Government seeking feedback on the effectiveness of its National Cyber Security Strategy

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The government recently launched a “Call for Evidence” as part of its review of cyber security initiatives and regulation to understand the barriers which prevent organisations from improving their cyber security, to gauge the effectiveness of existing cyber security regulations, and to develop a range of policy proposals to address any gaps in its National Cyber Security Strategy.

Organisations belonging to all sectors and of all sizes across the UK are being encouraged to respond to the government’s call of evidence either by completing an online survey or by emailing comments, documents, or suggestions to the government on or by 20 December 2019.

The government’s review of cyber security initiatives and regulation, of which the feedback process is a part, is an exercise in support of it’s National Cyber Security Strategy 2016-2021 whose objective is to make the UK the safest place to live and do business online.

“Good cyber security is an absolute necessity but recent research shows less than a fifth of company Boards understand the impact associated with cyber threat. I hope this review will encourage the industry to think about what government could do to…

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