Cyber Security and Resilience Policy Statement to strengthen regulation of critical sectors www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post…

As the NCSC’s Director of National Resilience, when the government announced it was bringing a Cyber Security and Resilience Bill before parliament in July 2024, I considered it a landmark moment in tackling the growing cyber threat to vital services such as water, power and healthcare. That’s why today we welcome the publication of the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology’s (DSIT) Cyber Security and Resilience Policy Statement which sets out a series of legislative proposals that will help tackle the increasingly prolific and diverse cyber threats to the UK.

We are certainly seeing more frequent, sophisticated and intense hostile activity in UK cyberspace, and there is global evidence that critical systems make attractive targets for hostile states and malicious cyber actors.