FINANCE
Introduction to finance
Sound funding is the basis for a successful project. We were fortunate to have good sponsors and have full support for our project plan. A good plan makes finding funds easier. We were blessed with enough budget to make a quick and full force start, interference from commissionaires was less from the beginning, although we spent a good portion of our time on making proper management reports and discussing the right direction with them. They have been very supportive and listened to our advice and remarks and helped us find the right contacts. It takes a lot of effort, but it keeps you sharp and forces you to recheck your project plan and estimated schedule. It encourages a mature and independent way of handling a project.
Results of the GOVCERT.NL project
The yearly budget for the GOVCERT.NL standard services sponsored by the
Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations:
- Operational budget € 2 million from central government
- Other governments pay cost price covering tariff
- Requested Projects: at cost price
Some constituents wanted special 2nd opinions or an extra security scan. The money covers the extra time and effort and gave us freedom to hire special skills or manpower for the job, which is essential with a small staff.
The alerting service 'De Waarschuwingsdienst' is sponsored by the Ministry of Economic Affairs with an operational budget of € 400,000 per year.
We offer a fully operational website and a 24x7 service. We also use a watchdog script for monitoring the good functionality of the website and partial staffing of the technical team is financed that way (1.5 FTE) including the on call costs.
The whole of Government can join GOVCERT.NL. They are not under any obligation to join us. That is why GOVCERT.NL puts a great deal of effort into the intake process to convince them of the benefits GOVCERT.NL has to offer.
- 24x7 support
- Independent advice
- Tailor-made advisories
- Prevention of ICT-security issues
- Incident response
- Access to national and international ICT security groups
Our constituents, all from Dutch central government, do not have to pay for our basic services. Other government bodies, such as provinces, water board districts and municipalities have to pay a membership fee at cost price.More information can be found on our website
Tips for Finance
From the very start, produce good statistics to demonstrate success to your stakeholders. For example:
- How many constituents you have.
- How many advisories have been sent under what rating.
- How many incident reports you received.
- More and simple statistics; automate them, it saves a lot of time!
- Involve your sponsor, let them also take ownership!
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