2024/25 highlights • Enhanced our colleague benefits, including the launch of an improved Employee Assistance Programme in Europe. • Published our draft Carbon Reduction Plan and launched our verified Carbon Literacy Training programme. • Successful migration of Fox-IT onto the NCC Group certification for ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001:2022, resulting in a reduction of overall costs and consistent ways of working. Why sustainability matters Sustainability is about doing the right thing in the right way, and this is reflected in our Code of Ethics and embedded into our everyday ways of working. It’s important to our clients, who trust us to help secure their digital assets; it’s important to our colleagues, who are critical to the value we bring to our clients; and it’s important to our shareholders, who entrust their investments to NCC Group, relying on us to deliver returns to their shareholders. It also matters to our political stakeholders who turn to us for trusted and independent advice and insights that improve cyber rules and regulations around the world. We live in a rapidly evolving digital world, where the concept of sustainability extends to how we operate in totality. Not only are we supporting our clients to meet their governance requirements through our cyber security and escrow solutions, we are also helping to advance technologies that are at the forefront of fighting climate change, as well as other UN Sustainable Development Goals. This means systems, networks and infrastructures need to be resilient, secure and long lasting. Cyber Security and sustainability are inherently intertwined, which means cyber threats pose a significant risk not only to individual businesses but to our very way of life too. The decisions we make today have far-reaching implications for the future.
Securing our future As our lives become more digitally interconnected, the risk landscape broadens. From smart homes to smart cities, from online banking to telehealth services, from power grids to water supplies – they all rely on complex digital infrastructures. If these systems are compromised, the repercussions can be devastating. Hence, securing these infrastructures is an essential part of ensuring a sustainable future. Our ability to protect against cyber threats, through the work we do for our clients, plays a pivotal role in guaranteeing that our world remains functional, reliable and consistent for generations to come. Indeed, we believe strongly that we can’t build a resilient economy without resilient cyberspace, and we can’t have a resilient cyberspace without 21st century laws and an infrastructure to tackle cyber threats, which is why we share our expertise with policymakers to improve cyber rules and regulations meaningfully. Our sustainability framework While the primary focus of our industry has always been about security, we recognise our operations have a broader environmental and societal impact. Our sustainability framework has two core tenets focused on people and the planet, underpinned by being a responsible employer and supply chain partner. This framework is the foundation to start making tangible progress in addressing material topics for our stakeholders. We believe that this is a journey, not a race. We place sustainability at the heart of our strategy – not just securing the digital world, but securing the future for ourselves and for generations to come. We invite our stakeholders to join us, working together to build a future that is not only secure but also sustainable.
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If we are to meaningfully reduce our carbon footprint we need to engage our stakeholders in the conversation
Building on our partnership with Positive Planet, and as part of developing our Carbon Reduction Plan, we designed and had certified our own Carbon Literacy Training programme. This certified, one-day programme will enable us to build knowledge around the business of what the climate crisis is, and what we can do individually and collectively to take action to reduce the impact we have. The first cohort of delegates on this course included Lynn Fordham, our Non-Executive Director responsible for Sustainability; Guy Ellis, Chief Financial Officer; and Michelle Van de Velde, Chief People Officer, along with senior members of the procurement, communications and marketing, HR and sales and technical delivery teams. Over 400 colleagues have signed up to undertake the course, and we have developed our own certified in-house training capability to do this.
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