ITsafe (Get Safe Online) Website

This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the ITsafe (Get Safe Online) website. [Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive].

[Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive using the links listed below (for a general explanation of these parallel links, please see the Arrangement field)]:

ITsafe (http://www.itsafe.gov.uk/).

ITsafe (Get Safe Online) (http://www.getsafeonline.org/).

IT Safe (Get Safe Online) (https://www.getsafeonline.org/).

Please see information at Divisional level.

This series contains more than one link to the 'snapshots' of this website. For some websites, the URL may change periodically. Despite this change to the URL these websites are part of the same record series as they represent the department or organisation's presence on the web at the time. Occasionally, more than one domain URL to the same website may run in parallel creating an overlap.

See also: CAB 257

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ITsafe was a government initiative launched in February 2005 as a major IT security initiative aimed at protecting small businesses and home users against hackers and viruses. The service had two main goals:

To restore consumer and small business trust in ecommerce, which had been affected by reports about phishing and other forms of online identity theft; and To protect internet-reliant parts of the critical national infrastructure (CNI), such as government web sites, banks and transportation, from electronic attacks and hacking by criminals and terrorists.

The service was intended to provide small businesses and home users with tried and tested, easy-to-understand advice on protecting computers and phones. The Cabinet Office Central Sponsor for Information Assurance initially ran the service on a daily basis, with the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre providing security alerts. THe service was launched by the Home Office.

In October 2005, 'Get Safe Online' was launched, led by the National High Tech Crime Unit (NHCTU), with the backing of several government departments and the support and sponsorship of many companies. This was intended as a UK-based campaign and national initiative to teach citizens about basic computer security and internet privacy.