Overview
The governance and standards domain encompasses the frameworks, policies, and controls that guide how digital and technology activities are directed, governed, and assured across the organisation. This section provides access to guidance and standards that define expectations, responsibilities, and good practice.
Key capabilities
Products and services
Digital tools, platforms and services that enable governance and standards capabilities.
- DNS Check is a free monitoring service provided by the Government Digital Service (GDS) to the UK public sector
- Vulnerability Monitoring Service, provided by the Government Digital Service (GDS), helps public sector organisations identify and respond to security vulnerabilities in their internet-facing digital services
- SIEM Integration Service allows you to receive all the misconfiguration and vulnerability data collected by DNS Check and the Vulnerability Monitoring Service
- GOV.UK One Login lets your users sign in to your service with their email address, password and two-factor authentication
- GOV.UK Internal Access is an Alpha service which provides single sign-on for internal users to services
Guidelines and standards
Provides access to the approved guidance, design principles, and technical standards that support governance and standards capabilities.
- Government Security is the home of security strategies, standards, policies, and guidance for UK government departments and their arm’s length bodies.
- Secure by Design provides guidance on effective cyber security practices when building digital services and technical infrastructure.
- Secure Govt Email provides guidance on how to apply the government secure email policy.
Commercial agreements
Crown Commercial Service (CCS) agreements which provides access to commercial agreements that support governance and standards.
- Management Consultancy Framework are CCS commercial agreements that offer management consultancy services to support organisations.
- Digital Specialists and Programme Support are CCS commercial agreements for digital programme and specialist support
- Digital Outcomes are CCS commercial agreements that support outcomes and user research
Related domains
- Integration is for connecting service applications to back-end systems
- Security is for protecting user data and ensuring service resilience
- Data and information management is for managing the data that powers services