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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (a) Ministers and (b) officials of his Department have met representatives from China to discuss possible threats to web security.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (a) Ministers and (b) officials of his Department have met representatives from China to discuss possible threats to web security.
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (a) Ministers and (b) officials of his Department have met representatives from the EU to discuss possible threats to web security.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (a) Ministers and (b) officials of his Department have met representatives from the EU to discuss possible threats to web security.
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (a) Ministers and (b) officials of his Department have met representatives of the US Administration to discuss possible threats to web security.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (a) Ministers and (b) officials of his Department have met representatives of the US Administration to discuss possible threats to web security.
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which (a) elected officials and (b) civil servants of his Department have responsibility for its cyber security.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which (a) elected officials and (b) civil servants of his Department have responsibility for its cyber security.
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) staff of his Department and (b) consultants have been employed in cyber security roles in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) staff of his Department and (b) consultants have been employed in cyber security roles in each of the last five years.
Within Cabinet Office, the Cyber and Government Security Directorate (CGSD) is responsible for ensuring delivery of the National Cyber Security Strategy. At any one time approximately 45 full time equivalent staff in CGSD work directly on cyber security. There have been no consultants employed in cyber security roles within CGSD over the last 5 years. At various times CGSD has employed secondees from the private sector.
There are other roles in Cabinet Office teams which work partially on cyber security as part of broader policy and security issues. Details of exact numbers of roles and responsibilities over the last five years could only be determined at a disproportionate cost.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many (a) staff of her Department and (b) consultants have been employed in cyber security roles in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many (a) staff of her Department and (b) consultants have been employed in cyber security roles in each of the last five years.
In May 2015 the Cyber Security unit moved to DCMS from the Department for Business and Industrial Strategy (BIS).
The department does not retain details centrally that would allow us to identify employees who worked in cyber security roles so the information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, following the Government's press release dated 1 March 2016 on cyber security training for businesses, how many businesses have completed the free online training courses to help protect against cyber threats and online fraud since March 2016.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, following the Government's press release dated 1 March 2016 on cyber security training for businesses, how many businesses have completed the free online training courses to help protect against cyber threats and online fraud since March 2016.
Between its launch in September 2014 until February 2017, 88,520 unique users had participated in the ‘Responsible for Information’ online course for small and medium sized businesses.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2017 to Question 68395, what assessment he has made of any potential security risks arising from component, platform and capability reuse beyond central government of GOV.UK (a) Notify and (b) Pay; and what steps the...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2017 to Question 68395, what assessment he has made of any potential security risks arising from component, platform and capability reuse beyond central government of GOV.UK (a) Notify and (b) Pay; and what steps the...
In accordance with the HMG Security Policy Framework, all GDS products, including GOV.UK Notify and Pay, are subject to an ongoing, through-life information risk management activity to ensure that we identify information security risks and treat them proportionately and cost-effectively.
As part of this ongoing activity, risk assessments and security checks (‘IT healthchecks’) based on National Cyber Security Centre guidelines are carried out by independent experts and Privacy Impact Assessments are used to assess the potential impact to any personal data being processed.
Security considerations form an integral part of the pilots we are undertaking to explore how GOV.UK Pay, GOV.UK Notify and similar products can be made available to the wider public sector.
Risk mitigation activities may include the implementation of, or changes to, staff clearances, procedures, processes, software source code, service architecture, release process and monitoring or alerting as required to effectively treat risks where they exceed tolerance.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to learn from the cyber and information warfare experienced in Ukraine over the last 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to learn from the cyber and information warfare experienced in Ukraine over the last 10 years.
The Government is acutely aware of the need to learn lessons from other countries' experiences of hostile cyber activity and information operations. This is factored into our National Cyber Security Strategy, the latest version of which was published in November 2016 and can be found on gov.uk. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cyber-security-strategy-2016-to-2021
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2017 to Question 68394, if he will place in the Library a copy of the auditing schedule pro-forma issued to Departments to provide guidance on day-to-day digital auditing.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2017 to Question 68394, if he will place in the Library a copy of the auditing schedule pro-forma issued to Departments to provide guidance on day-to-day digital auditing.
An auditing schedule pro-forma is not issued to departments but detailed guidance on the security of digital infrastructure, audit and penetration testing is freely available to all Government organisations on the National Cyber Security Centre website, available at www.ncsc.gov.uk
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2017 to Question 64527, when the next regular review of all cyber security standards will be conducted.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2017 to Question 64527, when the next regular review of all cyber security standards will be conducted.
The Government keeps the material relating to cyber security standards for which it is responsible - such as the Cyber Essentials scheme - under regular review and updates it as and when required.
For example, following industry and customer feedback, the requirements for the Cyber Essentials scheme were recently updated and can be found at:
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/requirements-it-infrastructure-cyber-essentials-scheme
The vast majority of technical standards are owned and driven by industry, for example the ISO 27001 range of standards on cyber security. These standards are usually global in nature, and governments are part of the debate amongst many industry voices when it comes to reviewing and/or amending a given standard.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will lay before the House the results of each wave of the National Cyber Security Tracker survey from its inception to the present.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will lay before the House the results of each wave of the National Cyber Security Tracker survey from its inception to the present.
