Asked by: Bridget Phillipson (Labour - Houghton and Sunderland South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps have been taken since publication of the National Cyber Security Strategy to ensure that government departments are adequately protected from cyber-attacks.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
We have strengthened government’s cyber resilience through the adoption of our National Cyber Security Centre’s Active Cyber Defence measures, migration away from insecure legacy or unsupported IT systems and the safe adoption of cloud services. We have established a security profession that will continue to deliver a pipeline of cyber security talent to departments.
Cabinet Office will shortly issue new minimum Cyber Security Standards to all central Government departments ensuring comprehensive protection from cyber attacks.