Cyber shadow length6/17/2023 ![]() The past year has seen cyber attacks on hospitals and oil pipelines, schools and businesses, some brought to a standstill by ransomware, and commercial spyware used to target activists, journalists and politicians. The scale and speed of this change – often outpacing our social norms, laws, and democratic institutions – is also unleashing unprecedented complexity, instability and risk. This offers extraordinary opportunities for technologically advanced countries like the UK to pursue their national goals in new ways. In short, cyberspace is now integral to our future security and prosperity. ![]() The global expansion of cyberspace is changing the way we live, work and communicate, and transforming the critical systems we rely on in areas such as finance, energy, food distribution, healthcare and transport. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has accelerated this trend, but we are likely still in the early stages of a long-term structural shift. The Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office Introduction The opportunities and challenges of the digital ageĮxponential advances in technology combined with decreasing costs have made the world more connected than ever before, driving extraordinary opportunity, innovation and progress. Through this strategy, the government is doing more to protect UK citizens and companies, and its international partners – helping realise its vision of cyberspace as a reliable and resilient place for people and business to flourish. Our focus is also on making the public sector more resilient, helping councils protect their systems and citizens’ personal data from ransomware and other cyber attacks.Īs a society, cyber is for everyone. But basic cyber security remains central to our efforts as we toughen up our response to those who attack the UK and our citizens. The creation of the National Cyber Force last year represents a significant step-up in our offensive cyber capability. Our plans for artificial intelligence and data policy will help ensure that we are on the front foot for these technologies, and the steps taken under the cyber strategy will ensure we have confidence in the security and resilience of suppliers and partners. We have all seen the transformative potential of digital technologies but also, as with 5G, their potential to disrupt. UK science and technology will be the engine room of this change, ensuring that cyber continues to be a national economic and strategic asset, that our technology is more trustworthy and is better able to ward off a spectrum of cyber adversaries whose capabilities were, until recently, the sole preserve of nation states.Īs a government, we have committed to spend £22 billion on research and development, and to put technology at the heart of our plans for national security. As lead minister, I am clear about two of its core aims: first that we should strengthen our hand in technologies that are critical to cyber second, that we should limit our reliance on individual suppliers or technologies which are developed under regimes that do not share our values. Taking over where the pioneering National Cyber Security Strategy of 2016 leaves off, this next chapter leads us into a future where the UK is even more resilient to cyber attack. The new National Cyber Strategy is our plan to ensure that the UK remains confident, capable and resilient in this fast-moving digital world and that we continue to adapt, innovate and invest in order to protect and promote our interests in cyberspace. Whether it’s realising the wide-ranging benefits that cyber offers our citizens and our economy as we level up and unite the entire country working with partners towards a cyberspace that reflects our national values or using the full extent of our cyber capability to influence global events, the UK sees cyber as a way to protect and promote our interests in a landscape being reshaped by technology. But nowhere are the advantages of this approach more evident than in cyber. We see this in our response to international health emergencies and in our promotion of Net Zero targets. The United Kingdom is an open and democratic society, whose record in collaboration and innovation underpins our success as an outward-looking global nation. ![]() Taking action through cyberspace to counter terrorism Foreword Major law enforcement cyber crime investigations Stopping cyber crime also means tackling other types of criminal activity Interested in joining the cyber workforce or starting your own business? Law Enforcement’s National Cyber Crime Network
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