Secure for Society helps digital businesses demonstrate responsible security, privacy and digital practices — with a trustmark that can be publicly verified.
Certification services at SecureForSociety.com
SFS Trustmark
Secure for Society™
Security
Privacy
Accountability
Scan to verify
Example Digital Services
example.com
VERIFIED PILLARS · Security · Privacy · Accountability
The Digital Trust Gap · Why it exists
Can you tell which digital services you can trust?
Every day we use websites, apps and digital businesses without knowing how seriously they take security, privacy or responsibility. People should not have to be cybersecurity experts to understand whether a digital service is taking these things seriously.
Without SFS
With SFS
Clear and verifiable.
What we look at
The SFS trustmark represents a broader approach to digital trust — starting with security and extending to privacy, accountability and responsible digital practices.
Digital security and safeguards that protect the service and its users.
Assessed
Responsible handling of personal information and privacy practices.
Assessed
Clear responsibilities, transparency, contactability and mechanisms for addressing concerns.
Assessed
Responsible digital practices
User Safety & Fairness
Assessed
Accessibility
Assessed
Sustainability
Declared
How it works
A digital service is evaluated against the SFS framework — covering security, privacy and accountability.
The result connects to a public registry. A trustmark with QR code links directly to the live record.
People can independently check the trustmark and its current status. No specialist knowledge required.
Digital trust should be easy to understand and easy to verify.
Public verification
Every trustmark connects to a public registry so its status can be independently checked.
Open the Public RegistryRegistry at SecureForSociety.org/registry — launching soon.
Registry Entry
● ACTIVEExample Digital Services
example.com
Sample demonstration data only
Continuous verification
Alive, not a photograph.
The SFS model is designed around recurring checks so that trust status can remain connected to the current state of a digital service.
Trustmark Issued
Assessment passed
Re-Scan
Recurring automated checks
Framework Check
Criteria re-verified
Public Registry
Status updated live
Trustmark is current and valid.
Criteria no longer met — mark paused.
A trustmark should not simply represent a frozen moment in time.
The everyday digital economy
SFS is designed for organisations that build and operate the digital services people use every day.
Websites · Digital products · Growing businesses
Applications · SaaS platforms · Digital products
Schools · Clinics · NGOs · Community orgs
D2C · App makers · Online businesses
An initiative of MDIF
Secure for Society connects digital trust with MDIF's wider mission of making modern digital innovation safe and beneficial for society.
Helping people build stronger digital safety awareness.
Using digital-trust insights to understand emerging risks and opportunities.
Turning digital trust into practical knowledge for communities.
The SFS Framework is published as an open public-good resource, while the wider certification model supports MDIF's education, research and awareness mission. Learn more about MDIF ↗
Build a safer digital society
Understand the framework. Verify a trustmark. Build better digital services.
Certification services at SecureForSociety.com