Mvine’s One Cyber-Secure Platform, And What It Can Offer Both The Public And Private Sector

Mvine is a Diamond Level sponsor of Think Digital Partners’ upcoming Think Digital Identity for Government 2018, so we sat down with the Surrey-based company’s Director, Frank Joshi (Twitter @fjoshi) to find out more about his company’s unique technology approach to the issues around the safe sharing of knowledge between organisations

The roots of our Cyber-secure technology can be found in the collaborative environments we have built, enabling people to do business more efficiently and more securely and to exchange content and data between people within an organisation, or people within an organisation and its partners or different organisations transacting together.

 Information confidentiality, integrity, availability and security is at the heart of everything we do. Our calling card is technology enabling people to work with colleagues, customers and partners efficiently, to welcome consumers as their new customers confidently, and to live life on the move with people they do business with safely. In a word – trust. If that all sounds pretty straightforward then it should be; with the right technology. Which is why our primary line of business is authoring and selling Cyber-Secure Platforms for Collaboration Portals and for Identity Management, as well as delivering cloud support services that makes all that happen.

Our clients in the public sector include the Metropolitan Police, the NHS, DEFRA, and Transport for London whereas our clients in the private sector include sports bodies such as the England and Wales Cricket Board. One of our longest standing clients in the UK is BT, but we also work outside the UK, for example with a global Danish bank.

A key part of what we’ve built to sell to the private sector is a capability to link different Identity services together, in the form of an exchange. Over a year ago, when GDS went to the market and said, we’re creating a sandbox for the private sector to test how it can make use of Verify, we immediately raised our hand and got involved as a Hub Service Provider.

Interestingly, we are one of only three Hub Service Providers to have gone through the initial self-certification process required by GDS, and we are the first provider to have stood up a functional working hub. This means that anybody who wants to test for themselves how they could use government-assured digital Identities in the private sector can come to us and test how they could use the Verify scheme in their IT services.

We’re working on a really important Open Identity Exchange (OIX UK) alpha project that’s being run by an organisation called Etive Technologies with a number of London boroughs and local authorities, using the Verify sandbox. Together, we’re all exploring how you create digital Identities for people who have a very low digital footprint. The ultimate ambition is a resident can create an Identity for themselves based on information held about them within the council to help them access a greater range of digital public services, and we’re really excited to be part of that work.

The reason why UK public sector organisations want to work with us is that we actually provide them with some solutions where they take greater ownership of everything and they get things delivered sooner rather than later, in an agile way – unlike the service offering that so many people experience from a lot of the huge vendors and outsourcing firms. And we’ve also got working technology that’s ready to roll out today, not in six months or a year.