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NCSP Robotic process automation guideline
This guideline describes best practice risk management controls for using Robotic Process Automation (RPA) for the purpose of automating manual administrative overheads for National Policing Forces...
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Published:
01/10/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service
Guidance
NCSP MS Power platform guideline v1.0
This guidance is to assist members of the UK policing community of trust in the design, setup and use of Microsoft’s Power Platform service, incorporating Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Pages.
Standard
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Published:
01/10/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
Guidance
NCSP Vetting requirements for policing guideline v1.3
This guidance describes the requirements for access to policing assets including premises, information, and information systems. This document should be read in conjunction with the Statutory...
Standard
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Published:
02/09/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
Guidance
NCSP Security Management standard v1.1
This standard describes the requirements to implement and maintain an effective cyber security management system as required by the National Policing Community Security Policy Framework....
Standard
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Published:
02/09/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service
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NCSP Security Governance standard v1.1
This Standard defines the requirements to implement Security Governance as mandated in the National Community Security Policy
Standard
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Published:
02/09/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
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NCSP Safe Deployment of High Risk Applications Guideline v1.1
This guideline outlines approaches to follow for any use of high risk applications to reduce risk.
Standard
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Published:
01/08/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
Guidance
NCSP Information Security Assurance standard v1.1
This standard defines the requirements to implement Information Security Assurance as mandated in the National Community Security Policy. This document describes the requirements to help implement...
Standard
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Published:
02/09/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
Standards
NCSP Cyber Business Continuity standard v1.2
This standard specifies the minimum requirements regarding cyber business continuity, (Crisis Management & Disaster Recovery). It aims to provide policing with clear direction to implement a...
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Published:
02/09/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
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NCSP Artificial Intelligence & LLM (Large Language Models) standard v1.1
This standard brings together a set of control requirements for the use of Artificial Intelligence in policing. To help the reader in this new area, Artificial Intelligence has been defined, along...
Standard
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Published:
02/09/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
Standards
National Community Security Policy v1.4
This Policy provides confirmation of management intent, in support of the Community Security Principles. This Policy will define how the principles are to be achieved, at a high level. Detail to...
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Published:
02/09/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
Policy
National Community Security Principles v1.4
This Policy provides confirmation of management intent, in support of the Community Security Principles. This Policy will define how the principles are to be achieved, at a high level. Detail to...
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Published:
01/09/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
Principles
National Community Security Policy Framework v1.4
This framework provides all national policing and its partners with a clear guide of how information security policies and standards work in national policing, the objectives of the framework, whom...
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Published:
01/09/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
Policy
PIN & Biometric guideline
The Biometric & Pin Guidance provides recommendations and best practices for securely implementing and managing biometric authentication and PIN systems.
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Published:
28/06/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
Guidance
MCAF blueprint
The purpose of the MCAF blueprint is to provide policing and the law enforcement community with a Police Assured Landing Zone configured for Microsoft Azure services. This document provides...
Blueprints
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Published:
25/09/2024
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Authoring Body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
Police Assured Landing Zone (PALZ) blueprints
The purpose of the Police Assured Landing Zone (PALZ) is to provide a set of reviewed baseline controls that will enable policing to deploy systems onto AWS cloud services. PALZ comes with...
Blueprints
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Published:
25/09/2024
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Authoring Body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
Identity Access Management & Productivity Services (IAM & PS) blueprint
The purpose of this blueprint is to provide assistance to software vendors who wish to provide their products and services to UK Policing. It details how to provide a product in a PDS Identity...
Blueprints
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Published:
25/09/2024
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Authoring Body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
NCSP Cryptography Standard v2.1
This standard sets out the Cryptographic Algorithms to be used within policing. A list of algorithms are provided initially followed by applications and the associated cryptography required for...
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Published:
01/07/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
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System Access annual review
This standard defines the requirements which, when applied, will prevent unauthorised access to national policing IT systems. Areas considered include account management, access control mechanisms...
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Published:
01/07/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service PDS
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Identity & Access Management Standard annual review
This standard defines the requirements which, when applied, will define identity and access management standards to national policing IT systems. Areas considered include account management, access...
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Published:
01/06/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service PDS
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Third Party Assurance for Policing (TPAP)
This Standard is to ensure that all third party suppliers are examined to fully understand their overall security posture and how that may impact upon Policing, ensure they fully understand the...
