SCC, who provide IT infrastructure services, have become the first supplier to the G-Cloud, to become fully accredited for secure government data.

While the company has yet to acquire customers through the public sector cloud service, the accreditation will allow SCC to sell to a wider range of public sector departments, including those involved in delivering security centric services.

Rhys Sharp, SCC's chief technology officer, commented: “As you would expect it is has been a long and challenging process, but we have to put it in context of the whole journey that we have already been undertaking.”