Securing development in an agile environment
...go hand in hand Done well, agile development and operations go hand in hand with secure systems. Security teams often rely on speed and transparency and this means involving many...
Our web security workshop for GDS developers
We recently ran a one-day workshop on web security for technologists at the Government Digital Service (GDS). Security is a topic where lots of people lack confidence in their skills so we thought it was a valuable area to focus …
Why ‘security says no’ won't cut it anymore
I spoke recently at the Business Reporter’s Data Security in the Cloud event about how security has changed to face the reality of the modern internet era. The old world of assurance and compliance and ‘security says no’ won't cut …
Updating our security guidelines for digital services
Back in 2012, GDS released some security guidelines for government services. Although we’re aware individual services have continually upgraded their own security practices, we’re now updating the guidelines to improve how we secure government services overall. We’ll be making 2 …
Experimenting with Content Security Policy on GOV.UK
The GOV.UK team recently had a firebreak to repay some technical debt, experiment with things we might not otherwise have the chance to, and prepare for how we're going to iterate the site in 2015. I looked at implementing Content Security Policy …
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