Standard
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Published:
01/07/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
Standards
Memorandum of understanding in relation to digital evidence sharing between the CPS and XX (police force) TEMPLATE
The purpose of this Memorandum of Understanding(“MOU”) is to detail the arrangements in place to enable the efficient sharing of multimedia evidence (“MME”) by the Relevant Police Force to the...
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Published:
31/05/2024
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Authoring body:
PDS Police Digital Service
Reference Data / Templates
Privileged Access Management Standard
This standard defines the requirements and best practice for privileged access management which should be adopted to manage elevated access consistently and securely across national policing IT...
Standard
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Published:
01/05/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
Principles
Electronic Communications Management Standard
This standard supports the policy set out in the National Community Security Policy, providing requirements for those designing, building and running electronic communications services within...
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Published:
01/03/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
Standards
NCSP People Security Management Standard
This standard is intended to guide the reader through the process of securely managing personnel and embedding security at all stages of the employee lifecycle.
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Published:
01/05/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
Standards
National Digital Case File Standards
The Digital Case File national programme has established standards for how a case file is built and sent to the Crown Prosecution Service through collaboration with suppliers...
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Published:
14/06/2024
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Authoring body:
The Police Digital Service
Standards
NCSP Police Security Classification Guideline V1.0
This guidance is to assist members of the policing community of trust to correctly classify and protect information assets in line with UK Government Security Classification Policy. This guidance...
Standard
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Published:
01/04/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
Guidance
NCSP Overseas IT Access Guidelines v1.1
This guidance describes best practice risk management controls for accessing Policing ICT resources whilst abroad. It also describes the circumstances when forces can make a local decision or when...
Standard
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Published:
01/05/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
Principles
NCSP Bluetooth Guidance v1.6
This guidance provides policing and law enforcement organisations with relevant information regarding risks associated with deploying Bluetooth technology within the workplace, and to enhance the...
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Published:
01/04/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service
Guidance
NCSP Passwords standard V1.1
This Standard supports the principles set out in the National CSP, providing detailed guidance to those implementing and managing PDS & policing systems. This Standard applies to all passwords...
Standard
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Published:
01/04/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service
Standards
Open API Specification
The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) defines a standard, language-agnostic interface to RESTful APIs which allows both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of the service...
API
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Published:
17/04/2024
Physical & Environmental Security Management Standard
This Standard sets out the Physical and Environmental Security measures and considerations to be used within policing. This standard will outline key guidance and advice that should be acknowledged...
Standard
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Published:
01/03/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
Standards
Information Compliance using Microsoft Purview Cyber Guideline
This guidance describes best practice for monitoring, auditing and assuring the Office 365 tenancy minimise the risk to policing information within the Microsoft 365 service.
Standard
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Published:
01/03/2024
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
Guidance
Penetration testing and ITHC Guideline
This guidance describes approaches to delivering comprehensive Testing (using a range of attack types), penetration tests, to support security and risk compliance monitoring
Standard
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Published:
01/02/2024
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Authoring body:
PDS
Guidance
NCSP Secure By Design
This guideline provides guidance on the principles and application of the System Development Standard (Secure By Design) methodology.
Standard
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Published:
08/02/2024
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Authoring body:
PDS
Guidance
Police API Documentation
The link points to data.police.uk where the full list of available APIs relating to Policing can searched. All the data on data.police.uk is made available under the Open...
API
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Published:
12/03/2024
NCSP Application Management Standard v1.0
This Standard is intended to guide the reader through the process of securely managing business applications both internally developed and externally sourced, regardless of whether locally...
Standard
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Published:
01/11/2023
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
Standards
Business Continuity v1.0
This Standard specifies the minimum requirements regarding business continuity. It aims to provide PDS (Police Digital Service) and policing with clear direction to implement a business continuity...
Standard
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Published:
01/11/2023
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
Standards
Vulnerability Management v1.0
This standard supports the policy set out in the National Community Security Policy, providing requirements for those designing, building and running IT services and managing vulnerabilities within...
Standard
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Published:
01/11/2023
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
Policy
NCSP Information Management v1.0
This Standard defines the requirements to implement Information Management as mandated in the National Community Security Policy. It encompasses the management of policing information within the...
Standard
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Published:
01/12/2023
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
Standards
Cyber Threat and Incident Management v1.0 (aka NCSP Cyber Incident Management Standard)
This Standard specifies the minimum requirements regarding cyber threat and incident processes and actions. It aims to provide PDS (Police Digital Service) and policing with clear direction to...
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Published:
01/12/2023
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Authoring body:
Police Digital Service (PDS)
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