Cyber and Domains Protection
The Cyber and Domains Protection team, part of the Government Digital Service (GDS), offers essential services to monitor and safeguard your .gov.uk domain against cyber attacks.
The services include vulnerability scanning, data sharing, outreach and technical guidance to help resolve identified vulnerabilities.
Vulnerability monitoring service
Basic monitoring
Find out how our free monitoring service feeds in to your DNS Check.
Extended monitoring
Register for free to get deeper checks and daily data sharing.
SIEM Integration
Find out how to receive vulnerability data to your SIEM tool.
Zone file transfer
Share your zone files so we can monitor your complete attack surface.
Domains knowledge base
Provides remediation guidance on how to fix gov.uk domain issues.
About the team
The Cyber and Domains Protection team is part of GDS, which is part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).
The team protects critical government services that depend on the security of the .gov.uk domain.
Our priorities are to:
- manage the .gov.uk registry
- verify applications for .gov.uk domain names
- keep track of all of the .gov.uk domain names
- monitor the .gov.uk domain name space to find issues and help organisations fix them
- monitor other public sector domains to find issues and help organisations fix them
- make sure that .gov.uk domain names are registered with role-based government accounts
- provide organisations with support to solve any other DNS related administration or technical issues
Contact
For any questions about monitoring and vulnerabilities, email support@domains.gov.uk
If you have any questions about registering a .gov.uk domain, email approvals@domains.gov.uk