Land Information and Communications Services Group
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The Land Information and Communications Services Group (LICSG) is one of the three Territorial Army (TA) units which constitute Specialist Group Royal Signals (SGRS), the others being 81 Signal Squadron (Volunteers) and the Land Information Assurance Group (LIAG). Members of SGRS are considered to be Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) with current commercial and military skills and experience in either Information Assurance (IA)
or Information and Communications Services (ICS).
The LICSG provides Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) support in line with both the National Cyber Security Strategy and ISO27001
(a compliance standard for Information Security Management), offering specialist expertise and advice at every stage of the development and management of ICS. Key functions which it can undertake include:
The LICSG can help bring about the following effects for a Defence organization:
Official MOD webpage for LICSG http://www.army.mod.uk/signals/organisation/9191.aspx
Information Assurance
Information assurance is the practice of managing risks related to the use, processing, storage, and transmission of information or data and the systems and processes used for those purposes...
or Information and Communications Services (ICS).
The LICSG provides Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) support in line with both the National Cyber Security Strategy and ISO27001
ISO/IEC 27001
ISO/IEC 27001, part of the growing ISO/IEC 27000 family of standards, is an Information Security Management System standard published in October 2005 by the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission...
(a compliance standard for Information Security Management), offering specialist expertise and advice at every stage of the development and management of ICS. Key functions which it can undertake include:
- Strategic, operational and requirements analysis
- Planning
- Solution design
- Programme and project implementation
- In-service support and advice
- Business Continuity Planning
- Service Management (ITILInformation Technology Infrastructure LibraryThe Information Technology Infrastructure Library , is a set of good practices for IT service management that focuses on aligning IT services with the needs of business. In its current form , ITIL is published in a series of five core publications, each of which covers an ITSM lifecycle stage...
) - Continuous improvement analysis
The LICSG can help bring about the following effects for a Defence organization:
- Deployed HQs and staffs
- Campaign Signal Regiments
- Permanent Joint Operating Bases (PJOBs) overseas
- UK homeland MoD organisations
- The MoD Information Systems and Services (ISS) Directorate
- The MoD Global Operational Security Control Centre (GOSCC)
- Defence Lines of Development (DLODs)
- Friendly nations
Official MOD webpage for LICSG http://www.army.mod.uk/signals/organisation/9191.aspx