UKCountry-specific compliance

GateTest for United Kingdom

UK GDPR and the NCSC's Cyber Essentials scheme set a high bar for software shipped to UK customers. GateTest's 91 modules surface the technical findings the ICO and Cyber Essentials assessors care about — secret hygiene, dependency safety, error swallowing, PII in logs.

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What devs in United Kingdom build with

Stack and host shapes we see across the United Kingdom dev market — GateTest is tuned for all of them.

Popular stack

Node.jsTypeScriptPostgresStripeNext.js

Popular hosts

AWS London (eu-west-2)VercelCloudflare

The 3 modules most relevant in United Kingdom

Every United Kingdom scan runs all 91 modules — these three are the highest-signal for UK GDPR + Cyber Essentials.

logPiiSecurity

Credentials, tokens, request bodies and sensitive identifiers logged in plaintext.

secretsSecurity

AWS keys, GitHub tokens, Stripe keys, passwords, private keys, DB strings — caught before commit.

webHeadersSecurity

CSP / HSTS / XFO / CORS misconfig across Next.js, Vercel, Netlify, Express, Fastify, nginx.

UK GDPR + Cyber Essentials — what GateTest catches

Each bullet ties a real GateTest module to a specific clause in the United Kingdom compliance landscape. Official source →

secrets

UK GDPR Article 32 — security of processing

secrets module catches hardcoded credentials before commit; the ICO treats committed secrets as a textbook Article 32 failure when they appear in a breach notification.

logPii

UK GDPR Article 5(1)(f) — integrity and confidentiality

logPii flags logger calls that dump request bodies, headers, cookies, sessions or sensitive identifiers — the leakage path most often cited in ICO enforcement notices.

webHeaders

Cyber Essentials — secure configuration

webHeaders reads next.config / vercel.json / netlify.toml / nginx.conf and flags CSP unsafe-eval, wildcard CORS with credentials, HSTS below 180 days, missing X-Content-Type-Options — the headers Cyber Essentials Plus testers actually check.

dependencies

Cyber Essentials — software updates / patch management

dependencies module flags wildcard versions, 'latest' pins, deprecated packages and missing lockfiles across npm / pip / Bundler / Composer / Maven / Gradle.

envVars

UK GDPR Article 25 — data protection by design

envVars cross-references .env.example with actual process.env reads and flags NEXT_PUBLIC_* / VITE_* / REACT_APP_* client-bundled keys — exactly the 'designed-in' leak Article 25 is about.

Honest limitations

GateTest is a code-quality + security scanner — not a SOC 2 / HIPAA / ISO auditor. We catch the technical findings auditors look for, but the audit itself needs a qualified human assessor.

·GateTest is not a Cyber Essentials certification body — we produce the technical evidence; you still need IASME or a certified assessor for the certificate.
·Post-Brexit, UK GDPR and EU GDPR diverge in narrow areas; the findings here are written against UK GDPR specifically.

Who hires GateTest in United Kingdom

→London fintech preparing a Cyber Essentials Plus assessment

→UK gov supplier needing technical evidence for a G-Cloud framework

→DTC retailer holding UK GDPR data residency requirements

Pricing

Starting at $29 USD — paid via Stripe in your local currency.

Quick

$29

4 modules

Full

$99

All 91 modules

Scan + Fix

$199

+ AI auto-fix PR

Forensic

$399

+ pair review + exec summary

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