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.
Security
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.