Overview

Police CyberAlarm is a free tool to help your business understand and monitor malicious cyber activity. It is a police led product aimed at businesses and organisations with a network and online presence. Police CyberAlarm acts as a “CCTV camera” monitoring the traffic seen by your businesses’ connection to the internet. It will detect and provide regular reports of suspected malicious activity, enabling your business to minimise your vulnerabilities. Once you become a Police CyberAlarm member you install a ‘CyberAlarm Virtual Server’ on your system which will be used to collect and process traffic logs identifying suspicious activity from your firewall/internet gateway. Police CyberAlarm is a monitoring system and does not interfere with normal network operations. It is a small virtual appliance outside the network and does not delay the traffic through the gateway. It is installed with just one click. The data collected by the system does not contain any content of the traffic. The system is designed to protect personal data, trade secrets and intellectual property. Data is used to provide details on the latest threats discovered, giving your business the ability to update security measures. Data is also used by the police to identify current threats, take enforcement action against the cyber criminals and help your business prepare and better protect itself. Police CyberAlarm is being rolled out across England and Wales so if it is not yet live in your region, it will be available in the coming weeks. Check our website for the latest list of areas able to sign up or register your interest in advance of your region going live. If you would like to become part of Police CyberAlarm or find out more about receiving regular security updates and reports to help you gain a better understanding of current threats, register on our website: cyberalarm.police.uk/#join