Solving an interesting problem with Sender Policy Framework records
The Securing Government Services team found and fixed a curious problem regarding email security
Security
Service Manual testing requirement changes for Internet Explorer 11
In this blog post, we explain the decision behind changing our testing requirements for Internet Explorer 11 in the Service Manual.
Introducing the government’s Chief Technology Officer Council
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Dan Bailey, CTO, CDDO, Posted on:
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CTO Council, Open Source, Open Standards, Security, Tools, Transformation
Central Digital and Data Office's new Chief Technology Officer, Dan Bailey, outlines plans for the Office of the Chief Technology Officer and the CTO Council.
Automatically creating and rotating GOV.UK application secrets
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Bill Franklin - Senior Developer, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Security, Tools
How we reduced toil when managing infrastructure for 50 applications.
Simple things are complicated: making a show password option
Adding a ‘show password’ option to GOV.UK accounts looked like a straightforward task, but it was more interesting and complicated than we expected.
How we fixed a strange ‘week year’ bug
When a pull request failed because of an incorrect creation date, the GOV.UK Pay team investigated the cause. Here’s how they found and fixed the bug.
Wheel of Misfortune: Incident rehearsal for GOV.UK PaaS
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Jenny Sleeman, GOV.UK PaaS delivery manager, GDS and Lee Porte, GOV.UK PaaS tech lead, GDS, Posted on:
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GOV.UK PaaS, Security, Tools
Rehearsing for incidents with replica environments to perform hands on investigations takes a lot of setting up. The GOV.UK Platform as a Service team wanted to see if they could get a lot of the value with a reduced amount of setup time and cost.
The road to closing down the PSN
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Mark Smith, GDS Head of PSN and Cyber Compliance, Posted on:
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Security, Transformation
Government Digital Service is continuing work to support migration away from the Public Services Network. Here’s an update on what we’ve done so far in 2020 and a summary of next steps.
Using Istio routing rules to reduce data sharing risks
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Daniel Blair, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, GDS, Posted on:
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Data, GOV.UK Verify, Security
The GOV.UK Verify team at GDS needed to make sure data was protected when being shared with the eIDAS regulation framework. Here’s how they did it.
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