In April the Cabinet Office released the results from the last five years of UK cyber-security development policy. The UK Cyber Security Strategy 2011 – 2016 Annual Report acted as the conclusion for the 2011-2016 strategy and cited numerous successes: the launch of the UK’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UK), collaborations with the UK’s Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) and the establishment of the Cyber Essentials training scheme, making basic cyber-security training available to businesses of all sizes.
The next five years look set to be equally positive. There is £1.9 billion of investment set aside as well as a new National Cyber-Security Centre, officially announced on the 26th May by Matt Hancock MP. An “ambitious cyber skills programme” that will “significantly increase” the number of cyber-security experts in the UK is also in the pipeline, alongside plans to connect public and private sector expertise for the benefit of both. This will all be wrapped up within a new strategy, due “later in 2016″.
The cyber-security world is changing fast as the capabilities, inventiveness and also audacity of attackers grow. Distributed Denial Of Service (DDOS) attacks can be bought for as little as US$5 (£3.80), while hacks have become behavioural as well as technical affairs; the government reported in 2015 that 75 percent of large organisations suffered a staff-related security breach. Critical national infrastructure is also now increasingly under attack, with Ukraine and Bangladesh being the most high profile victims of 2016. To ensure the UK doesn’t sit alongside these countries, any five year strategy, due to such an ‘arms race’, must be almost prescient in how it plans for future threats. For the full article click here
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