Council Devices, Software and Expenditure

1. How many devices from the list below are deployed by Devon County Council (DCC)?

See table

2. Does DCC plan to refresh or replace any of these devices?

Yes

3. Please provide the indicative or projected expenditure

See table

* DCC can confirm that we hold the information requested, however, we consider this is exempt from disclosure under Section 31(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.  

 This is because the Council considers that this information constitutes valuable intelligence, that could be leveraged by a motivated cyber threat actor to inform a successful attack against our infrastructure.  We feel that releasing this information would therefore increase the chances of DCC becoming the victim of a cyber-attack. 

 We have considered the public interest in releasing this information and whilst we recognise that there is an overriding public interest in openness and transparency, we feel that there is a stronger public interest in the Council maintaining the security and integrity of its security infrastructure.

 We feel that significant weight should be applied to this public interest consideration given the current elevated cyber threat landscape facing public sector organisations.  For these reasons we feel that the balance of public interest weighs in favour of withholding this information from disclosure. 

4. Does DCC plan to develop, refresh or replace any software applications?

Yes

5. Please provide the software name and planned year