Written question asked by Brian Jenkins (Labour) on Thursday, 4 March 2004, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 10 March 2004. It was answered by Douglas Alexander (Labour) on Wednesday, 10 March 2004 on behalf of the Cabinet Office.

Cabinet Office

Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) denial of service and (b) distributed denial of service attacks have been recorded on Government department and agency computer networks and websites in each of the last five years. - No figures - not collected centrally.

Answer: Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many (a) denial of service and (b) distributed denial of service attacks have been recorded on Government department and agency computer networks and websites in each of the last five years. [160058] Mr. Alexander: IT infrastructure, including IT security arrangements, is the responsibility of individual departments. The information requested is not, therefore, collected centrally. The Government have a continuous programme of work to identify vulnerabilities and prevent damage to critical national infrastructure, public sector networks and other inter-dependent information systems.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 418 c1513W;418 c1515W; 160058
Session: 2003-04
Subjects: Executive agencies Computer networks ICT Government departments Internet Security Electronic government
Contains statistics: Yes
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