Security News > 2021 > March > Brit cybercops issue tender to rip and replace their formerly flaw-ridden CyberAlarm tool
Police have issued a tender to replace their CyberAlarm tool following reporting by The Register and infosec researchers revealing security flaws in the logging software.
Detective chief superintendent Andrew Gould, the NPCC's cybercrime lead and "Owner" of CyberAlarm, told The Register in a statement: "Due to the growing demand for Police CyberAlarm from businesses across the country, further funding for the project has been secured from the Home Office for another 12 months following the government's latest one-year spending review. As per procurement regulations we are required to conduct a new competitive tender to identify a supplier for the new 12-month contract."
A CyberAlarm spokeswoman previously denied that project personnel had been telling members of the public that The Register had audited the tool and given it a clean bill of health.
"As we have made abundantly clear to The Register previously, Mr Moore's blog posts did not review the Police CyberAlarm product and we dispute their content. His allegations have not been supported by third parties. We are happy with the current system and the current provider and have been throughout."
"We have received significant interest from large UK and international organisations who are considering how Police CyberAlarm can help them with their supply chain and customer cyber security. Police CyberAlarm has always been and remains secure, which has been confirmed repeatedly by well-respected independent external penetration testing companies, and continues to go from strength to strength. We continue to take all legitimate reports of verifiable security concerns seriously."
"The image referenced by The Register is not the Police CyberAlarm logo, and nor has it ever been. The image, which is not actually the same as the Cyber Alarm Ltd logo, had been included in certain diagrams produced by a third-party agency. The use of the Police CyberAlarm brand publicly goes back to 2018, prior to the date when Cyber Alarm Ltd began trading, and before it launched its website in July 2020 or its product in August 2020.".