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<p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is playing a key
role in the delivery of the National Cyber Security Strategy, a five-year programme
to transform the UK’s approach to cyber security, backed up with £860m of investment.</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>BIS leads on the “making it safer to do business in cyber space”
objective and has delivered a range of measures to help protect UK business from cyber
crime, including:</p><p> </p><p>· publishing a range of good practice cyber security
guidance aimed at large and small businesses;</p><p> </p><p>· delivering the ‘Cyber
Streetwise’ campaign with the Home Office to help businesses and consumers protect
themselves against online crime;</p><p> </p><p>· launching the industry approved “Cyber
Essentials” scheme which enables businesses to implement a good basic level of cyber
hygiene against cyber threats;</p><p> </p><p>· making over £1m of cyber security innovation
vouchers available to UK SMEs to help them improve their cyber security, and</p><p>
</p><p>· Support for industry initiatives such as Nominet’s ‘Cyber Assist’ pilot service
for small and medium-sized enterprises experiencing cyber attacks.</p><p> </p><p>
</p><p> </p><p>BIS also works with other Government departments and the security and
intelligence agencies to deliver further measures to help protect UK business from
cyber crime, including:</p><p> </p><p>· Creating a national Computer Emergency Response
Team, CERT UK, which works closely with industry, Government and academia to enhance
UK cyber resilience. It provides support to Critical National Infrastructure companies
to handle cyber security incidents.</p><p> </p><p>· Setting up the Cyber Security
Information Sharing Partnership (CISP), part of CERT UK, which enables companies to
share information and intelligence on cyber security threats;</p><p> </p><p>· The
creation of a Government approved list of Cyber Incident ‘Clean Up’ companies which
can help companies respond effectively to incidents and get them up and running as
soon as possible.</p><p> </p>
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