{"id":63904,"date":"2015-11-09T17:30:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T17:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=02b939ddbc5770e46c19bc4cfb4c9d4c"},"modified":"2015-11-09T17:30:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T17:30:49","slug":"speech-secure-digital-transformation-ia15-matt-hancock-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=63904","title":{"rendered":"Speech: Secure digital transformation IA15: Matt Hancock speech"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are many advantages to living in a city. Cities allow for complex trading networks, economic specialisation, jobs, prosperity, a chance to get on. But for most of human history life in a city also involved a high level of risk: from fire, from crime and most of all from disease. <\/p>\n

The point is this: economic progress always creates new risks. No sooner had the first coins been minted than people began to clip off the edges or dilute them with lower value metals. Insider trading is as old as the stock market. <\/p>\n

And once it became possible to store information on a digital network it was inevitable that people would try to break in and steal it.<\/p>\n

You might remember that famous episode of BBC Micro in 1983. The hosts logged in to one of the first commercially available email accounts, only to find it had been hacked on air. And as digital progress has grown, so the risks have grown. <\/p>\n

This is no longer an issue for the IT department. It\u2019s a boardroom issue, a cabinet table issue. <\/p>\n

And here\u2019s why it matters. We have one of the most digitally advanced economies in the world, and the digital economy depends on trust. If people don\u2019t trust that their data is safe they won\u2019t do business online. <\/p>\n

And it matters for government too because we\u2019ve begun to upload the state. We have one of the most digitally advanced governments in the world. And secure networks and secure data are both mission critical for securing public trust in what we\u2019re trying to do. <\/p>\n

The scale of the threat<\/h2>\n

Any response must begin with a clear-eyed assessment of the threat. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look at the evidence. Massive security breaches are happening more often. Sony, TalkTalk, the United States Office of Personnel Management \u2013 these are just some of the more high profile cases. <\/p>\n

What you don\u2019t hear in the headlines is that this is a constant, relentless bombardment. Last year 90% of large businesses reported an information security breach. <\/p>\n

Nor is it just business. On average, 33,000 malicious emails are blocked at the gateway to the Government Secure Internet, every single month. Last summer GCHQ responded to around 200 incidents. This summer it was around 400. <\/p>\n

And the economic damage is growing. For larger companies, the average cost of the most severe breaches starts at \u00a31.5 million, up from \u00a3600,000 last year. <\/p>\n

The real figure may be much higher. One survey found that 70% of UK businesses didn\u2019t disclose their biggest security breach last year.<\/p>\n

The opportunity<\/h2>\n

But it\u2019s not all doom and gloom. I\u2019m an optimist, and just as we\u2019ve tamed city living and currency security I think we are equal to this challenge. <\/p>\n

Again, let\u2019s look at the evidence. We are the country of Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing and Tim Berners-Lee. Today our universities produce cutting-edge research in crypto, network security and information assurance. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re one of the top 5 exporters of security services, with an industry that\u2019s growing at 15% a year. <\/p>\n

And we\u2019re leading the world in the digital transformation of government \u2013 even exporting GovTech as other countries borrow our code and methods.<\/p>\n

Seventy years ago we cracked the Enigma code, at a time when real bombardments were raining down on our cities. It didn\u2019t just help win the war, it also led to huge advances in computer science. <\/p>\n

In securing our defences, we too have an opportunity. Not just to avert disaster, but to grow our economy and make government work better for the citizens we serve. <\/p>\n

So today I want to talk about what we can do as a government, and what we can all do together. <\/p>\n

What we can do as a government<\/h2>\n

I\u2019ll start with government. Our goal is to make Britain one of the safest places in the world to access public services or do business online. <\/p>\n

In 2011 we launched the UK\u2019s first National Cyber Security Strategy<\/a>, setting out how this would be achieved. <\/p>\n

Since then, we\u2019ve invested \u00a3860 million in cyber security. <\/p>\n

That includes:<\/p>\n