Associations

The Bunker is an active member of, and contributes to, a number of world-leading security associations.

Memberships include FIRST (http://www.first.org/), the recognised global leader in security incident response, as well as Black Hat Europe (http://www.blackhat.com/), a leading industry think tank that brings together the corporate, security and IT communities to provide continuous visibility of the newest vulnerabilities, defence mechanisms, and security trends.

Other Bunker association involvement includes:

	ITIL (the IT Infrastructure Library) is the most widely accepted approach to IT service management in the world. ITIL provides a cohesive set of best practice, drawn from the public and private sectors internationally.
	PCI DSS is viewed by the payment card industry as the de facto security requirement for organisations that store, process or transmit cardholder details. The Bunker’s PCI DSS accreditation will help customers meet their own requirements when working towards PCI DSS compliance.
	Microsoft Gold Partner represents the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies and the closest working relationship with Microsoft. The Bunker has competencies in hosting solutions, networking infrastructure solutions and advanced infrastructure solutions recognising its expertise in the marketplace.
	HP Preferred Partners are recognised through the HP Preferred Partner brand: These partners have been selected and approved by HP to deliver the right value and expertise for customers requiring the quality of service they expect. The Bunker carries certifications across HP's product portfolio, and holds specific product and solution specialisations.
	Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world.  Developed under the GNU General Public License, the source code for Linux is freely available to everyone.
	FIRST brings together a variety of computer security incident response teams from government, commercial and educational organizations. FIRST aims to foster cooperation and coordination in incident prevention, to stimulate rapid reaction to incidents, and to promote information sharing among members and the community at large.
	The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects.  The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus based development process, an open and pragmatic software licence, and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field.  At Apache we consider ourselves not simply a group of projects sharing a server, but rather a community of developers and users.
	What began as a better way to build software–openness, transparency, collaboration–soon shifted the balance of power in an entire industry. The revolution of choice continues. Today Red Hat is the world’s most trusted provider of Linux and open source technology.
	The MySQL® database has become the world’s most popular open source database because of its consistent fast performance, high reliability and ease of use. It’s used on every continent — Yes, even Antarctica! — by individual Web developers as well as many of the world’s largest and fastest-growing organizations to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, business-critical systems and packaged software — including industry leaders such as Yahoo!, Alcatel-Lucent, Google, Nokia, YouTube, and Zappos.com.
	Formed in May 2002, Intellect was created to give a single powerful voice to the information technology, telecommunications and electronics industries in the UK. Highly respected by both the public and private sectors alike, Intellect members work together to help shape markets and develop new thinking in the technology sector, whilst working closely with Government to influence policy and improve industry best practice.
	The Jericho Forum is an international group of organisations working together to define and promote the solutions surrounding the issue of de-perimeterisation. They recognize that over the next few years, as technology and business continue to align closer to an open, Internet-driven world, the current security mechanisms that protect business information will not match the increasing demands for protection of business transactions and data in the future
	FreeBSD® is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium® and Athlon™), amd64 compatible (including Opteron™, Athlon™64 and EM64T), UltraSPARC®, IA-64, PC-98 and ARM architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. Additional platforms are in various stages of development.
	Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community. The basic idea behind open source is very simple: when programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing.
	London Chamber of Commerce is London’s premier business support and networking organisation. We are the voice of London business – representing both SMEs and larger corporate organisations. LCCI policy is driven by our members. Member companies have a direct say in determining our campaign priorities. Our overriding objective is to ensure that businesses are better able to compete both at home and overseas.
	Business Link provide the information, advice and support you need to start a new business or maintain and grow an existing one. Rather than providing all the advice and help ourselves, we put you in touch with a range of expertise from across the private, public and voluntary support business sectors.
	The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. OpenBSD’s efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. OpenBSD supports binary emulation of most programs from SVR4 (Solaris), FreeBSD, Linux, BSD/OS, SunOS and HP-UX.
	Established in 1997, Locate in Kent is a company funded and supported by Kent County Council, South East England Development Agency (SEEDA), East Kent Partnership, Medway Council , local councils, the Kent Developers Group, a partnership of the area’s leading commercial property developers and partners from the private sector.