UK Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act

Statute United Kingdom · 2022

The PSTI Act and its 2023 security regime make three baseline security requirements legally binding on consumer connectable products sold in the UK: no universal default passwords, a published vulnerability disclosure policy, and a published minimum security update period. It is small, it is enforced, and it is the first regime anywhere to make a machine-readable security commitment a condition of sale — which is the model the EU Cyber Resilience Act then scaled up.

Sectoral regime. It binds the industries below; companies outside them generally fall outside it.

Countries

Where this binds. Each links to the providers apis.io has catalogued there.

Regions

Industries

Each links to that industry as a scored cohort — so the question "how ready is this sector for the regime that governs it?" becomes one you can actually look at.

Implemented by these standards

A regulation is the law; a standard is the machine-readable contract that satisfies it. Almost every regime in this catalog restricts an interface rather than requiring one — where a standard exists, it is the part a provider can actually publish.