Useful links
- CESG [External website]: the UK Government’s National Technical Authority for IA, an arm of GCHQ, responsible for enabling secure and trusted knowledge sharing to help our customers achieve their business aims
- Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) [External website]: provides advice for businesses on protecting their information.
- British Computer Society, The [External website]: An industry body for IT professionals, plays an important role in establishing standards and training needs for information security professionals.
- Business Link [External website]: Provides advice for businesses on implementing and managing information security.
- Centre for the Protection of the National Infrastructure (CPNI) [External website]: Provides protective security advice to businesses and organisations across the national infrastructure
- Get Safe Online [External website]: Provides advice to home users and small businesses on how to stay safe online
- Home Office [External website]: Provides policy and advice on security and computer crime.
- Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC) [External website]: Brings together corporate leaders, public policy makers, law enforcement and the research community to address the challenges of information infrastructure protection.
- Information Commissioners Office (ICO ) [External website]: responsibility for promoting and enforcing the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
- Ministry of Justice [External website]: policy responsiblity for data protection and data sharing.
- National Computing Centre, The [External website]: A membership and research organisation for IT professionals, playing a key role in promoting information security best practice and guidance.
- Parents centre [External website]: Gives advice and support for parents on the safe use of the Internet and other technologies.
- Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) [ External website]: works with police in providing providing specialist knowledge and techniques in fighting organised e-crime.
- tScheme [External website]: An industry–led self–regulatory scheme, which aims to provide a level of assurance to individuals and companies using or relying upon e–business transactions.
