Roc Technologies has just snared what it claims is the UK public sector’s first “at-scale” Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) deal.
The Newbury-based MSP on Thursday sealed the wax on a WAN, LAN, cybersecurity and wireless deal with a public sector customer encompassing a consortium of vendors including Palo Alto Networks, Juniper Mist and Vorboss.
Talking to IT Channel Oxygen, CTO Chelsea Chamberlin characterised it as “the first UK public sector SASE deployment at enterprise scale”.
“DWP have done a small SSE [Security Service Edge] deployment previously, but certainly at enterprise [level], and certainly in local government and policing, this is an industry first,” she said.
Backed since 2018 by BGF, Roc is set to report revenues “north of £60m” for its fiscal 2025, CEO Simon Furber said.
It now employs around 300 staff, plus a further 40-50 typically security-cleared contractors on a normal day, he said.
“We are a core MSP with a heavy security layer,” he said.
“The nature of particularly some of the higher-education work is quite project and hardware transformation [driven] up front, but, where we really come to play is the in-life management in the period thereafter.”
