It proposes “more integrated, creative and routine” use of powers to tackle ransomware and cyber crime targeting the UK’s national security, including by expanding the cross-agency National Cyber Force. The unit, which brings together military and intelligence personnel under a single command structure, will shortly move to a custom-built headquarters in Samlesbury, Lancashire.
The strategy proposes the formation of a new ‘national cyber advisory board’ to the government, consisting of senior leaders from the private and third sectors; along with a new ‘national laboratory for operational technology security’ which will be charged with testing and providing training on critical industrial technologies. The government will also invest in expanding the research capabilities of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), part of GCHQ, including its new applied research hub in Manchester.
The government will seek to build UK expertise in existing and emerging technologies “vital to cyber power”. It lists as potential priority areas 5G, 6G and other emerging forms of data transmission technology; artificial intelligence (AI), particularly the cyber security…