Cyber Aware is HMG’s public awareness and behaviour change initiative on cyber security, developed by private and public stakeholder partners and coordinated by the Home Office’s Research, Information and Communications Unit. It is designed to make the UK a safer place to interact and do business online by increasing individual and SME adoption of safe online behaviours.
The impact of the Cyber Aware campaign on behaviours is evaluated through a range of measures, including regular quantitative tracking managed by an independent research agency. The principal purpose of these results is to inform the ongoing development of the campaign.
Cyber Aware is currently assessing options and the feasibility of publishing research results from 2017/18 onwards.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment the Government has made of the current level of threat to democracy in the UK from cyber attacks, propaganda and subversion by hostile states; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment the Government has made of the current level of threat to democracy in the UK from cyber attacks, propaganda and subversion by hostile states; and if he will make a statement.
The first duty of Government is to safeguard the nation, and we treat the security of our democratic processes extremely seriously.
Our system of paper balloting and hand counting means UK voting mechanisms do not lend themselves to direct electronic manipulation. However, the Government has in place a number of measures to protect the integrity of the electoral process from malign activity, including from cyber attack.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) offers UK organisations, including political parties, access to the best cyber security advice and support to help them meet their responsibility to protect their information and prevent cyber attacks from all possible threats.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Price on 6 March (HL5447), what assessment they have made of concerns for child security and privacy presented by the marketing of My Friend Cayla dolls in the UK.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Price on 6 March (HL5447), what assessment they have made of concerns for child security and privacy presented by the marketing of My Friend Cayla dolls in the UK.
The Government is aware of reports that some internet-connected children’s toys potentially pose a risk in terms of cybersecurity. As with all internet connected devices, the quality of these products varies.
The cyber security of the UK is a top priority for the Government. Manufacturers of internet-connected devices should ensure those devices have appropriate security measures built in and seek to ensure emerging technologies are secure by default.
Where internet-connected products are collecting personal data, organisations that process that personal data in the UK must comply Data Protection Act’s (DPA) eight data protection principles.
These include requiring personal data to be processed fairly and lawfully; to be accurate and up-to-date; not to be kept for longer than is necessary; and to be processed in accordance with the rights of the data subjects under the DPA. Failure to comply with the Act is an offence. Further information about these obligations can be found on the ICO’s website at:
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Government plans to ring-fence a proportion of the £1.9 billion funding as part of the National Cyber Security Strategy to support small and medium-sized enterprises to adopt the latest cyber security technology, including the Cyber Essentials scheme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Government plans to ring-fence a proportion of the £1.9 billion funding as part of the National Cyber Security Strategy to support small and medium-sized enterprises to adopt the latest cyber security technology, including the Cyber Essentials scheme.
The £1.9bn of transformational investment from 2016 to 2021 supports the realisation of the thirteen objectives set out in the National Cyber Security Strategy. Although funding is not specifically ring-fenced towards any of these objectives there is investment available which will be used to support small and medium-sized enterprises.
The new National Cyber Security Centre has a dedicated Wider Economy and Society team which will provide bespoke support and advice for small and medium-sized firms. This will supplement a number of our existing programmes, including the Cyber Essentials scheme designed to protect SMEs from the vast majority of internet-borne threats, and the Cyber Aware scheme which offers simple, practical advice to small businesses and consumers.
Cyber-attacks are growing more frequent, sophisticated and damaging. The government transformation strategy will ensure that government protects all of its services and products from cybercrime, and will ensure that all systems are designed with cyber-security and appropriate privacy safeguards in place.
Cyber-attacks are growing more frequent, sophisticated and damaging. The government transformation strategy will ensure that government protects all of its services and products from cybercrime, and will ensure that all systems are designed with cyber-security and appropriate privacy safeguards in place.
What recent assessment his Department has made of the effect of the Government Transformation Strategy 2017 to 2020 on cyber security.
I am grateful to the Minister for that answer. Can he reassure us that as the transformation strategy, for very good reasons, puts more and more of our personal data—on our taxes, on our health and so on—online, none of those data will be at risk of ending up in the wrong hands?
I am grateful to the Minister for that answer. Can he reassure us that as the transformation strategy, for very good reasons, puts more and more of our personal data—on our taxes, on our health and so on—online, none of those data will be at risk of ending up in the wrong hands?
I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for making that point. Central to what we are doing is protecting not only the information that government requires to be kept confidential, but, as importantly, the information that citizens require to be kept confidential. That is partly why gov.uk Verify has been designed so that it protects citizens’ data in the inquires that they make of government.
I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for making that point. Central to what we are doing is protecting not only the information that government requires to be kept confidential, but, as importantly, the information that citizens require to be kept confidential. That is partly why gov.uk Verify has been designed so that it protects citizens’ data in the inquires that they make of government.
I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for making that point. Central to what we are doing is protecting not only the information that government requires to be kept confidential, but, as importantly, the information that citizens require to be kept confidential. That is partly why gov.uk Verify has been designed so that it protects citizens’ data in the inquires that they make of government.
I am grateful to the Minister for that answer. Can he reassure us that as the transformation strategy, for very good reasons, puts more and more of our personal data—on our taxes, on our health and so on—online, none of those data will be at risk of ending up in the wrong hands?