tScheme Service Approval
tScheme approval is a sign that your trust scheme meets exacting standards, and can be relied upon by users and operators.
tScheme assesses Trust Service Providers against strict criteria. The assessment is carried out by UKAS-recognised assessors – only TSPs that meet the requirements can carry the tScheme trust mark.
Features
- Allows the service to carry the tScheme Trust mark
- Service listed in the tScheme directory of approved services
- Audits are carried out by approved assessors recognised by UKAS
- Approval profiles designed for IdP and PKI Services
Benefits
- Mitigates risk
- Provides independent evidence of services being run as intended
- Demonstrates trust to scheme users
- Independent assurance provide comparison between participants
- Complementary to key standards ISO27001, ISO27018 and ISO9000
- tScheme Approval is open to any organisation / service
Pricing
£4,400 to £20,500 a unit a year
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
5 3 5 8 5 9 5 8 9 2 0 9 7 8 2
Contact
tScheme Limited
Phil Flaxton
Telephone: 08702417497
Email: phil.flaxton@tscheme.org
Planning
- Planning service
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- No
Quality assurance and performance testing
- Quality assurance and performance testing service
- Yes
- How the quality assurance and performance testing works
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TScheme assesses Trust Service Providers (TSPs) against strict criteria. The assessment is carried out independently by UKAS-recognised assessors – only TSPs that meet the requirements can carry the tScheme trust mark. The tScheme trust mark indicates that:
The service has been thoroughly and independently evaluated against rigorous criteria.
The service provider has agreed to keep to these criteria.
The service provider subscribes to the tScheme Code of Conduct.
The service provider will act promptly and fairly to remedy any faults.
The service provider accepts annual renewal and audit obligations.
Security testing
- Security services
- No
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- No
Service scope
- Service constraints
- No
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- Any enquiry relating to tScheme approval of a service will be responded to within one working day.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- No
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- No
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Other security certifications
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
-
Social Value
Fighting climate changeFighting climate change
tScheme supports organisations providing trusted digital services to their customers and provide an independent means of establishing and testing the trust of services to recognised standards. We therefore provide users of these services with confidence that their personal information is appropriately protected, encouraging their uptake and reducing the need for face-to-face transactions and eliminating unnecessary travel.
Pricing
- Price
- £4,400 to £20,500 a unit a year
- Discount for educational organisations
- No