According to recent findings from the United Kingdom’s recent survey, almost 2.4 million instances of cybercrime are expected to hit the business ecosystem this year. Cyberattacks and attempts at national and business cybersecurity continuously make the headlines, as malevolent tech-savvy individuals use increasingly sophisticated techniques and tools to break the code of the organisations of interest.
Departments in the UK government are an attractive target for cybercriminals from all walks of life, experiencing increased cyber threats as technology evolves and cybersecurity strategies become outdated. As reports from the UK government show, the number of actors able to attempt the cybersecurity of the country’s public and private systems is rising, as well as the risk of facing disruptive activities.
The UK government and the National Cyber Security Centre have recently released new measures to protect citizens, businesses, and healthcare systems from ever-developing cyber threats to prevent similar criminal operations and improve cybersecurity at all levels.
Business leaders are offered additional support from the NCSC to manage risks
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has recently released several enterprise-oriented measures that provide guidance and support to business leaders in their efforts to keep their businesses safe and sound from the ever-growing risk of cyberattacks. The new support package offered aims to help board members handle the ever-evolving online threats, strengthen their cybersecurity efforts, and prevent the legal, financial, and reputational repercussions that successful cyber attempts would bring about. As such, the newly released package may strengthen relations between stakeholders and organisations’ technical experts with the business leaders regarding the issue of cybersecurity, making room for open discussions on the measures to secure processes and prevent threats.
As technology and data are the most sensitive aspects of almost any business, the newly offered support stresses how legal and financial risks should be of no greater importance than cybersecurity risks, accentuating how damaging a successful cyberattack can be to a business’s bottom line and image. The same need to protect clients’ sensitive data is emphasised by experts from www.databreachclaims.org.uk, according to whom you might be entitled to claim compensation from an organisation under the GDPR if the entity fails to protect your data, causing you suffering and loss of all sorts. While it’s true that the victim of the data breach can suffer significant damages, the business involved is not spared from experiencing harsh consequences either. Losing stakeholders and customers are familiar with companies impacted by cyber security breaches, as no entity wants to deal with an organisation that lacks proper security measures and puts its sensitive data at risk. The repercussions can easily translate into shutting the business down, as rebuilding it from the ashes can be challenging once the damage is done.
The UK’s newly introduced cybersecurity measures enhance cybersecurity in the government’s IT systems
With the rising threat of cybersecurity attacks, local and federal governments worldwide strive to implement effective measures to shield governmental bodies from the imminent risks involved in such dangers. The public sectors are increasingly more pressed by flaws in data security strategies, considerably growing the costs of data breaches. The UK government is not spared from attempts at accessing, stealing, and compromising critical data from malevolent tech-savvy individuals. There are dozens of reasons why the UK government is a target for cyber attackers, with the highest importance being the large amounts of valuable data spanning categories like citizen information to national security.
In the wake of recent attempts at governmental security, the UK government launched GovAssure, a fresh measure and component of the Government Cyber Security Strategy (CGSS) aimed at boosting the nation’s cybersecurity resilience and preventing successful attacks on IT systems. With the implementation of the new regime, the cybersecurity activity of every governmental department and several organisations at the national level will be more carefully examined using newly-developed and stricter measures. Security audits will be performed annually and more stringently to boost the government’s cybersecurity resilience and assist public bodies in safeguarding their data. Furthermore, the enhanced cyber strategy will provide the needed means to understand better where the security difficulties facing the government stem from and how they can be overcome.
The most recently introduced cybersecurity measures safeguard critical IT systems from constantly growing challenges through several implementations. Third parties will be directly responsible for evaluating the performance of departments to bolster standardisation among them, thus shaping processes and improving responsiveness. Additionally, the Cyber Assessment Framework issued by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) will assess the assurance measures in every governmental department.
The implementations above complete a series of efforts initiated at the beginning of 2022, when the UK government introduced the first CGSS, presenting the most pressing challenges and a plan to enhance national cybersecurity resilience.
UK governments are improving cybersecurity protection for the NHS, and new plans are expected to be released soon
Last summer, the NHS was the victim of LockBit ransomware, which broke the system’s non-emergency phone line. As such, March 2022 ended with the UK Government launching a strategy to enhance cybersecurity in the National Health Service in the wake of persistent calls to prevent cyberattacks in the healthcare system.
The government plans to direct more than £15m in the upcoming two years to defense measures in adult social care, further funding support and training at the local level. The goal is to strengthen cybersecurity within the healthcare system to enhance resilience by the decade’s end.
Five pillars define the new strategy and the main points of interest, with most of the efforts concentrated on improving protective measures against cybercrime, particularly against ransomware attacks like the one experienced in the summer of 2022. So far, a summary has been released on the government’s objectives for the NHS’s cybersecurity ecosystem, with further implementation details expected in the upcoming summer months, outlining the goals for the following 24 to 36 months.
The importance of improving cybersecurity strategies on all fronts is highlighted by the UK Government and NCSC, which are creating plans to provide continuous support in this regard.
