Government & Public Sector

Short videos designed for academics, based on real events in UK academia to help improve awareness of research security risks and how to mitigate them.

The Think before You Link campaign, on which the TBYL App is based, can help keep you, your colleagues, and the country safe from being targeted by malicious profiles online

Tailored guidance for public sector staff to help increase awareness of indicators of potentially dangerous situations involving hazardous chemicals and other suspicious activity

NPSA have released new election protective security guidance on protecting pedestrian queues

The intelligent, co-ordinated promotion of protective security provision to the hostile.

Increase awareness relating to fraudulent documentation and improve the vigilance of your security personnel

Auditors are individuals who attend premises and outside spaces with the aim of capturing staff and property on camera, the content from which is often uploaded to social media and video platforms

Guidance aimed at Users and Providers of shared workspaces, offices, coworking spaces and laboratories to encourage basic security practices and enhance your security awareness

Providing guidance for customers wishing to utilise the benefits of UAS to protect sites and assets

Physical and personnel security measures for major events require specific consideration due to their dynamic and complex character.

This page provides owners and operators with security advice for the installation, operation and contracting of locker banks’

NPSA's innovative app allowing users of social media and professional networking sites, to identify the hallmarks of fake profiles used by foreign spies and other malicious actors

There are several reasons why organisations might need to assess their security culture. NPSA’s Security Culture Tool is an online, self-serve tool that supports organisations in doing so.

If you're new to the topic, get started here with this helpful insider risk overview

Aimed at academics who are involved in international research collaborations, this provides advice and guidance on some of the main challenges presented when working or travelling overseas.

It is important that you understand the risks associated with deploying these technologies, whether they relate to location sensitivities, data protection considerations or privacy concerns

This guidance contains advice on how organisations can defend themselves against malicious emails that use social engineering techniques

This series is for anyone working in the election space, including but not limited to central or local government officials, candidates, campaigners, returning officers and polling station staff

When developing any requirements for blast protection, it is important to decide which weapons and delivery method need to be addressed

Organisations may use search and screening measures to detect specific items and materials entering (or leaving) their buildings and sites

Screening people and their belongings at entry points helps reduce the likelihood of explosive devices, weapons, and other hazardous or prohibited items being brought into buildings or sites

NPSA has developed a bespoke tool to help security managers in the UK obtain a realistic estimate of the cost of losing a critical asset

This guide provides information and impetus to those responsible for integrating Hostile Vehicle Mitigation (HVM) into the public realm, in order to manage the threat from terrorist vehicle attacks

NPSA identified a need for test methods that evaluate baseline performance of products suited to screening applications in high footfall locations.

The guide helps risk owners, and their security advisors, to understand and manage the risk to building occupants, people outside the building and other assets resulting from damage to building facades caused by the blast effects of an external improvised explosive device (IED)

This document supplements the NPSA Standard by providing a method for testing external doors, non-glazed panels and non-loadbearing walls under blast loading from external IEDs and assessing the damage and hazard to people

NPSA recommends that products required to protect against a firearms attack are tested at an accredited test centre in accordance with the BS EN standards

Managing the risk of emplaced threats should be a key security requirement when designing, building, and fitting-out premises.

This guidance note is to assist the building owner, security manager and facility manager in selecting a design threat and ensuring that suitable products are used to mitigate the threat

This guidance note is to assist the building owner, security manager and facility managers to ensure that suitable bullet resistant glass (BRG) is selected to mitigate the threat and that have been certified as meeting the required standard

This guidance note is to assist the building owner, security manager and facility managers to ensure that suitable bullet resistant glass is selected to mitigate the threat and that have been certified as meeting the required standard

Guidance note on measures to improve the blast resistance of glazing

A summary of the different types of curtain walling systems that exist and where these are typically used

Guidance covering a wide range of topics that will help keep your public premises and events safe and secure, intended both for security managers and other managers whose responsibilities include security

Guidance for organisations’ senior leaders, highlighting the importance of senior leadership in achieving effective security

The UK’s thriving science and technology sector is at risk of being compromised by certain states for their technological, economic, political, and military gain. Secure your success

Protective security advice to safeguard those working in the UK’s democratic institutions who may be targeted by state actors

Protected spaces are locations within a building where occupants and other assets have enhanced levels of protection against the effects of blast.

Sensitive information and assets, whatever their form, must be appropriately protected from creation through to verified destruction.

Vehicle-borne threats range from vandalism to sophisticated or aggressive attack by determined criminals or terrorists

Electronic attack of physical security systems is the means of carrying out a localised cyber-attack specifically on the security system. This can be to corrupt data, open a portal or disable alarms.

Secure rooms are often used for the storage of sensitive information or large assets. They are primarily designed to protect against surreptitious attack, but may offer some resistance to forcible entry.

In general terms, secure working areas are areas within buildings or facilities where personnel work with sensitive information or assets.