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Help shape the future of FN4G

Posted by: Agatha Blake, Programme Delivery Manager, CDDO, Cabinet Office, Posted on: 7 November 2022 - Categories: Event, News, Security, Tools
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The Future Network for Government programme is launching pre-market engagement and industry consultation to help determine future ways of working - here the FN4G team explain the plans and announces a launch event.

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Solving an interesting problem with Sender Policy Framework records

Posted by: Terence Eden, Posted on: 11 July 2022 - Categories: Security
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The Securing Government Services team found and fixed a curious problem regarding email security

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Service Manual testing requirement changes for Internet Explorer 11

Posted by: Matt Hobbs, Head of Frontend Development, GDS, Posted on: 16 June 2022 - Categories: Security, Tools

In this blog post, we explain the decision behind changing our testing requirements for Internet Explorer 11 in the Service Manual.

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Introducing the government’s Chief Technology Officer Council

Posted by: Dan Bailey, CTO, CDDO, Posted on: 30 November 2021 - Categories: 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.

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Simple things are complicated: making a show password option

Posted by: Andy Sellick, GDS frontend developer, Posted on: 19 April 2021 - Categories: GOV.UK, Security
A laptop screen showing the sign-in page for a GOV.UK Account with the show password feature.

Adding a ‘show password’ option to GOV.UK accounts looked like a straightforward task, but it was more interesting and complicated than we expected.

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How we fixed a strange ‘week year’ bug

Posted by: Alex Bishop, GOV.UK Pay developer, GDS, Posted on: 24 March 2021 - Categories: Security, Uncategorized
Working on templates on GOV.UK Pay

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.

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The road to closing down the PSN

Posted by: Mark Smith, GDS Head of PSN and Cyber Compliance, Posted on: 8 September 2020 - Categories: 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.

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Using Istio routing rules to reduce data sharing risks

Posted by: Daniel Blair, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, GDS, Posted on: 30 July 2020 - Categories: Data, GOV.UK Verify, Security
Code on a laptop

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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Using multi-stage Docker builds to patch vulnerable containers

Posted by: Dan Jones, developer for Cyber Security, GDS, Posted on: 29 June 2020 - Categories: Open Source, Tools

The Cyber Security team at GDS discovered it was using a vulnerable container. Here’s how the team fixed the issue and made its clean container publicly available.

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Signposting technology security

Posted by: Claire Ashworth, Technical Writer, CDDO and Lewis Dunne, Senior Policy Advisor, CDDO, Posted on: 24 March 2020 - Categories: Tools, Transformation
A screenshot of the updated Technology Code of Practice point on security

We’ve updated our security guidance in the Technology Code of Practice so it helps teams build security into their projects from the start.

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