Government Departments: Data Protection

(asked on 14th September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking with other Departments to protect the UK from cyber security breaches carried out by (a) Russia and (b) other countries.


Answered by
James Cleverly Portrait
James Cleverly
Home Secretary
This question was answered on 21st September 2020

We are vigilant to these threats, wherever they come from, and ready to defend against them through the world-leading National Cyber Security Centre and investing £1.9 billion through the National Cyber Security Strategy. We have made the UK a hard target and raised the cost for those who would do us harm. We prepare so that we can respond effectively to minimise loss or disruption should they get through. We work closely with allies to deter, mitigate and attribute malicious cyber activity. The best way to deny states and others the opportunity to cause disruption is for organisations and individuals to reduce the chances of their data being stolen, working with our National Cyber Security Centre. As cyberspace is essentially borderless, any mitigations or solutions need to be international - it is a foreign policy issue as much as a technical one.

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