Yesterday, the UK launched its Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UK), BBC News reports, a move in cyber defense strategy that has recently been seen in countries throughout the world.
CERT-UK will operate as a coordinator and information-sharer rather than a law enforcement body to handle cyber incidents of national significance, including threats aimed at banks, power plants, and distribution firms, and “provide advice and alerts on cyber-threats to government, industry and academia[,]” according to BBC.
The decision to implement such a program was sparked by data indicating that approximately ninety-three percent of large UK corporations’ networks had been breached over the past year. Moreover, the article continues, the UK government viewed the team’s formation as a “massive opportunity for [] the UK’s economic recovery.”
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