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Government Functional Standard GovS 007: Security

This functional standard is part of a suite of functional standards designed to promote consistent and coherent working within government organisations and across organisational boundaries.

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GovS 007: Security

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This functional standard is part of a suite of functional standards designed to promote consistent and coherent working within government organisations and across organisational boundaries, and to provide a stable basis for assurance, risk management and capability improvement.

Functional standards are designed to be used as a suite (they cross-refer where needed), and contain mandatory and advisory elements described in consistent language.

If you have comments or feedback about this functional standard, please email GSFinfo@cabinetoffice.gov.uk.

Updates to this page

Published 30 July 2020
Last updated 13 September 2021 + show all updates
  1. Version 2.0 of this standard replaces the previous edition V1.0 dated July 2020. The main changes, which reflect input from users of the previous version are as follows: - a substantial improvement of the incident management section - a greater inclusion of aspects of risk and threat throughout - a stronger technical security section

  2. First published.

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