Cybersecurity
(asked on 19th April 2022) - View Source
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department plans to collate current incident reports and threat information to help create a nationwide measurement of cyber threats.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issues strategic warnings, regular advisories and guidance to individuals, organisations and government. This includes a weekly threat report which is drawn from open source reporting and the NCSC Annual Review which includes details of the cyber threat to the UK and the NCSC’s actions to respond to and deter these threats.
As it responds to nationally significant cyber incidents, the NCSC constantly tracks the evolution in cyber threats and uses the most appropriate mechanism to share updates with stakeholders across the UK. It may be through:
updates on its website, as it did recently in response to the situation in Ukraine;
via published advisories, including in concert with its international partners, such as the recent alert on Russian and criminal threats to critical national infrastructure;
through the Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership (CiSP); or
tailored briefings to key sectors where required.
This is part of a broader approach to Cyber resilience, as set out in the National Cyber Strategy, launched in December 2021, by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (HCWS484). The Strategy sets out how we will ensure the UK continues to be a leading, responsible and democratic cyber power and able to protect and promote our interests in the rapidly evolving online world. This includes our approach to making the UK more resilient to cyber attacks and countering cyber threats. The strategy is available at the following link: