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Backed by funding of £210 million, the UK’s new Government Cyber Action Plan aims to improve both cyber defenses for and ease of access to the nation’s public services. The move was prompted in no small part by the recent disruptions of NHS health care services and Ministry of Defence payroll systems, among other major cyber attacks targeting critical infrastructure sectors and everyday services that Britons rely on....
Jacob Krell, Senior Director: Secure AI Solutions & Cybersecurity, Suzu Labs, notes that it remains an overall positive development for the UK’s cybersecurity posture in spite of these questions: “The plan being proposed is timely given today’s cyber threat landscape. Heightening geopolitical tensions worldwide, combined with the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, are materially changing both the volume and sophistication of cyber attacks. Threat actors continue to operate with increasingly greater capabilities, in an increasingly structured and organized space. Initial access vendors and ransomware creators now go as far as offering 24/7 customer support. This increasingly hostile environment has shifted cyber risk from a primarily technical concern that fell on IT, into a persistent strategic pressure on governments and societies. The line between the public and private sectors is also increasingly thin. Essential public services depend heavily on privately operated companies, meaning failures in one domain quickly affect the other. Treating private sector cybersecurity as a national security concern is therefore both forward-thinking and prudent.”
