A range of other marketing activity, regional events and industry engagement activities.<\/li><\/ul> <\/p>
The new National Cyber Security Centre, part of the Government\u2019s five-year £1.9 billion National Cyber Security Strategy, will engage closely with small businesses to offer support and advice, including support for the adoption of Cyber Essentials. The Government also works closely with industry to ensure Cyber Essentials is embedded in the advice industry partners, such as trade associations, offer to their members.<\/p>"}
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The Cyber Essentials scheme sets out the basic technical controls which all organisations relying on the internet should have in place to prevent common online attacks. The scheme does not require organisations certified under the scheme to use third parties which are also compliant with the scheme, though this is something the Government would recommend where appropriate.<\/p>
<\/p>
The Government itself requires its suppliers to hold a Cyber Essentials certificate where contracts involve the handling of sensitive data, such as personal and financial information, or the provision of certain ICT products and services. The recently published National Cyber Security Strategy set out a success measure that all Government suppliers will meet appropriate cyber security standards by 2021.<\/p>
<\/p>
In addition, the Government is working with industry to ensure businesses encourage the firms in their supply chains to adopt Cyber Essentials where necessary and appropriate; for example, organisations could work with their supply chains and discuss the best way to add resilience to the end-to-end delivery of a product or service, which could include a third party adopting Cyber Essentials.<\/p>
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Responsibility for security audit rests with the departments contracting the infrastructure. These include a range of system penetration tests, the annual Cabinet Office security compliance review and exercises to test response to incidents.<\/p>
In addition, the Cabinet Office has responsibility for an annual programme of audits of systems which form part of the Critical National Infrastructure. My officials work with departments and specialist organisations to provide exercise assurance on the security of the Government\u2019s key assets.<\/p>"}
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The Cyber Essentials scheme sets out the basic technical controls which all organisations relying on the internet should have in place to prevent common online attacks. The scheme requires software running on computers and network devices to be kept up-to-date and have the latest security patches installed: this is designed to protect against known code vulnerabilities.<\/p>
<\/p>
Although Cyber Essentials is intended to provide a good basic level of cyber security, it does not represent a full cyber risk management regime, which is something set out in the more comprehensive \u201810 Steps to Cyber Security\u2019 guidance. As part of the regular reviews of all cyber security standards, the Government considers whether Cyber Essentials needs to be updated to reflect other risks. The value of Cyber Essentials lies in its simplicity and it is important to balance this against breadth and depth of controls.<\/p>"}
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The Cyber Essentials scheme sets out the basic technical controls which all organisations relying on the internet should have in place to prevent common online attacks. The scheme requires up-to-date malware protection software to be installed on all internet-connected computers: this is designed to detect and disable the malicious software which an organisation might be exposed to via phishing attacks, and prevent users making connections to malicious websites on the internet.<\/p>
<\/p>
Cyber Essentials is a technical scheme and staff awareness training is therefore out of scope; however other pieces of guidance from the Government do recommend this. For example, the \u201810 Steps to Cyber Security\u2019, the Government\u2019s key piece of advice for organisations on managing cyber risk, sets out the importance of user education and awareness.<\/p>
<\/p>
The Government offers a range of free online cyber security training programmes at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/cyber-security-training-for-business. In addition, the National Cyber Security Centre recently published a blog about phishing and user training, which explains that phishing is best tackled by implementing good technical defences and combining these with reasonable levels of user awareness, education and training: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/im-gonna-stop-you-little-phishie<\/p>"}
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The functions of the Government Innovation Group were transferred to the Office for Civil Society and Innovation (OCSI) and Government Digital Service in 2015. On 21st July 2016 the functions of OCSI transferred from the Cabinet Office to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Policy Lab and Business Partnerships remain part of the Cabinet Office resulting in a name change for OCSI, which is now called the Office for Civil Society (OCS). Since 1st January 2016 to date OCS has worked to deliver the Government\u2019s vision of having a more engaged nation, one in which we take greater responsibility for ourselves and for our neighbours.<\/p>
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The Government Transformation Strategy sets out the definition of components, platforms and capabilities on p53 and p54. \u201cBeyond central government\u2019 means use by public or private organisations that are not Ministerial departments, non-Ministerial departments or their associated arm\u2019s-length bodies. This strategy also sets out our ambition to make certain platforms available to local authorities and non-crown public sector bodies, and that we would further consider how the private sector can best reuse these services. GOV.UK<\/a> Verify will be the first platform to pilot use by local authorities and to consider private sector reuse.<\/p>"}
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