Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 23 October 2017 to Question 7512, on cybercrime, how National Cyber Security Centre services will be extended and which public and private sector organisations will be targeted.

Services provided by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), including advisory services and technical services such as Active Cyber Defence (ACD), as outlined in Section 5.1.3 of the National Cyber Security Strategy, do not require payment from public or private sector organisations. Each of these services are being developed to differing timescales with the NCSC issuing communications to public and private sectors at key milestones. The NCSC’s Annual Review, published on 3 October 2017, provided an update on rollout of ACD.