North West Emergency services WARP (NWEWARP)

The NW regional Emergency Services WARP (NWEWARP) is provided by Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU). Its focus is on an existing community of regional emergency services (Police, Fire, and Ambulance) IT Managers. This community includes sub-divisions such as High-Tech Crime Units within the region. Such a community is suitably small and similar, in the spirit of initial WARP vision.

The community already operates within a culture of information sharing, meeting regularly through SOCITM and similar forums. The NWEWARP assists in the reduction of electronic attacks against emergency services IT infrastructure by providing raised awareness of vulnerabilities to the users within the community. The partners in the WARP operation have considerable expertise and track record working in Information Assurance. Additionally, LJMU have as their core business activity the sharing of information, so there is a natural fit with the aim of WARP generally.

This WARP is ideally placed to link closely with related WARPs, both current and future, such as those in local government and other public sectors. Emergency services systems which are considered part of the CNI can benefit from the additional level of support offered by this WARP, over and above support from UNIRAS or other WARPs.

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