Overview
The Security domain encompasses all Capabilities, tools, and practices that protect the organisation’s people, data, systems, and services from threats and ensure resilience against disruption.
Key Capabilities
Products and Services
Digital tools, platforms and services that enable Security capabilities.
- DNS Check – DNS Check is a free monitoring service provided by the Government Digital Service (GDS) to the UK public sector
- Vulnerability Monitoring Service – The Vulnerability Monitoring Service, provided by the Government Digital Service (GDS), helps public sector organisations identify and respond to security vulnerabilities in your internet-facing digital services.
- SIEM Integration Service – allow you to receive all the misconfiguration and vulnerability data collected by DNS Check and the Vulnerability Monitoring Service.
- GOV.UK One Login – Let your users sign in to your service with their email address, password and two-factor authentication.
- GOV.UK Internal Access – This 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 Security capabilities.
- Government Security – This site is the home of security strategies, standards, policies, and guidance for UK government departments and their arm’s length bodies.
- Secure by Design – Guidance on effective cyber security practices when building digital services and technical infrastructure.
- Secure Govt Email – How to apply the government secure email policy.
Commercial Agreements
Crown Commercial Service agreements which provides access to commercial agreements that support Security.
- Cyber Security Services – CCS commercial agreements that offer cyber security services to help improve organisational cyber resilience and security posture
- Security Physical, Technical and Support Services – CCS commercial agreements for security products and services
- Network Services – CCS commercial agreements that include Network security, domain name services
Related Domains
- Integration - for connecting service applications to back-end systems
- Governance and Standards - for ensuring services are compliant and aligned with strategic policy
- Data & Information Management - for managing the data that powers services