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.
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.
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.
Using multi-stage Docker builds to patch vulnerable containers
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Dan Jones, developer for Cyber Security, GDS, Posted on:
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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.
Signposting technology security
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Claire Ashworth, Technical Writer, CDDO and Lewis Dunne, Senior Policy Advisor, CDDO, Posted on:
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Tools, Transformation
We’ve updated our security guidance in the Technology Code of Practice so it helps teams build security into their projects from the start.
NCSC explores potential security opportunities that can come with using the GDS cloud lock-in guidance
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Tom March, GDS Lead Technology Advisor, Andrew A, Cloud Security Research Lead, NCSC and Jamie H, Senior Security Researcher, NCSC, Posted on:
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Tools, Transformation
Security researchers from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) expand on the topics of data portability, native cloud services and security associated with cloud lock-in.
Introducing our cloud lock-in guidance and case study
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Tom March, GDS Lead Technology Advisor and James O’Neill, GDS Senior Technology Policy Advisor, Posted on:
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News, Transformation
The Government Digital Service has published the first part of our new suite of cloud guidance, covering provider lock-in. We’ve also published a case study on cost optimisation at the Home Office.
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