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Digital Services: Designing a secure digital service

Good design should: Make services hard to compromise Designing with security in mind…

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Design Principles: Designing to avoid disruption

1. Implement denial of service protections as far upstream as possible Denial of service protections…

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Digital Services: Understanding your service

Before you can design a secure digital service it’s important to understand a…

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Design Principles: Introduction

Digital services provide us with quick, convenient access to a whole range of…

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Design Principles: Making compromise easy to detect

1. Ensure that all relevant security events and logs are collected for analysis. Having the…

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Design Principles: Making services hard to compromise

1. Validate or transform all external input before processing it. Simple data formats…

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Protecting Bulk Personal Data

15 good practice measures for the protection of bulk data held by digital…

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Design Principles: Reducing the impact of compromise

1.  Build your service using a segmented approach.  A system which requires multiple…

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Bulk Data: 4-7 Who has access to your data?

4. All users with access to your data are individually known and referenced….

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Vulnerability management

All modern software contains vulnerabilities; either software defects that require patches to remedy, or…

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