How do Oxford Economics prevent unauthorised access?

Oxford Economics has numerous technical measures in place to prevent, detect and alert unauthorised access. We operate based on “least privilege”; therefore, staff require the appropriate licence to access our cloud-hosted CRM, which stores customer's personally identifiable information. Furthermore, Data Loss Prevention controls are in place on our entire Office 365 platform to prevent the accidental or intended extraction of data. All staff systems operate through Single Sign-on with Zero Trust technology such as multifactor authentication, conditional access and behaviour analysis.

Our email gateway solution, Mimecast, thoroughly scans all emails, creates “safe” versions of attachments, and rewrites all URLs to trigger through their sandbox, preventing the detonation of unsafe payloads.

Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems are in place on all gateway devices, and Cisco's appliances are under proactive support for faults and software upgrades. We set all devices to be more security-bias by default.

Finally, Bitdefender Gravity Zone protects all endpoint devices using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to combat more sophisticated attacks.