This October will see Imerja’s fifth appearance at the SOCITM annual exhibition. The event is being held at Edinburgh International Conference Centre on the 11th – 13th October where Imerja will be situated on stand 8 on the second level, Cromdale Hall.

The SOCITM exhibition is widely thought of as a great chance to enhance the professional development of companies and their customers alike. The association has over 1900 members from 550 organisations, many of which attend to gain an updated knowledge about the development and use of ICT around the UK. For Imerja, attendance is an invaluable opportunity to talk face to face with both potential and current customers about the IT security solutions and services they can provide.

With over 1900 members from 550 different organisations including 98% of all UK local authorities, Socitm provides a widely respected forum for the promotion, use and development of ICT best practice. It also plays a leading role in the implementation of local e-government in the UK. The Society is a significant provider of advice and guidance on ICT and e-government to local authorities. Socitm offers a growing range of services including publications, conferences, events, training, research and consultancy.

This year’s Annual Conference took place from 1st to 3rd October at the Harogate International Centre. In addition to providing sponsorship at the event Imerja exhibited throughout providing delegates the opportunity to talk to representatives about the IT security solutions and services it can provide, and the Government Connect programme which Imerja has been involved with from the start.

Specifically, delegates were able to learn more about the unique Enabling Government Connect service that Imerja is providing in partnership with the NCC Group – details below.

Enabling Government Connect

Imerja has joined forces with independent consultancy NCC Group to provide local authorities wishing to join Government Connect with a tailor made package of professional services which will take them from zero to connected with minimal fuss or disruption to their organisation.

Government Connect provides a secure and sustainable framework to securely transmit electronic communications, enabling local government and its partners from other public sector organisations, and the third sector, to deliver personalised joined up services to their customers and offer service improvement. The “enabling” service from Imerja and NCC Group provides an uncomplicated three stage approach which will ensure a seamless implementation from development of the initial business case through to compliance.

The service will be delivered by a team of experienced consultants from NCC Group and Imerja, bringing together the strengths of NCC Group’s independent ICT, information and business consultants with Imerja’s ICT infrastructure security specialists, and drawing on the team’s combined expertise and extensive experience of local government ICT projects.

More than 12,000 people visited this year’s INFOSEC Europe event held at Earl’s Court Olympia. With visitor numbers up by 12% on the previous year it proved to be a very energetic three days and served to highlight the tremendous interest and growth that the IT security market is currently experiencing.

Having teamed up with key vendors Imerja used its stand to demonstrate a comprehensive end to end security solution based on best fit technology. Technology partners included Check Point, Crossbeam, Sourcefire, SecureWave, RSA, Websense, Network Critical and Exinda. Hosting a live demo environment during the three day event Imerja security consultants were on hand to walk people through the end to end solution, explaining the value each technology component had in the demonstration scenario.

Representative from the vendor partners joined Imerja on the stand during the event, including Network Critical, Sourcefire, SecureWave and Check Point.

In addition to meeting with customers and vendors, and promoting its portfolio of professional and packaged services Imerja launched a new service aimed at helping local authorities wanting to realise the full benefit of the Government Connect programme and product set. Enabling Government Connect is a straightforward three stage service which will ensure a seamless implementation from development of the initial business case through to compliance. The service has been developed by Imerja and the NCC Group, bringing together the strengths of independent ICT, information and business consultants with ICT infrastructure security specialists.

Imerja would like to thank all of you who visited its stand over the course of the three day event, and look forward to speaking to you again in the very near future as we follow up on your technical and business enquiries.

If you did not get the chance to speak to us at the show, or have any further questions you would like to put to us, please contact us at info@imerja.com and we will be pleased to help.