A Comprehensive Guide to the UK GCSS &
NCSC’s CAF
How prepared is your business when it comes to GCSS/CAF?
This guide provides an overview of the UK Government Cyber Security Strategy (GCSS) and the NCSC’s Cyber Assurance Framework (CAF), focusing on their importance for information security professionals.
With an increasing emphasis on supply chain security, these frameworks set clear guidelines for organisations to bolster their resilience against cyber risks. By aligning with the GCSS and CAF, organisations can enhance their defences, ensure compliance, and better manage third-party risks, all while contributing to a more collaborative and secure cyber environment.
Don’t just learn what these frameworks mean, learn how to put them into action. This guide will help you take practical steps to implement them, so you're prepared for any future regulations and ahead of the curve on supply chain security.
Complying with the GCSS and CAF isn’t just a tick-box exercise - it’s a smart way to stand out. This guide will help you demonstrate to public sector clients that you take security seriously, manage supply chain risks more effectively, and boost your chances of winning business by staying competitive in procurement bids.
Our framework is built to comply with a range of government frameworks & regulations. You can download the Risk Ledger framework, along with a clear mapping to the UK GCSS/CAF, making it easy to identify & ensure compliance, strengthening your supply chain security.
What you will learn:
Chapter 1: Overview
Understand the core pillars that support these frameworks, the role they play in the government's wider cybersecurity strategy, how do the adapted CAF profiles affect different public sector bodies & what the objectives of these frameworks are.
Chapter 2: Supply Chain Security in the GCSS & CAF
Why supply chain security is a core focus of the GCSS, why securing the supply chain is both essential & difficult, how the GCSS promotes a comprehensive approach and what "Principle 4" means for your organisation
Chapter 3: Key challenges with complying with the requirements
Understand and get actionable advice on overcoming challenges such as: Restricted budgets & limited resource, how to engage supplies, breaking down silos in TPRM & obtain supplier information quickly and at scale when emerging threats appear.
This guide explores the supply chain security aspects of the UK Government Cyber Security Strategy (GCSS), which places strong emphasis on managing third-party risks to protect public services and critical national infrastructure. While securing public sector supply chains is essential to improving overall cyber resilience, it remains one of the most complex challenges due to the size and diversity of government supplier networks.
By acknowledging these difficulties, the GCSS lays the groundwork for a more structured and comprehensive approach to supply chain cyber security across the UK public sector. If you have any questions please get in touch.
