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Cyber priority

by Mark Rowe

The Government sees tackling cyber crime as a top priority, so Karen Bradley, the Home Office minister responsible for serious and organised crime, and heading the UK Government’s work on cyber crime, told a conference in London.

She was speaking to a financial services cybercrime summit on July 15 at the America Square Conference Centre. She told the event that every internet user needs to think about the way they act online, whether they are daily users or not. She said: “Protection is vital in the fight against cyber crime, but attacks will unfortunately still happen. So what can you do if you are attacked? We need you to share what you know.”

She went on to describe the Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership (CISP), that she said ‘provides a secure space for companies to share information on cyber threats, and to work together to protect their systems, which means businesses can take action to mitigate their vulnerability to attack. But the information is only as good as the information you, as industry, share. Its success is driven by you.

“CERT-UK, the UK’s national Computer Emergency Response Team, launched this year, and now houses the CISP. This will further build on the success of the CISP, and add in an international element for its information and analysis function. And CERT-UK will be working collaboratively with industry, government and academia to enhance UK cyber resilience. It works closely with critical national infrastructure companies, providing guidance and advice as well as helping those companies to respond to cyber incidents.

“Cyber criminals are organised, highly skilled and numerous. But look at the wealth of resources, skills and experience we have in front of us, in business, law enforcement and across government. As a group we have incredible expertise, thousands of highly skilled individuals and a vast amount of information. We can get ahead of cyber criminals. We can stop them. We just need to break out of our silos and work collaboratively, and cleverly.”

For the speech in full visit – https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/karen-bradleys-speech-to-the-finance-services-cybercrime-summit.

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