Guidance and regulation

Make sure citizens’ rights are protected by integrating privacy as an essential part of your system.

• From: Central Digital and Data Office
• Updated: 31 March 2021

This guidance outlines how to create and implement a cloud strategy, and when to consider a single, hybrid or multi-cloud solution.

• From: Central Digital and Data Office
• Updated: 31 March 2020

This guidance explains how you can apply common security standards in your organisation to secure email.

• From: Central Digital and Data Office
• Updated: 15 March 2021

Good Practice Guide (GPG) 44 helps you choose the authenticator that will give you the right level of protection for your service.

• From: Cabinet Office and 1 others
• Updated: 14 May 2020

Follow this guidance to understand how to become a .gov.uk Approved Registrar

• From: Central Digital and Data Office
• Updated: 6 July 2023

When you need to prove and verify someone’s identity, you must get evidence about them. A vouch is one of the types of evidence you can collect.

• From: Government Digital Service
• Updated: 22 October 2020

This good practice guide (GPG 46) relates to establishing the identities of organisations or individuals acting on behalf of those organisations.

• From: Cabinet Office
• Updated: 10 October 2013

A simple guide to understanding and describing the trustworthiness of autonomous systems and associated artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms.

• From: Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
• Updated: 1 December 2021

Opportunity to license Dstl technology: game that can be used to help improve cyber resilience.

• From: Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
• Updated: 31 May 2018

Follow this guidance if you’re responsible for choosing, buying and managing Software as a Service (SaaS) tools in your organisation.

• From: Central Digital and Data Office
• Updated: 22 February 2019

Digital technology is at the heart of building back better from coronavirus, playing a vital role in improving internet safety and transforming the economy

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and 1 others
• Updated: 21 December 2021

This guidance explains why and how public sector organisations should move to modern network solutions and away from legacy networks with information on standards you need to follow and case studies.

• From: Central Digital and Data Office
• Updated: 23 May 2022

Find out what a .gov.uk Approved Registrar does, how to choose one and information about pricing.

• From: Cabinet Office and 1 others
• Updated: 6 March 2024

Find out how the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) domain management team collects and uses personal information.

• From: Central Digital and Data Office
• Updated: 26 May 2023

What you can and cannot do when you help someone you know create a GOV.UK One Login and prove their identity.

• From: Government Digital Service
• Updated: 19 April 2024

All digital services and technical infrastructure must be built to comply with the Government Cyber Security Standard

• From: Central Digital and Data Office
• Updated: 23 February 2024

This treaty was presented to Parliament in June 2015.

• From: Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
• Updated: 4 June 2015

This guide (GPG 53) sets out the role of transaction monitoring in helping to counter electronic attacks against online public services.

• From: Cabinet Office
• Updated: 1 May 2013

This treaty was presented to Parliament in April 2021.

• From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Updated: 30 April 2021

Follow this guidance if you’re a civil servant or government contractor to use cloud tools safely.

• From: Central Digital and Data Office
• Updated: 22 February 2019