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<p>Tackling cyber crime is at the heart of the Government’s new National Cyber Strategy
which is supported by £2.6bn of new investment over the three year Spending Review
period. The <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cyber-strategy-2022"
target="_blank">National Cyber Strategy</a> (2022-2025) has set the direction and
ambition for investment and efforts in UK Cyber. Delivery of the Strategy is being
supported by the National Cyber Fund. This programme has allocated investment to lead
government departments to support delivery of the objectives set out in the strategy.</p><p>We
are continuing to invest in law enforcement capabilities at the national, regional
and local levels to ensure they have the capacity to deal with the increasing volume
and sophistication of cyber crime, which includes ensuring officers are being trained
and upskilled.</p><p>The Cyber Aware campaign is a major national advertising campaign
that aims to help businesses (as well as individuals) to protect themselves online.
The campaign empowers and enables the public and micro businesses to understand the
best ways to stay secure online and take the necessary protective actions; and supports
wider efforts to combat the threat at source via the Suspicious Email Reporting Service
(SERs), and through partnership interventions. This year’s campaign was launched on
18 March and is focusing on empowering citizens, microbusinesses and sole traders
to keep their email accounts secure. <a href="https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/cyberaware/home"
target="_blank">Cyber Aware - NCSC.GOV.UK</a></p><p>The Governments’ Cyber Essentials
Scheme provides the basic controls all businesses should implement to protect themselves.
<a href="https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/cyberessentials/overview" target="_blank">About Cyber
Essentials - NCSC.GOV.UK</a></p><p>Cyber Prevent is an important part of our response
to tackling cyber crime. This is an early intervention programme aimed at deterring
individuals from getting involved in cyber crime in the first place, moving deeper
into cyber crime or reoffending and diverting them towards positive directions. Since
2019, all local forces now have a Cyber Prevent capability.</p><p>Further good advice
and helpful products from Government include the 10 Steps to Cyber Security and the
Cyber Information Sharing Partnership (CISP). <a href="https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/10-steps"
target="_blank">10 Steps to Cyber Security - NCSC.GOV.UK</a></p><p>We have also rolled
out Regional Cyber Resilience Centres in each of the nine policing regions, and London.
These are a collaboration between police, public, private sector and academic partners
to provide subsidised or free products and cyber security consultancy services to
help Small and Medium Sized Enterprise and micro businesses protect themselves better
in a digital age.</p><p>We have developed and we continue to innovate on a series
of Active Cyber Defence measures. Active Cyber Defence is the principle of implementing
security measures to strengthen the security of a network or system to make it more
robust against attack. The National Cyber Security Centre’s Active Cyber Defence programme
provides tools that are free at the point of use which help organisations to tackle,
in a relatively automated way, a significant proportion of the cyber attacks that
hit the UK.</p>
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