{"id":54711,"date":"2015-03-04T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6d70fd930f3a002bbf67fe1befbf7913"},"modified":"2015-03-31T08:34:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T08:34:41","slug":"press-release-protecting-the-uk-from-cyber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=54711","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Protecting the UK from cyber-attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated:<\/em> Removed expired links to cyber job roles.<\/p>\n

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The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl<\/abbr>) is playing a key role in mitigating the risk of cyber-attacks against the UK. <\/p>\n

The risk of cyber-attack was identified as one of the top risks to the UK in the National Security Strategy. In order to help tackle this, Dstl<\/abbr> has been working with several government departments to develop best practice advice for protecting UK critical national infrastructure and cutting edge cyber capabilities for military operations.<\/p>\n

Professor Penelope Endersby, Head of Dstl<\/abbr>\u2019s Cyber and Information Systems Division, says: <\/p>\n

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Cyber security is vital to the nation and defence. Dstl<\/abbr> is proud of its record in helping to defend our critical national infrastructure and also in developing new and novel capabilities to preserve the freedom of our armed forces to operate on a digital battlefield. Our adversaries present a real threat and it is therefore important that we too have the option to achieve military effects through and in cyberspace.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As part of this work, Dstl<\/abbr> is increasing its investment into cyber capabilities with the opening of a new facility to evaluate and assess cyber threats. The Cyber Evaluation and Assessment Laboratory will help streamline cyber assessments to better understand where possible vulnerabilities in cyber defence capabilities could lie, and make recommendations on how to offer better protection. <\/p>\n

Dstl<\/abbr> is already innovating in this area. Last year it was announced that APMG International is working with Dstl<\/abbr> and Ploughshare Innovations Ltd<\/a>, Dstl<\/abbr>\u2019s technology transfer company, to deliver a new Cyber Defence Capability Assessment Tool (CDCAT<\/abbr>\u00ae). Originally developed by scientists at Dstl<\/abbr>, CDCAT<\/abbr>\u00ae is a way for businesses to assess their own cyber defence preparedness, understand where any gaps in defence capability may exist and what mitigations can be applied.<\/p>\n

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\nDstl<\/abbr> Media Enquiries<\/h3>\n
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\n Email<\/span>
\n press@dstl.gov.uk<\/a>\n <\/p>\n

\n Media enquiries<\/span>
\n 01980 658666\n <\/p>\n

\n Out of hours<\/span>
\n 07901 892660\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dstl is working to tackle the threat of cyber-attack against the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56175,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54711\/revisions\/56175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}