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date	17/12/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Government Departments use (a) a domain message authentication reporting and conformance cybersecurity system (b) a system for identifying external emails to recipients and (c) a protocol for timely staff reporting of suspicious emails.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	202801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>Active Cyber Defence (ACD) is a collection of services implemented by the NCSC that aim to protect the UK from the high-volume commodity attacks that affect people’s everyday lives. Mail Check is one of these services which enables an organisation to authenticate the email they send so that a receiver can determine if it is genuine or fake using Domain-based Message Authentication Protocol (DMARC). The NCSC plans to implement Mail Check for all 44 Central Government departments - in December 2018 95% were actively using Mail Check and 80% had adopted a basic DMARC policy.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 20/12/2018 15:33:07 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1027225

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government security profession unit has a target for the number of cyber-security professionals it plans to recruit.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	202802
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>Government departments are responsible for ensuring adequate staffing levels to meet the organisational risk it carries. Though no single target number for cyber security specialists exist, the Government Security Profession team will support departments through the delivery of centralised strategy for the recruitment and retention of cyber skills in departments.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 20/12/2018 15:34:56 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt