Following years-long delays in the United Kingdom bringing forward new cybersecurity legislation, what seems to be an increasingly exasperated National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) called on Monday for the country to adopt a strategic policy agenda to tackle the growing risks. Although the NCSC — a part of the cyber and signals intelligence agency GCHQ — is not a policymaking body in the United Kingdom, its latest blog post is explicit in setting out the need for more political attention on cybersecurity. It was co-written by Ollie Whitehouse, the agency’s chief technology officer, and Paul W, its principal technical director. Whitehouse has repeatedly warned that the technology market is broken and failing to incentivize building resilient and secure technology, and argued that regulation and legislation are not keeping pace with technology change.
UK cyber agency pushes for ‘strategic policy agenda’ as government efforts stall (Alexander Martin – The Record)
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