorkshire WARP, and the trusted sharing of security incidents will be developed via the WARP Network. Once the WARP is fully established membership can also be offered to other partner organisations such as Town Councils, Parish Councils and Fire Authorities.

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