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 122 modules surface the technical findings the ICO and Cyber Essentials assessors care about — secret hygiene, dependency safety, error swallowing, PII in logs.
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.
The 3 modules most relevant in United Kingdom
A Full scan runs every one of the 122 modules that applies to your repository — these three are the highest-signal for UK GDPR + Cyber Essentials.
logPiiSecurityCredentials, tokens, request bodies and sensitive identifiers logged in plaintext.
secretsSecurityAWS keys, GitHub tokens, Stripe keys, passwords, private keys, DB strings — caught before commit.
webHeadersSecurityCSP / 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 →
secretssecrets module catches hardcoded credentials before commit; the ICO treats committed secrets as a textbook Article 32 failure when they appear in a breach notification.
logPiilogPii flags logger calls that dump request bodies, headers, cookies, sessions or sensitive identifiers — the leakage path most often cited in ICO enforcement notices.
webHeaderswebHeaders 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.
dependenciesdependencies module flags wildcard versions, 'latest' pins, deprecated packages and missing lockfiles across npm / pip / Bundler / Composer / Maven / Gradle.
envVarsenvVars 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 compliance auditor, and it offers no SOC 2 compliance scan and no penetration testing. It reports code-level findings; any SOC 2, HIPAA or ISO audit 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
Pricing
Starting at $29 USD — one-time, charged via Stripe at checkout.
Try it on your own repo
$29 Quick scan, no signup. One-time charge per scan — no subscription required (Continuous, $49/mo, is optional if you want every push scanned).
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