UK government admits years of cyber policy have failed, announces reset

In an unusually candid admission on Tuesday, the British government acknowledged that its years-long approach to its own cybersecurity was flawed and warned it will be impossible to meet a previous target of securing all government organizations from known cyber vulnerabilities and attack methods by 2030.

Describing numerous failures in how Whitehall currently defends its own digital systems, the government presented a new Government Cyber Action Plan as a major policy reset to protect public services. It comes ahead of a relaunched national cyber strategy, which will be called a National Cyber Action Plan, to be published later this year.

The document was presented to Parliament by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and concedes that the current system of accountability has left much of the British government vulnerable to cyberattacks, with responsibilities for risk “unclear at all levels of government,” including across the supply chain.

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