Resilience tools for UK organisations
Free cyber security, assurance and continuity tools from GOV Assured to help UK organisations prepare, protect and prove their resilience, with a live view of the UK threat picture.
Practical, free-to-use tools for UK organisations, from Cyber Essentials readiness and Secure by Design to business continuity planning. Every GOV Assured tool is listed in the apps directory.
A live view of the threat: actively exploited vulnerabilities, recent UK security news and the latest UK advisories. Updated automatically.
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Recent UK-linked victims appearing on ransomware leak sites: a reminder of who is being hit, and why backups and continuity planning matter.
Source: ransomware.live (UK-tagged victims, newest first).
The work follows the tools: assessment, governance of design and change, continuity planning, architecture references, and practice.
Self-assessment against the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework v4.0. Readiness questions across the five Cyber Essentials control areas. Secure by Design statements of applicability, API controls mapped to classification tiers, penetration-test scope and rules of engagement, and a prioritised view of defence gaps for a selected threat group.
Submissions for the Solution Architecture Board, Technical Design Authority, Architecture Review Board, and Change Advisory Board, with a RAG status and a document export. Control choices can be recorded against the data, stakeholders, technologies, and laws in scope.
Guided business continuity plans for UK small and medium businesses, with narrative drafting, a return link, and a Word download, aligned to the Cabinet Office BCP Toolkit, NCSC, and BS 65000. The live dashboard above reports UK cyber threats and ransomware.
Reference material for enterprise security architecture, an OSI model with the controls at each layer, a Secure Access Service Edge view, a DevSecOps pipeline model, and a Splunk operating model. A taxonomy classifies attacks that target people, and a dashboard shows recent cybersecurity reporting.
An exam-style quiz on AI safety, security, governance, and ethics. Crosswords with cyber security and AI security sets. A cooperative incident-response tabletop, and a short piece on social engineering.
GOV Assured is a government and cyber assurance consultancy. This site sets out that work and the tools used to carry it out: assessments, governance packs, continuity plans, architecture references, and practice material. Each tool runs on its own govassured.com address; the full list is in the apps directory.