Better late than never

gchqThe UK Government, yesterday, announced their cyber security strategy, as part of a revamped all encompassing national security initiative. For many people it may have prompted the question, ‘I thought we would have already had this already?’ Well we did not, but it is all in hand now. The new cyber security minister (Yes, we do have one),  Lord West commented that it is not that the UK has been left exposed to cyber threats from other countries to this point in time. He did go out of his way to reassure that the UK government has already faced down cyber attacks from foreign states such as Russia and China.

Two  new bodies will be established in the coming months as part of the strategy. A dedicated Office of Cyber Security in the Cabinet Office will co-ordinate policy across government and look at the legal and ethical issues as well as the relations with other countries. The second body will be a new Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC) based at GCHQ. This will bring people together from across government and from outside to get a better handle on cyber security issues and work out how to better protect the country, providing advice and information about the risks

So there we have it. We have shiny new groups to go out and battle the national cyber threats -  we wish them well!

June 26, 2009 | Filed Under Security, Uncategorized 

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