The Cabinet Office has published its new “Government Resilience Action Plan”, outlining a strategic approach to enhancing the nation’s preparedness against various complex risks, including pandemics, cyber-attacks, climate change, and geopolitical instability.
The plan revolves around three main objectives: firstly, to continuously assess risks and resilience through improved data-sharing and science-based analysis; secondly, to promote whole-of-society engagement by providing communities, businesses, and critical infrastructure with enhanced tools and training; and thirdly, to fortify public sector systems through clearer roles, stronger local leadership, and independent oversight.
The plan notes further investment in resilient telecommunications capabilities for crisis management response, including recent investment in ensuring our resilient voice capability and exploring opportunities to augment capabilities with the addition of resilient data provision.
The plan mentions a commitment to build a new Cyber Resilience Index (CRI) to provide a cross-sector, holistic overview of cyber resilience for UK CNI to target resilience building efforts, as well as the Home Office’s work to progress their ransomware proposals and the upcoming Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (no specific date given).
Read Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster’s statement to the Commons – Leigh Ingham, Labour MP for Stafford and Alistair Carmichael, Lib Dem MP for Orkney and Shetland, asked about emergency alerts in relation to telecoms coverage, to which the Chancellor replied that the government is committed to working with telcos to ensure everyone is able to access emergency services.
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