Building and operating a secure online service
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Guidance for organisations that use, own, or operate an online service who are looking to start securing it.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 9
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Information security
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Guidance for organisations that use, own, or operate an online service who are looking to start securing it for organisational planning, review and training. NCSC guidance is advisory and should be applied to the organisation's own risks and obligations.
Contents
- Introduction
- Managing your risk
- Assurance
- Identity and access management
- Securing your service
- Secure development and design
- Platform and server security
- Network and service security
- Data Security
- Secure disposal of data
- Data in transit
- Secure administration
- Supply chain
- Support
- Operational Security
- Security testing
- Source links
Source and licence
National Cyber Security Centre
AttributionNational Cyber Security Centre, “Building and operating a secure online service” (2 March 2022), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesAdapted 16 September 2026: converted the official HTML article into neutral text-only DOCX and PDF editions. Preserved article headings, paragraphs, lists and plain-text source-link destinations; normalized web whitespace and typographic punctuation; omitted site navigation, topic and download cards, images, logos, scripts, styles and page furniture.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026