Following on from recent announcements, we thought it might be useful to summarise the general approach of HM Government to cyber security and highlight some of the resources that might be useful to UK-based (and possibly non UK-based) organizations. Cyber security was identified as one of four major threats to the UK in the Government’s National Security Strategy in 2015.
As a quick reminder, the UK government has allocated £1.9 billion towards the problem of cyber security and is approaching it from four angles:
DEFEND – try to stop it happening
DETER – hunt down those that do it
DEVELOP – nurture the talent for the future
INTERNATIONAL ACTION – get other countries to help
The strategy involves the creation of some new organizations, the merging of some old ones and the re-emphasis of a number of existing initiatives. At first sight it may appear to be a confusing mixture of loosely-connected resources so we’ll try to make some sense of how it all fits together.