Mentions:
1: None “With permission, I will make a Statement about malicious cyber activity targeting the United Kingdom - Speech Link
2: None Our political processes and institutions have not been harmed by these attacks. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) We have made a lot of changes in the cyber area in the last two or three years. - Speech Link
4: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) What co-operation do we have with our key allies, including examining the extent of the APT31 attacks - Speech Link
Dec. 22 2023
Source Page: Cyber security: guidance for public sector suppliersFound: Cyber security: guidance for public sector suppliers
Written Evidence Dec. 13 2023
Inquiry: Cyber resilience of the UK's critical national infrastructureFound: CYB0008 - Cyber resilience of the UK's critical national infrastructure NCC Group Written Evidence
Written Evidence Dec. 13 2023
Inquiry: Cyber resilience of the UK's critical national infrastructureFound: CYB0017 - Cyber resilience of the UK's critical national infrastructure Darktrace Written Evidence
Asked by: Lord Kempsell (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve the personal and cyber security of high-profile individuals involved in politics, such as parliamentarians, ahead of the upcoming general election campaign.
Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The safety of our elected representatives is essential to the security of our country. Protecting our democratic values and processes is one of the most important duties of government. That is why the Government will take every possible step to safeguard the people, processes, and institutions upon which our democracy relies.
On 28th February the Prime Minister announced the Government was investing an additional £31 million in funding to protect the democratic process and our elected representatives. The funding is being used to strengthen protective security measures for MPs and locally elected representatives over the next year.
Through the funding we are enhancing police capabilities, increasing private sector security provision for those facing a higher risk, and expanding cyber security advice to elected representatives. The investment also enables the expansion of the Operation BRIDGER network, so that every elected representative and candidate is given a dedicated, named police contact to liaise with on security matters, where needed. Through this network all candidates will have access to security briefings in the run up to the General Election.
The funding is accompanied by a new Defending Democracy Policing Protocol, agreed with police to enhance the safety of elected representatives, and protect the UK’s democratic process from disruption. Further information about the Protocol is available on GOV.UK.
Furthermore, the Defending Democracy Taskforce has supported the Westminster Parliamentary authorities and the National Cyber Security Centre to develop and roll out an enhanced cyber security offer for Parliamentarians and their teams to better protect them against cyber-attacks and foreign interference. As part of the £31 million uplift, the Taskforce is now seeking to extend this offer to other elected officials including the Devolved Authorities and is working closely with staff from the Devolved Authorities to do so.
Feb. 12 2024
Source Page: Research on managed service providersFound: Research on UK managed service providers HTML Details As part of the £2.6 billion National Cyber
Written Evidence Dec. 13 2023
Inquiry: Cyber resilience of the UK's critical national infrastructureFound: CYB0009 - Cyber resilience of the UK's critical national infrastructure ADS Written Evidence
Mentions:
1: None provide guidance to organisations and individuals at risk of being targeted to help defend against such attacks - Speech Link
2: None Of course, our political processes and institutions have endured in spite of those attacks, but the cyber - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) We continue to invest to bolster our cyber defences in support of our national cyber strategy. - Speech Link
4: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) we have seen elections in other parts of the world—and there have been some suggestions that we had attacks - Speech Link
5: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) includes technical assistance to the MFA to protect its websites from distributed denial-of-service attacks - Speech Link
Dec. 20 2023
Source Page: UK and partners form The Tallinn Mechanism for cyber securityFound: UK and partners form The Tallinn Mechanism for cyber security
Written Evidence May. 08 2024
Inquiry: Implications of the war in Ukraine for UK DefenceFound: Based on reports of Russia’s potential nuclear attacks at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant