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<p>The independent review commissioned by the Permanent Secretary was finalised in
May. To protect the department’s security and commercial interests we will not be
publishing this report. I can confirm that the report found that three separate and
unrelated issues occurred at the same time, creating significant business impact.
Steps have already been taken to learn lessons from these incidents. We are working
closely with our suppliers to make sure that diligent care is taken of the department's
infrastructure, accompanied by a more robust internal capability to control and manage
our vital services.</p><p> </p><p>An updated business continuity plan for the department
will be completed this month; that plan will include specific scenarios around significant
IT failure covering one or more of our agencies. We are also reviewing the monitoring
applied to the core networking infrastructure to provide us with earlier sight of
any future problems. There was no evidence of any foul play, and no data was lost
during the incident.</p>
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